PROFILE: Midtown Lunch’er “Alison”
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 it’s Alison, a media salesperson who wishes we would do a Street Coffee Palooza!
Name: Alison
Age: 35
Occupation: Media Sales
Where in Midtown do you Work?: Rockefeller Center
Favorite Kind of Food: Things I can’t teach myself to cook at home, and that are so much better in restaurants anyway, like Thai, Sushi, and Ribs.
Least Favorite Kind of Food: Anything I had to wait for, pay a lot for, or that left me hungry.
Favorite Place(s) to Eat Lunch in Midtown: Roast Beef and Arugula sandwich at Pret a Manger, the C1 sandwich from Lenny’s, ‘Wichcraft, Koi at the Bryant Park Hotel.
“Go-To” Lunch Place You and Your Coworkers Eat at Too Often? The place I’m happy to admit: The street cart on the south east corner of 53rd and 6th for chicken and lamb combo on rice with both the white and the red sauces. The one I’m more hesitant to admit: the company cafeteria.
Place(s) you discovered thanks to Midtown Lunch? Most of the carts on Street Meat Palooza II. I rallied some friends to try #15 today (NE corner 50th & Park), and we were happy with our combo over rice.
If you could work anywhere (just because of the lunch) where would it be and why? Paris. Where lunch lasts for two hours, takes place away from one’s desk, is often subsidized, and wine is abundant. Also there is a lot of outdoor seating.
Is there anything you’d like to ask the Midtown Lunch readers? Coffee carts! Which ones do you like or especially dislike? I used to work near Lincoln Center, and loved the folks in front of Banana Republic on 67th and Broadway: strong coffee with a great taste, solid egg sandwiches from the griddle, could remember your usual order even when the line was 8 or 10 people deep and people were antsy. I have yet to find a cart in the Rock Center area worth a repeat visit. What are your favorites?
Anybody have a favorite coffee cart they can recommend to Alison? Put it in the comments. And as always, if you would like to be next week’s Profiled: Midtown Lunch’er (or know somebody you’d like to nominate), email editor@midtownlunch.com.
Posted by The ML Team at 11:45 am, April 13th, 2010 under PROFILE: Midtown Lunch'er.
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18 Comments
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She should’ve topped it off with a salad sandwich from Subway!
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nick’s cart on the NE corner of 48th and park right by the exit of grand central terminal is pretty good. Good coffee and pretty good breakfast.
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Eggs Travaganza cart on 52nd & Park for coffee and egg sandwiches.
And at least you didn’t rally to Rafiqis.
Hooray for being a Street Meats lover too!!!!
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good coffee from a cart is an oxymoron
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agreed
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true but there is such a thing as *decent* cart coffee. When my office was on Park ave south and 30th, there was a decent coffee cart on the corner of 29th and park. Now that we’re on 35th the coffee cart I pass SUCKS. So I support a Street-Coffee-palooza!
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FREAK OF THE WEEK
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Nothing again your preference but I can’t believe you said Pret a manger sandwich is your favorite! Ouch, that hurts.
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april fools? oh wait, that was a feww weeks ago…
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BABE OF THE WEEK
What is ‘media sales’?
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Careful Alison, you dont want someone like DocChuck knowing anything more about you……
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I’ve heard that Street Sweets has good coffee.
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Don’t let ’em get to you, Alison. I had Pret for lunch today, and the nicoise salad sandwich was delicious as always.
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You may laugh, but I seriously recommend Burger King coffee (underground concourse at 49th/6th). I believe they use the cold extract coffee, which is a completely non-bitter coffee concentrate mixed with hot water to serve. (You can also do this cold extraction at home.) Try it at least once before you dismiss the suggestion!
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Burger King is supposed to start using Seattle’s Best Coffee. Not sure when though.
what is cold extraction? how ya do it?
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The BK Joe has saved my a$$ on roadtrips more than once.
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I’m actually a big supporter of McDonald’s coffee, but not that McCafe-diabetes crap.
whoa-we’re going to have to teach her where to go for sandwiches.