Midtown Lunch

From GTA4. Courtesy of Adam Kuban over at Serious Eats.

You may recognize some Midtown sites in the new Grand Theft Auto 4 [Ed Levine Eats]
A 2nd AQ “Kafe” will be opening Broadway & Central Park South [Eater]
A Voce is Coming to the Time Warner Center… [Diners Journal]
… but it will probably be without Andrew Carmellini [...]

The other day, I was standing in the tiny sandwich shop that is Carl’s Steaks, when I happened to look up at their wall of accolades and spotted the words “grease bomb” in one of the posted articles. With oil gushing out of every bite of the cheesesteak (with whiz) that I was [...]

Fresh off B&J’s free cone day, Baskin Robbins answers with 31cent cones tonight from 5-10pm (Bastards!  It’s not even during lunchtime… What’s that?  It’s to benefit America’s Firefighters?  Oh.  Forget that part about bastards.)  The Ironic Mullet has a list of all the Midtown locations for your post work, pre dinner cone…

Walked by a couple of shuttered establishments yesterday…

Super cheap Chinese steam table, Rong Bao Fast Food, on 38th btw. 7+8th, was mysteriously closed yesterday.  Not sure if this is permanent, but if it is, it’s no big surprise.  Given the choice between Rong Bao, and the newly renovated Ying Du directly across the street (formerly the 38th St. Restaurant [...]

From the Midtown Lunch Inbox… “There is a new mysterious foodcart right beside the roti cart on 46th and 6th Ave. The menu that looks like it was drawn while blindfolded, and there were a pile of people standing in front of the cart, so i couldn’t make out all of the items being offered, [...]

As reported yesterday, today is free cone day at Ben & Jerry’s. At the
8th Ave location, the wait time at 12:15 was 10 mins. Have you gotten
your free cone yet? Post the time of day, and how long you had to wait
below…

Every Tuesday I turn over the site to a different Midtown Lunch’er for his or her recommendations for the best lunch in Midtown.  Todays Lunch’er is Clayton, a Public Relations Specialist who was nominated by his co-worker Kelly:
Clayton is a serious lover of food, has a great sense of humor, and often entertains the [...]

If you love food sold from trucks (and quite frankly, why wouldn’t you?), then you probably have heard of, or seen, the Wafels & Dinges Truck.  Dispensing 2 kind of waffles (brussels & liege), and all sort of toppings (dinges), the bright yellow truck has taken the city by storm, parking in the Flatiron District in the [...]

Tomorrow (Tuesday) is another Ben & Jerry’s Free Cone Day! Lines are long, but they usually move fast, and free ice cream is always worth it. There are 3 participating locations in Midtown to get your free scoop:
 

Rockefeller Center Concourse, Enter at 6th btw. 49+50th (and go downstairs)
8th Ave. btw. 42+43rd
Macy’s, 34th btw. B’way+7th (4th [...]

Alright, I will admit, right off the bat that I don’t actually know if Nanking was any good to begin with. I have never been to any of the other locations of this Chinese/Thai/Mughlai hybrid, but one of my co-workers swears by the Jackson Heights one, and convinced me that based on their [...]