PROFILED: Midtown Lunch’er “Ruth Reichl” (PLUS Citymeals on Wheels’ “Global Street Food Festival” Ticket Giveaway)
Every Tuesday I turn over the site to a different Midtown Lunch’er for his or her recommendations for the best lunch in Midtown. This week I couldn’t be more excited to have Ruth Reichl, the Editor in Chief of Gourmet Magazine, which just so happens to be the media sponsor of “Street & Savory: A Global Street Food Festival” on Monday night to benefit Citymeals-on-Wheels. The event is in Rock Center and will feature street cart inspired fare by a long list of famous restaurant chefs as well as food from some of our favorite street vendors, like The DessertTruck, The Treats Truck, Red Hook Ballfield Vendors and (the one I’m most excited about) the Los Angeles based Korean taco truck: KOGI BBQ. Get more info about the event, plus register to win a pair of tickets (valued at $1200!) after Ruth recommends her favorite spots to eat lunch in Midtown.
Name: Ruth
Age: 61
Occupation: Eater, Editor, Writer
Where in Midtown do you Work?: Conde Nast
Favorite Kind of Food: There is almost nothing I won’t happily eat.
Least Favorite Kind of Food: The only thing I won’t eat is honey.
Favorite Place(s) to Eat Lunch in Midtown: The Mysore masala dosa, saag paneer, and brinjal bhartha at Minar (on 46th btw. 6+7th.) White rice, chicken, all the vegetables, no white sauce at the Halal Chicken Curry Cart (on 43rd and 6th.) Kalbi, bibimbap, yukgaejang, and soondubu from Kang Suh (on B’way and 32nd.) The spicy tendon from Wu Liang Ye (on 48th btw. 5+6th.) Ma po tofu and twice cooked pork belly from Szechuan Gourmet (on 39th btw. 5+6th.) Spaghetti neri with squid, crudo, fried blowfish tails, grilled fish, fish soup from Esca (on 43rd & 9th.) Chawan mushi with uni and omakase sushi from Sushi Zen (on 44th btw. B’way+6th). Lasagna, pasta, and salads from Insieme (on 7th Ave. and 51st.) And Le Bernardin (on 51st btw. 6+7th) is pure luxury; everything is fabulous.
“Go-To” Lunch Place You and Your Coworkers Eat at Too Often? We order in from Grand Sichuan. I’m addicted to the peppers in black bean sauce.
Place(s) you discovered thanks to Midtown Lunch? Taj Delhi Chat (now called Khodiar Chaat, on 6th Ave. btw. 37+38th) – how did I miss this?
If you could work anywhere (just because of the lunch) where would it be and why? Singapore. Need you ask? Best street food on earth. I could eat carrot cake (no carrots, no cake, spicy not sweet), every day.
Is there anything you’d like to ask the Midtown Lunch readers? Is there any great Mexican food in midtown? After 10 years in LA, I’m always hungry for real Mexican, and I have yet to find it.
Alright… before we get to that- let’s talk Street Food inspired fancy food tasting event! “Street and Savory” takes place on Monday night, June 8th inside Rockefeller Center. To win a pair of tickets to the event, recommend some Mexican food to Ruth in the comments- or wax poetic about what dish you would be most excited to try from Citymeals-on-Wheels’ “Global Street Food Festival”. A complete list of chefs and the dishes they will be serving can be found here. (I’m most excited for Korean tacos from Kogi BBQ Truck in LA, and Donald Link’s boudin from Cochon in New Orleans!)
Tickets start at $600 each, but using this discount link from Serious Eats: New York you can purchase tickets for $450. I know it’s expensive, but all the money goes to a great cause (Citymeals-on-Wheels), it’s tax deductible, and this lineup of food is probably the best you’ll see at one of these events all year long. If you can afford to go, consider buying tickets to support this great charity. If you can’t afford the $450, but you really want to go to the event, and support the cause in some way, call the City Meals on Wheels event line at 212-687-1290. I’m sure they will be happy to try and work something out.
