Midtown Lunch

Every Tuesday we 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 Tiffany, a Tax Accountant who loves bread but hates mediocre food.

Name: Tiffany

Age: 25

Occupation: Tax accountant

Where in Midtown do you Work?: Madison & 42nd

Favorite Kind of Food: At the risk of getting tarred and feathered here on ML, I confess that my tastes veer towards the vegetarian side with some seafood. But, in any case, it’s dangerous when I’m near… 1. food I grew up with (Taiwanese and Mexican) – shaved ice & fried tofu! guac! 2. really good, fresh bread of any kind 3. unusual (but delicious sounding) flavor combos – like an incredible miso almond cookie I had recently

Least Favorite Kind of Food: Mediocre food makes me sad.

Favorite Place(s) to Eat Lunch in Midtown: Soup from Devon & Blakely, pizza from Previti (on 41st btw. Lex+Park), falafel from Naya Express (on 3rd btw. 43+44th), halloumi sandwich from Macchiato Espresso Bar (on 44th btw. Lex+3rd)

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We’re putting the finishing touches on the new ML Twitter Tracker (it’s been broken since the authpocalypse last week), and it should be up and running tomorrow.  Until then, here’s what’s going on on twitter this morning…  Schnitzel & Things is on 46th btw. 5+6th, Street Sweets is on Park and 53rd giving away free stuff in a special black and white truck until 4pm (but you already knew that), Cupcake Stop is on 40th and 5th, Frites N Meats is on 52nd and Park, Billy “Mister Softee” Gunz is on 39th and B’way, Quick Stop Kosher is on 33rd and 9th, and 4Food is officially open for business today.  And for the Flatiron Lunchers… Pizza Truck NYC is on 28th and B’way and NYC Cravings is on 24th btw Park+Madison.  We’ll update this post as more info comes in. UPDATES: Rickshaw is on 52nd and Lex as well, and the Treats Truck is on 38th and 5th.

On Friday Lunch’er Hightemp checked in to let us know about Helen’s Rice and Noodles, a brand new Korean(ish) spot just out of bounds (on Lexington and 62nd.)  They have $9 lunch boxes, with your choice of Korean meats or teriyaki, plus bibimbap, kimbap, japchae, soon doo boo, and a list of Japanes stuff like udon, ramen, and sushi.  Here’s what Hightemp had to say about the place…

I had the Spicy Pork lunch box.  Came with a big portion of brown rice, a small cup of miso soup, a small salad and 3 other sides – no choice on the sides.  Its kind of like the system at Pro Korean on 56th but without the completely pre-made boxes (the boxes were prepped with sides but the meats seemed to be cooked to order).  The pork was considerably spicier than Pro Korean and the meat quality was pretty much the same as Pro Korean.  I felt like I got a good amount of food for the price.

They do need to figure out some basics of organization though.  My order took far longer than it should have since only one of the staff members seemed to know what was going on and he kept splitting his attention to the others.   Hopefully they can get there because the food was pretty good.

Check out the menu after the jump…

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Pretzel! The Concrete, from the Theater District Shake Shack

• In a taste of 15 Shake Shack concretes, Midtown scored 2 of the top 3 [FeastNY]
• Robert Sietsema loves the chicken mole enchiladas at Tulcingo del Valle [FitR]
• Joe The Art of Coffee has an off the menu iced chocolate [SENY]
• Curious what the owners of Hello Pasta look like?  Here you go! [Gotham Mag]
• The weirdness that is Schnipper‘s green chile cheese dog [Fork in the Road]
• Check out Miss Softee‘s cinnamon bun special [LWF&D]
• The cobb salad at Beacon’s Side Door is just ok [Fesity Foodie]
• We told you the layering at Moshe’s Falafel is all wrong! [Tasty Eating]
• We need a buttermilk pancake truck in NYC!!! [Midtown Lunch: Los Angeles]

Earlier in the week, we told you how you could help your favorite food truck win $10,000 as part of the Food Network’s Great Food Truck Race Giveaway. If you follow Cupcake Stop, Treats Truck, Mexicue, Calexico, NYC Cravings, Big Gay Ice Cream Truck, Bistro Truck, or Eddie’s Pizza Truck on Twitter or Facebook you know that everybody is lobbying hard for the win. But not every truck is planning on keeping the $10k prize for themselves. Eddie’s Pizza Truck has said they will donate the prize to the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation, while the Cravings Truck has vowed to give away free lunch for a week if they win (200 platters a day for 5 days.) Tough decision. Help a charity? Or help yourself get free food. Or just vote for whoever you think is the best! Either way, the current Top 10 doesn’t have a single New York Food truck. Clearly we need to change that… Vote now. The contest ends a week from today (on 9/10).

The recently reopened Bull Moose Saloon (on 44th btw. 8+9th) has a lunch special that not only leaves some Washingtons in your wallet but also satisfies that Summer thirst. For measly $5.85 you get a cheeseburger cooked to order with hand cut fries and a beer. For those inclined, you can also get 10 crispy hot wings with a beer for the same price. Yes, all this for under $6. Workers on the far Westside rejoice, eastsiders… well.. we’ll give you a moment of silence to mourn…

Ok that’s enough, time for burger porn!

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When I saw Luncher Dan L.’s report in the forums that a new cart had opened up on Fifth Avenue serving Korean Fried Chicken, dumplings and other Korean food, I knew I had to check it out.

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