Tortilla Press and masa -- where to get in Queens?

[dagnabbit]

Anyone know where I could get a decent (metal) tortilla press in Queens? And also masa?

Thanks!

[chilindrina]

I got my press at Panaderia Coatzingo on Roosevelt between 76th and 77th. It's a Mexican bakery/dry goods shop. I think at most of the little Mexican groceries in the Jackson Heights/Corona area you can probably find them. There's another good one further up Roosevelt in the 90s, although I'm not sure of the exact cross streets, where they also sell clay bean pots and things like that. For masa you definitely have to go to Tortilleria Nixtamal; I haven't seen or heard of fresh masa being sold anywhere else.

[grisaille]

Re: masa

http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/585545

Tortilleria Nixtamal
104-05 47th Ave.
Corona, NY 11368
[phone]

[dagnabbit]

Oooh, very interesting. Will call that place and if they are selling masa, check it out.

[damon]

Tortilleria Nixtamal is GREAT!

[grisaille]

These threads MIGHT help:

http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/312797

http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/496921

[dagnabbit]

Thanks grisalle. Sounds like masa's hard to find. There's a Mexican grocery in Astoria I'm going to try. (I'm hoping to avoid the high-end places for the press -- I hear you can get a cheap one in a Brooklyn Pathmark -- hoping there's something similar in Queens...)

[dagnabbit]

Oh, I should say I tried Win Depot for the tortilla press, but no luck.