The comments will close, and the winner will be contacted at Noon EST on Friday (6/5).
And as always if you want to be next week’s Profiled: Midtown Lunch’er (or know somebody you’d like to nominate), email me at zach@midtownlunch.com.
Posted: 11:45 am, June 2nd, 2009 under PROFILE: Midtown Lunch'er.
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61…looking good!
And best streetfood….Thai or Vietnamese pissibly Hongkong.
$450 you have to be taking the piss……what are they serving,unicorn?
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pissibly :)….hehehe funny typo
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I love Burrito Box on 9th ave. Amazing grilled chicken burritos that are almost too big to finish and all the free chips and fresh salsa you can handle.
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Kogi bbq, for sure. I told my little brother out at USC about it, and he made sure to tell me how awesome it was every time he had it. grr…
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Ruth, I love all of your books, and if you ever need a companion on your lunch trips to Esca or Le Bernardin, sign me up. For Mexican food, it’s a little far from your office, but definitely check out El Rey del Sabor and just ask them to give you whatever is fresh and delicious that day. They’re so friendly and the food is great. Finally, every seafood dish at the meals-on-wheels event sounds amazing.
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In Midtown, Tehuitzingo on the West Side and Pampano Taqueria on the East Side. I just came back from Mexico last week and vouch that Pampano is close to the street tacos I’ve had while I was there.
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A bit below midtown, but easily accessible at 23rd and 6th is Grand Burrito, a hole-in-the-wall Mexican and pizza(!) place. Pretty authentic stuff (by NYC standards, at least) and they have tortas and huaraches too. Being open 24/7 is another plus!
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Check out the new Fresco Tortillas located at 819 2nd Ave on 44th st. Its pretty solid Tex Mex and very cheap.
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El Rey de Sabor. Never fails.
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For great Mexican try: Hell’s Kitchen 679 9th Ave (between 46th St & 47th St) New York, NY 10036 .. you’ll adore the Duck Confit Empanada!
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I have no Mexican recommendations… but I can wax poetic about trying street food since I rarely eat much street food!!! Kogi BBQ would be totally awesome too since it’s not in NYC (duh). :)
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FREAK OF THE WEEK
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Great lunch picks!
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gotta go with tehuitzingo for inexpensive and tasty. and it’s in the back of a bodega!
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I highly recommend La Paloma on 45th and 9th.
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It’s been a while since the last time I went, so I don’t know if she’s still there, but the tamale lady in front of the Mexican consulate used to be my Mexican go-to place.
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Hey, Ruth, we are building-mates. I work in the poorly dressed upper half. I think we should be friends.
You’re dreaming the impossible dream with the Mexican food. As a co-former Angeleno, the Portuguese have a great word for what we, the Mexican food lover diaspora, suffer from. It’s called “saudade.” That, and we also suffer frequent indigestion. In a pinche pinch I like the carnitas as Tulcingo on 10th, and their soupy-spicy aguacate salsa helps cover the defects.
You seem to share my love of Sichuan. Tried the Dan Dan noodles (extra spicy) from Wu Liang Ye last night and thought they were great. But everything else at Szechuan Gourmet and Grand Sichuan are so much better. Does Wu Liang Ye actually have any good entrees?
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I can’t afford the $450/ticket so I’m commenting.
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Let me second Tulcingo del Valle on 10th and 47th; that’s a pretty good corner generally for Mexican food.
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Dear Ruth,
You seem pretty cool and really nice, but you must be kinda dense, cuz there is a Taco Bell on 8th ave btwn 36th & 37th. Best gorditas ever! …and I’ve been to mexico. -
For the food I’m most excited about at the event, I got to go with the Boudin. I don’t think I’ve eaten it since moving here from Dallas and when done right, what a treat! I’m also pretty pumped for Pellacio’s Pork Belly Satay. Maybe he’ll throw some watermelon on the skewer and save me a trip to Fatty Crab for one of my favorite dishes.
