Midtown Lunch

Early word on Indus Express (48th btw. 5+6th) is mostly good.  Full +/- coming soon.  Photo posted to the Midtown Lunch Flickr Photo Group by The Flooz.

Two Starbucks Workers Tortured in Midtown [NY Post]
A Midtown Burger slideshow!!! [Zagat]
Does Bouchon Bakery have the best chocolate chip cookie in Midtown? [Food in Mouth]
CEO Wants Sakae to be [...]

It’s always nice to learn that you’ve inspired others to harm their body with food.  Apparently my piece on Serious Eats about DJ Grocery’s General Tso’s Philly Cheesesteak, inspired the DJ to set up his own food blog.  And while I can’t take credit for his eating (he clearly was doing this long before I [...]

If you haven’t done so yet, tomorrow (Friday) is the last day you can register to win Jennifer Lee’s new book “Fortune Cookie Chronicles”.  To enter, just post your favorite chinese food dish in Midtown as a comment on Jenny’s profile page.  I’ll contact the winners this weekend.  In the meantime, I’ve assembled some Chinese food porn based on some [...]

Midtown is too much ground for one man to cover, so comments, suggestions and emails are always welcome.  Most “discoveries” I make come from suggestions, and the comments are always a great place to see where other people are eating.  Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn’t.  When I was having chest pains last week, [...]

Al Baraka, Midtown’s best only Turkish buffet, is now Kanaat Turkish Restaurant.  The chef, food and lunch buffet are exactly the same, but it is now $10.95 (up from $9.95 before).  The lamb shanks are still on the buffet, so it’s worth the extra buck, but the current trend of lunchtime price increases worries me that [...]

For those people who feel like cutting your generic lunchtime salad up into little pieces somehow makes it taste better, a new Chop’t has opened on 51st btw. 6+7th

Sakae Sushi gets caught shilling [Eater]
First it dumps Chipotle, now McDonald’s is divesting its 33% of Pret a Manger in the U.S. [NRN] 
A guy was stabbed on 45th St. btw. [...]

Every Tuesday I turn over the site to a different Midtown Lunch’er for his or her recommendations for the best lunch in Midtown. Today I’m excited to have Jennifer 8. Lee, journalist and author of “The Fortune Cookie Chronicles”,  my new favorite book for anybody who loves Chinese food (Americanized and/or “authentic”).  It answers every question [...]

Last February I wrote about Pro Hot Bagel, a hole in the wall bagel and cold cuts deli on 56th St. btw. 5+6th, which had sprouted a small Korean food station, and a sushi bar.  The reaction to the food was mixed, but it appeared to be an ok option for people who wanted some cheap fast [...]

Amazingly the Treats Truck is at 45th & 6th today until 3pm.
If this weather doesn’t keep it away, I don’t think anything will!

“Sugar” the Treats Truck returned this week after an extended trip to the shop [Miss Menu]
Treats Truck, Zen Burger, Go Go Curry & Five Guys are nominated for Time Out New York Awards. Go [...]

I am not a huge soup person, but when the weather gets like this it’s tough to resist… so rather then attempt to fake expertise, I asked Midtown Lunch’er Grace, our resident soup expert, to compile a list of her favorite soups in Midtown.  Here’s what she came up with:  
 
Turkish

The Creamy Chicken Soup ($4.95) at [...]