Only one week left until the big party… all proceeds go to benefit the Street Vendor Project. And don’t forget, anybody who buys their tickets before the end of the day on Monday is entered to win a $100 gift certificate to Bon Chon Chicken.
Posted by Zach Brooks at 4:00 pm, June 3rd, 2011 under Midtown Lunch Anniversary Party.
Cer Te’s June Sandwich of the Month. Photo by Chubby Chinese Girl
Posted by The ML Team at 3:45 pm, June 3rd, 2011 under Midtown Links.
If you like to eat, chances are you like to drink (read: a lot of you are freakin’ lushes), so every week our Happy Hour Correspondent “Mamacita” will post about a different bar in Midtown that fits the Midtown Lunch mentality: unhealthy food, not lame (unless it’s lame in a cool way), and most importantly… cheap. Mamacita is taking this week off, so Clay has stepped up to the plate.
Steakhouses don’t often make the pages of Midtown Lunch. There are plenty of them in the area, but few are ever what you’d call a bargain – unless you count Tad’s Steak, which I don’t. (Sorry Zach!) But, when Mamacita told me she’d be out of town and needed a sub for this week’s column, she mentioned that she heard Keen’s gave out freebies during happy hour that might be worth investigating. I was skeptical – not because I didn’t want an excuse to go to Keen’s, but because I’ve never thought of it as a place for a bargain. Still, I’m not one to turn down a chance to freeload, so I stopped in yesterday to take a look.
Posted by ultraclay at 3:06 pm, June 3rd, 2011 under Midtown Happy Hour.
Free Krispy Kreme Alert: "The ONLY Krispy Kreme location in NYC - Penn Station - is participating in National Doughnut Day.... freeloaders engage!!" Anybody else score free doughnuts today? Let us know where in the comments. [via @iamevie]
Posted at 2:15 pm, June 3rd, 2011 | 2 Comments
Despite the trouble that food trucks these days seem to be having finding spots, we’ve still seen our fair share of carts upgrade to food trucks (just this week Jamaican Dutchy announced that they would be launching a food truck on Monday), and obviously a lot of the gourmet food trucks have gone brick and mortar, but truck to cart? That’s a lot more rare. Last year Wafels & Dinges added a couple of carts to their arsenal, and this week Eddie’s Pizza Truck is following suit. That’s right… pizza from a halal style cart!
Check out interior photos of the oven after the jump…
Posted by Zach Brooks at 11:45 am, June 3rd, 2011 under Eddie's Pizza Truck.
Korilla is Taking Over the City: On the ML Twitter Tracker today... Kimchi Truck is on 46th and Lex, Gorilla Cheese is on 48th btw Park+Lex, Big D's is on 53rd and Lex, Schnitzel is on 52nd and Lex, Bian Dang is on 50th btw 6+7th, Red Hook Lobster Truck is on 55th btw. 7+8th, Wafels & Dinges is on 49th and 3rd, and Korilla launches 3.0 today (presumably the one they used on the Great Food Truck Race.) 2.0 is on 37th and Bway.
Posted at 11:35 am, June 3rd, 2011 | 0 Comments
It’s clear that grilled cheese sandwiches are having a moment in New York. Or at least some food entrepreneurs are hoping that’s true. Perhaps this all happened thanks to America’s Next Great Restaurant, where poor Eric was ousted too early and not given time to realize his grilled cheese vision. I bet if he saw what’s happening in New York right now (especially with all these extra dipping sauces), he’d be kicking himself.
Gorilla Cheese is the first of the triumvirate of grilled cheese trucks slated to hit the city this summer. They launched a few weeks ago, but made their first foray into Midtown last Thursday. The line was rather modest when I arrived around 1:00 and it took me only 10 minutes to order and receive my sandwich. That’s quite a turnaround from what Andrea experienced downtown the previous week. Either these guys have finally got their act together or the novelty of buying grilled cheese from a truck has quickly worn off.
Posted by brianhoffman at 10:40 am, June 3rd, 2011 under Gorilla Cheese Truck.
Every Friday our man UltraClay goes south of the ML boundaries in search of a delicious lunch. Sometimes it’s Murray Hill south or the Flatiron District, sometimes Gramercy and everything in between- but we just like to call it Flatiron Lunch.
Today may be the last week day of Madison Square Eats, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t going to be at least one food option left in Worth Square after it’s all over. Calexico, the California-style Mexican cart that won a Vendy back in ’08 and got a rave from Andrea a year ago, is sticking around for at least the next year. They’ll be serving from 11am to 9pm every day – and according to one of the staffers, including a beer license, presumably using the same boundaries as have been in place for Madison Square Eats. I’ve stopped in at Calexico a few times since they arrived in Flatiron bounds, see what it’s all about after the jump.
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Posted by ultraclay at 9:40 am, June 3rd, 2011 under Flatiron Lunch, Mexican.
Lunch’r Mike sent us the heads up that Bread & Olive (45th btw 5th and 6th) is now under new management. The restaurant has been rebranded as Karam, but I paid a quick visit yesterday and the menu seemed exactly as I remembered it (same signage, too with the Bread & Olive stripped off). Any regulars notice a difference in the food? Let us know in the comments.
Posted by Brownie at 8:30 am, June 3rd, 2011 under Bread & Olive.
Posted by The ML Team at 3:45 pm, June 2nd, 2011 under In the Forums.