Good Mexican food in NYC is a bit trickier, and that’s after I expanded your options to the entire city (and not just midtown). Tulcingo de Valle is good but the prices are personally upsetting to me. I refuse to pay $11 for a chile relleno from a bodega type establishment. The best Mexican food in the city, in my opinion, can be found in Sunset Park. There are plenty of options out there, I’m particularly a fan of the Torta’s and the Tacos de Lengua from Rico’s Tacos. While the Pambazo at Tacos Xochilmilco isn’t my thing, it’s worth a try. Finally, the best Tex Mex I have found (which means it’s semi decent) is at Maria’s Mexican Bistro on 4th Ave in Park Slope.
Sorry for the lengthy response, I want to win those tickets and I get excited about Mexican food which is my favorite cuisine and unfortunately terribly represented here.
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I’m going even further out of bounds than Tehuitzingo… Go subway lunching and Take the N/R to the L and go to Zaragoza Deli on 13th and Ave A. 1/4 of the size aas Tehuitzingo. If they have tamales, you must partake. If not, hopefully they’ll have goat tacos. At a minimum, its cheap, good tacos, and telenovelas.
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Cesare Casella, Salumeria Rosi Porchetta Toscana so I can take a wiff of his rosmary
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Apparently the El Rey carts are the way to go. I haven’t been to Mexico, I am no expert.
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tehuitzingo is inexpensive and probably the best you will do in midtown, but even so it is not that good. Better to get your mexican fix (and numerous others) on the weekends at the red hook ball fields.
And yeah, it is all about trying the Korean Tacos at the Rock Center event.
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Ruth, you rock! Best Mexican in midtown (west side) is either Tehuitzingo on 10th or Mi Nidito on 8th.
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Dear Ruth,
First I have to tell everyone to check out your newest book “NOT BECOMING MY MOTHER,” which is a great, touching read. I loved it, I gave it to my mother and *she* loved it, and she has now given copies to her mother and sisters. (Guys and girls alike should also check out the very entertaining “GARLIC AND SAPPHIRES”, about Ruth’s career as a restaurant critic in disguise.)
As for Mexican food in Midtown, how about Blockheads? There’s one in Midtown East on 2nd Ave between 50th and 51st, or, better yet, there’s the one in Midtown West on 50th, between 8th and 9th. That one’s right behind the New World Stages, and has a big outdoor seating area where you can get nachos and cheap margaritas before seeing a show. Makes for a great evening. Only downside is that they have only ONE restroom, so don’t have *too* many margaritas.
Like a lot of people, the street food I’d most look forward to are these Kimchi tacos everyone raves about.
Thanks Ruth, and best of luck!
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man I wish I could get some mexican corn in midtown, that would be great!
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Kimchi quesadilla? Sounds both promising and possibly disgusting at the same time!
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Hi Ruth, I love your work! For Mexican I’d say Tehuitzingo is the way to go. I actually like La Paloma for burritos as well, but I’m not sure how authentic they are. But they are tasty.
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Ruth, I loved your Garlic and Sapphires book! Made me want to try more foods in New York.
As for the City Meals on Wheels gala, I’m excited about the soft shell crab po boy and the bahn mi (since I’ve never tried one). Though, I think I’d eat almost anything on that menu.
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El Rey de Sabor
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I’d recommend Tehuitzingo but I also enjoy Toloache.
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The Brown nosing…………..jesus wept.
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Nothing new on the Mexican food, but I’d back up El Rey del Sabor and Pampano (though the latter was closed yesterday due to a “plumbing emergency”). As a side note, this native Texan is constantly looking for good Tex-Mex–pretty much all the Mexican places I like in the city are authentic Mexican, which has its own place in the pantheon of deliciousness, but is different than the type of grease bomb I grew up on. Any recs (not necessarily in midtown)?
As for the event, I’m excited about the boudin and soft shell crab po boy. Went to Jazz Fest a few weeks ago and can still taste the food…
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This may not fall under ‘great’ street food, but it’s fun because she’s selling it from a grocery cart and coolers. The tamales lady in front of the Mexican Embassy that Zach blogged about a while back.
