Midtown Lunch

It’s time for the 4th Annual Midtown Lunch Readers’ Poll. Your nominations are in, and between now and the end of the year we’ll be asking all of you to vote for the best Midtown Lunches in a whole range of categories. You can only vote once per category (so choose wisely), and official results will be posted after the new year.

Is it our imagination or does the coffee in Midtown just get better and better every year? Just a year and half ago, Zach was flipping out about Iced Capp’s from Tim Horton’s (amateur), and now you can get Stumptown from a truck. What a world, what a world. Here are the nominees for best coffee in Midtown:

• Culture Espresso Bar
• FIKA
• Financier Patisserie
• JOE the Art of Coffee
• Joyride
• Macchiato Espresso Bar
• Oren’s
• Zibetto Espresso Bar

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A Pizzacone from Tribeca’s Da Mikele.

Blondie was at The Cookie Takedown Sunday night at The Bell House, while Brownie takes another opportunity to let us know how amazing Four and Twenty Blackbirds is, Ultraclay compares Paris Sandwich to the banh mi places he tried while in Vietnam, and Chris H is a huuuuge fan of the newly opened Danji (on 52nd, btw. 8+9th).

In the rest of the ML Universe… Andrea discovers that pizzacones live on in Downtown NYC, Jamie tries a Vietnamese food truck near Temple U, and I had one of the great Korean lunch specials of all time in Los Angeles.

It’s time for the 4th Annual Midtown Lunch Readers’ Poll. Your nominations are in, and between now and the end of the year we’ll be asking all of you to vote for the best Midtown Lunches in a whole range of categories. You can only vote once per category (so choose wisely), and official results will be posted after the new year.

It’s no secret that when Zach started Midtown Lunch he purposefully extended the southern boundaries of Midtown an extra two blocks to 32nd Street so that he could justify eating in Koreatown (the man loves Korean food!)  Since then Korean food has migrated north, and is now accessible even for those who can’t make it down to 32nd and back to their office in under an hour.  Woorjip has dominated this category every year since we started doing  the reader’s poll.  But Bapcha and Bann Next Door came on strong in 2010.  Could this be the year that Woorjip finally gets unseated? Here are the nominees for best Korean fast food in Midtown:

• Bann Next Door
• Bapcha
• Cafe Duke
• E-Mo
• Pro Hot Korean
• Woorijip

Vote for your favorite after the jump…

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You know it’s the holiday season when ginger treats start popping up. The other day, courtesy of the ML Twitter Tracker, I saw that Treats Truck was packing gingerbread men. Given Blondie and my devotion to all things Treats Truck (if you regularly read our blog, you might have noticed that we’ve reviewed just a few of Kim’s treats…) I had to go check it out. Read more »

It’s time for the 4th Annual Midtown Lunch Readers’ Poll. Your nominations are in, and between now and the end of the year we’ll be asking all of you to vote for the best Midtown Lunches in a whole range of categories. You can only vote once per category (so choose wisely), and official results will be posted after the new year.

Not much has changed in the world of Midtown Indian food this year (unless you include Grill 44 ditching their Middle Eastern food and becoming 44 Curry House.) Our fast food Indian category has been dominated by the Biryani Cart for two years straight, so to give the other guys a chance (and find the best place for Indian food other than biryani and kati rolls) we decided to change things up this year. Here are the nominees for best Indian steam table in Midtown:

• 44 Curry House
• Indus Express
• Joy Curry & Tandoor
• Minar
• Tawa Tandoor
• Utsav Downstairs

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It’s been about 5 months since the launch of Mexicue, and I’ve watched the steady patter of positive and negative commentary since my original assessment, with interest. Noticing they recently came under the good graces of the New York Times, I decided it was time for a re-visit. During my previous write-up, I’d commented that the food doesn’t shy from big flavors, though the portions are restrained and the operations needed a good deal of improvement. As the old saying goes, practice makes perfect, and while these guys still have room for improvement, they’ve certainly come a long way.

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It’s time for the 4th Annual Midtown Lunch Readers’ Poll. Your nominations are in, and between now and the end of the year we’ll be asking all of you to vote for the best Midtown Lunches in a whole range of categories. You can only vote once per category (so choose wisely), and official results will be posted after the new year.

Next to street meat nothing says Midtown Lunch more than falafel, a notion solidified by the fact that the second week of ML’s existence was dubbed “Falafel Week”. A few of those places are still around over 4 years later, but with the arrival of Maoz and Crisp they couldn’t take home the top prize. Will this year be any different? Here are the nominees for best falafel in Midtown:

• Crisp
• Maoz Vegetarian
• Moshe’s Falafel
• Nanoosh
• Naya Express
• Olympic Pita
• Pick a Pita
• Taim Mobile
• Yummy Yummy
• XPL

Vote for your favorite, after the jump…

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