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Bypass mediocre midtown Mexican for lunch and head to Hecho en Dumbo in Brooklyn for dinner. Totally worth the trek and waiting ’til dinner, plus their nightly live entertainment totally adds to the experience!
That being said, when desperate for my Mex fix, Certe’s Mexican Fiesta/Burrito Bar or the Taco salad does the trick. A little outta price range, but the food is always terrific…
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Hi! I agree authentic Mexican is hard to find…BUT, I know of a crazy hole in the wall, only in NY type of place that does it. It actually is a little lunch spot run by Korean food selling a menu that is half-Korean and half-mexican. There is a bunch of adorable Mexican women in the kitchen making up the Mexican portion of the menu, which changes daily. It’s hand-written on a sign by the kitchen window. Sopes, Tortas, other great foods. The chicken tinga is pretty tasty. A former co-worker who grew up in Mexico City verified it’s authenticity. Check it out, I’d love to win the tickets! Thanks!
New York Bakery – 51 W 29th St (btw 6th Ave & Broadway) New York, NY 10001
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mmm kimchi quesadilla sounds delicious,I would like to try that
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I see a bunch of us have the same idea…Tehuitzingo
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When Daniel and Mamacita win….will you all revolt?……you know tea in the harbour…endless poetry…..ric burns making a Docu?
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Miss Reichl you are my food god, keep up the great work!
las poblanitas!!!!
http://midtownlunch.com/2009/05/05/las-poblanitas-is-the-perfect-place-to-spend-cinco-de-mayo/
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Ruth! You rock, just read “Comfort Me With Apples”. My mom also loves you and has some fantasy that you might read my blog. Roosevelt Ave in Jackson Heights is where I get my taco and ceviche fix. But Las Poblanitas and the Tehuitzingo deli also get the job done. Also the breakfast cart people on 33rd and 9th now make an amazing chorizo torta.
I would even eat a Chipotle burrito(ick) to get tickets!!!
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Tehuitzingo for crunchy pig ear tacos and Las Poblanitas for fatty tongue tacos.
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mgillespie, hate to break this news to you, but Blockheads is not Mexican food! Next you’ll be saying that Chipotle serves authentic south-of-the-border delicacies. My god.
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Mexican here is tough. And finding a good fish taco? Nearly Impossible. Tehuitzingo has been thrown out. I like El Centro on 9th and 53rd? And Toloache isn’t terrible…
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wow, how can I go?
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good mexican does not exist in midtown… although i haven’t ventured to the sabor cart yet
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Tehuitzingo does have the advantage of allowing you to buy ballena-sized beers, and will give you cups to drink them on-site.
Cochon is an amazing place in NO, and I love that they have a moonshine section on their menu there. I’d see if they couldn’t make you up some of their fried pig ears w mustard to go with the boudin.
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I love that Nobu’s Mochi Ice Cream is listed in the Hot Off The Street section. Better eat it fast!
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The huaraches from the Red Hook food vendors are always good.
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I just moved to the East Coast from Oklahoma – I can cook you some wonderful Tex Mex!
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Very excited about Korean BBQ vendors. On the hunt for good Mexican Midtown also… Wish Red Hook vendors were in Midtown
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The fried clam roll from 81!! I have been craving fried clams (and had some disappointing ones last weekend) They better be whole belly.
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Being from Texas, I too have never found good mexican in midtown. Thank goodness I’m moving to Austin in July! (yes, I will miss New York, but I’ll be glad to have TexMex back in my life again).
As for the event, I love Julian Alonzo from Brasserie 8 1/2 and can’t wait for the Red Hook food vendors. I’d love to try Kogi BBQ truck, but am admittedly a bit worried about the Kimchi Quesadilla they’ve listed.
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Everything from Aaron Sanchez sounds perfect, and I would never turn down any porchetta or boudin.
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I’m sorry to say that truly great Mexican food will likely remain the stuff of sueños in Manhattan. The best tacos I’ve had in New York are the tacos al pastor from Super Tacos Sobre Ruedes, a taco van on West 96th Street, but I’ve yet to have a mole to make my mouth water anywhere north of the Mason-Dixon line.
The list of items I would be excited to try is almost too long to narrow down, but the Strip House Goose Fat Fries with Gorgonzola Fondue inspires such a finger-licking fantasy that I can already feel my fingertips starting to prune. Frankly, you could fry a newspaper in goose fat and I’d eat it, and you want to add blue cheese on top?? Sign me up!
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@Blitz
I just moved from Austin and I miss it. You’ll get your
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This post certainly bought out the chicks! How can one eat blowfish, but not honey? Unless you have the intestines of an infant. I go to Las Poblanitas, or make the trek up to Tehuitzingo Mexican Deli. I go to Las Palomas if I want something less authentic.
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Aach Pelaccio’s Pork Belly Satay sounds awesome.
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Best spinach burrito hands down is at El Portal on Elizabeth Street. Excellent tomatillo salsa too. Hungry need tickets!!!
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Holy Comments Batman! This post probably had the fastest rate of comments to date.
Which post has had the most comments on ML?
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I can’t afford 450!. I want to try
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Singapore? Despite it being a super-clean city, Yea I need to ask why? Haha. Isn’t street food better in a dirtier city? LOL.
Oh, Carrot cake. You mean this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chai_tow_kwayIt’s similar to fried turnip cakes that they serve for dim sum.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnip_cakeMan, I so wish we had a KOGI here. The lines would be unbelievable. Bring an In ‘N’ Out Burgers too while they’re at it.
I don’t have any authentic Mexican places either since what I usually eat would be considered Tex-Mex.
And no honey? Why not?
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Tehuitzingo’s as good as it gets in midtown, and Sunset Park wins the prize for the five boroughs. Now, about those prizes….
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It’ll take a while to get there, so perhaps you might be lukcy enough to have summer hours and get out early one Friday afternoon (or just play hookie!) and head out to Jackson Heights for Tacos Guicho’s in Jackson Heights (84th St. and Roosevelt Blvd.). Re: fast food tacos in NYC – I’m glad Baja Fresh has made its way here!!!
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Kimchi Quesadilla? As a Korean and a lover of all things quesadilla, this is a combination I can’t miss. Although I have to admit, cheese and fermented cabbage has never topped my list of things to try – but that’s only because it was something I never dreamed up!
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Love your tastes, Ruth!
Mexican in Hell’s Kitchen is sadly tough, but my go-to place is El Centro on 9th Avenue & 54th St. Same owners as Hell’s Kitchen (I think!)… I love the chorizo & goat cheese quesadillas, and the pozoles and chilaquiles are nice. Good margaritas, too (a necessity in my book!).
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Pampano on 3rd Ave and 49th in the basement. Also, since you work next to the 7 train, you can just take it to queens for a long lunch! ;)
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The tamale lady in front of the Mexican consulate. Always hits the spot.
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Come up to 116th St! Tamarindo, horchata, and elotes stands line the streets on Sunday mornings, and the carnitas at Taco Mix may be LA-worthy. If only there were decent carne asada to be found anywhere in this city…
Spicy tendon is such a great yet largely overlooked Sichuanese dish. Grand Sichuan’s version is the best!
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My Midtown “to do” list just multiplied, OctoMom style. Like Blitz, I feel like the best Mexican food of my life happened when I lived in Austin, but only in New York have I had the fun of trying grasshopper tacos–Toloache. The service is refreshing, very relaxed. I’m a loyal Gourmet.com follower/commenter and freelance food writer (which means I totally can’t afford tickets to events like this)–it would be a huge thrill to go to Street & Savory!
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Um…This sounds amazing:
Strip House Goose Fat Fries with Gorgonzola FondueI’m not sure how you’ll pick the winner for this fabulous prize, but I promise, if selected, to eat with fervor, with passion and with the true dedication of a street meat devotee.
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El Rey de Sabor & Pampano Taqueria, hands down.
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I like the Mexican food along Roosevelt Ave. :)
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Pork Belly Satay from Cabrito/Fatty Crab???
Ummmm….yes please!!!
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that citymeals pink is quite shocking! very happy to see donald link on the list among mostly nyc chefs. i wish i had a good mexican suggestion for ruth, but unfortunately i’m still searching myself.
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Mmmmm…fatty crab. That sound crazy delicious!
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definitely tehuitzingo. i like chicken or carnitas tacos. and the huitlacoche quesadilla.
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For regular old California/NewMexico/Arizona Mexican food, I HIGHLY recommend Los Dos Molinas on 18th and park. I know it’s not midtown but when the food is good enough…..
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I don’t know about Mexican in midtown… I’ve only tried El Rey de Sabor once, and it seemed authentic but more pricey than Super Tacos on 96th and Broadway. Anyways, for the street food festival, the kimchi quesadillas sound the most intriguing to me, esp. since I’ve heard so much about the kogi truck in LA and I love both mexican and korean food.
Also, Ruth Reichl! I stopped lurking at ML and registered here just so I could post something in case you would possibly read it. You are the best food writer I can remember reading; I started reading your nytimes reviews/other writing when I was 11, and I still remember the day you left the times — I was in high school, and I think I cried my eyes out reading about it in the dining section, and resented William Grimes for the whole of his tenure before reconciling somewhat with Frank Bruni. Thank you so much for all of those memories :)
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Wow! The amount of comments: OUTSTANDING, yo! Also, Ruth? 61? WOW! I don’t look half as good at 34. I never thought we’d see more comments then the all you can eat for free Sushi Conveyor Belt thread but, again, going with WOW!
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Ruth, ok it’s a “chain” but Baja Fresh just setup their first beach head in NYC at 465 Lex (45th/46th). I am partial having developed Baja in NJ a few years ago but you probably know the brand from your days in CA – for fast-casual, it’s really tasty stuff. Can’t beat the Mahi-Mahi taco.
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Hey! Ok, so this is out of the way but who cares! It is amazing! You HAVE to go to Cafe habana in nolita for some mexican corn! You can take the BDFV train from Rockefeller Center down to Broadway-lafayette st and its not bad of a walk. The address is 17 Prince St. I’ll take you there myself! I’m not a bad looking guy mind you :)
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love to try kogi, please bring a truck to nyc!
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Don’t know if it’s worth the travel. But if you somehow end up in Williamsburg/Bushwick drunk late one night, Grand Morelos (Grand St & Graham Ave) is a great cheap 24 hour Mexican diner/bakery. They have awesome cheap tacos and burritos. I had the pork Al Pastor taco recently which had pineapple in it. It was awesome!
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Another vote for La Paloma. It was my go to burrito place when I worked in Times Square.
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Just read about MidtownLunch in the NYT’s today…and the benefit on Monday. Plus, reading “Tender to the Bone” after hearing Ruth R. speak recently…only problem is reading all of these makes me want to eat!!! Want to try all of the MidTown lunch favorites!
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This blog makes me wish I still worked in midtown!
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grasshopper tacos at toloache on 50th and 8th, does any other place do grasshoppers?
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La Esquina – a steak taco and an order of Moros y Cristianos!
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I can’t believe no one’s mentioned Chavella’s yet. It’s definitely not in midtown, but it’s COMPLETELY worth the hike out to Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. Chavella’s has the best Mexican food I’ve ever had, it’s cheap, and the restaurant itself is unpretentious and friendly. Crisp taquitos with mole sauce, authentic tortas, incredible quesadillas, grilled corn with chipotle mayonnaise and cotija cheese, amazing tacos, micheladas, flan that I could happily eat at every meal and I don’t even particularly like flan… the list goes on. Ruth, please go – you won’t regret it!
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My deaarest “Ruth”
Pray tell … how is it that you can actually see through that matted tangle of hair?
Chuck, Phd
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I wish I had a good Mexican rec for midtown, but I’m still looking myself.
As for the Citymeals-on-Wheels’ “Global Street Food Festival,” what an awesome sounding event and a great cause. I’d love to try Kogi’s Kimchi Quesadilla and Michael Psilakis’Roasted Pork Shoulder Gyro.
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i wish i work in midtown just to try all these food options… my options around where i work are pretty limited.
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I know nothing about Mexican food, so I’m useless in that regard. As for the event, everything sounds pretty incredible but I’d have to say the fried clam roll would be amazing. In all honesty, the snow cone sounds pretty good too…haven’t had one in ages.
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I also recommend Hell’s Kitchen as a tasty restaurant, though I prefer the cheap to-go kind of Mexican.
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I have a special place in me for taco bell so I don’t think I’m the one to be giving mexican recommendations.
And everything at the event sounds too overwhelmingly good to pick just one.
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La Paloma has great burritos on 45th at 9th. Being from Southern California, I’m going to say that’s about as good as it gets :)
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Tehuitzingo is definitely my go to Mexican place. Besides the reasonable prices and good food, the atmosphere always provides a welcome respite from Midtown. The tortas are probably the best thing I’ve had there.
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from LA too… and I miss King Toco and El Torino as much as the next guy.. Honestly.. with NYC Mexican.. you can’t search for the next El Torino.. you simply have to lower your standards… I put Mexican in the same category as In-N-Out..
With that said… for good Mexican here, I second Tulcingo del Valle
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With all that pork and spice and fatty deliciousness, I really want to try Andrea Reusing’s Sno-Cone with Strawberry & Lychee.
And, btw, I think it’s really funny that an ad for honey is placed adjacent to Ruch Reichl saying the only thing she won’t eat is honey!
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Michael Psilakis & Donatella Arpaia, Anthos/Kefi (New York)Roasted Pork Shoulder “Gyro,” Pickled Cucumber & Yogurt
Yum a pork gyro what could be better than that!!!!
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There are many tempting things, but nothing speaks to me more than a kimchi quesadilla
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I’m with Zach. Want to try the Korean tacos from Kogi BBQ Truck.
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Oh dear, if only Fresco Tortillas on 42nd hadn’t been demolished! And yet I want those tickets, but when it comes to waxing poetic, I am too dizzied by longing. Crispy fried clam roll? Fresh cherries and whipped cream? Soft-shell crab po’ boy? I can barely bring myself to scroll down to see what else there is, let alone pick one. I want one of everything, actually. And what could be in a three-minute picnic anyway? But then again, maybe I could be satisfied with one tiny bite of those goose-fat fries with gorgonzola fondue, wow…
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This is LA we’re talking about here so no need to head out to Sunset Park for the only decent mexi food in NYC. Instead point your GPS to El Parian, 1528 W. Pico Blvd., for the best birria tacos in LA, served in homemade tortillas, of course. Done and done.
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KOGI BBQ! My friends just went to LA this past weekend and got to eat at the magnificent truck. Been staring at pictures all day and trying hard not to drool all over my keyboard.
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Sounds like a delicious experience for a worthy cause. Please pick me!
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Kimchee Quesadllias sounds pretty awesome. So does the frankies from the tabla cart.
For mexican, i’m a pretty big fan of Cafe Frida on the upper west. Good brunch!
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the best (and most authentic) mexican food ive had in the city was on the west side of lexington avenue and 105th street…
if i win the tickets i will be thrilled about trying kogi’s spam sliders! my friends back in so cal keep raving about them…
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I want to try KOGI BBQ. My friends in LA swear by the Korean Short Ribs. I would love to attend this event, but my landlord would not be delighted come month end.
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Like Zach, after reading about the Korean taco truck nearly EVERYWHERE over the last year, that is the thing I would most like to try at this benefit.
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Latin Thing is pretty good and not terribly expensive. On 25th & Lex…bit outside midtown but close enough.
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Comments for this post have been closed, and the winner has been contacted. Thanks for entering!
I need to get out more and expand my midtown lunch horizons.