If you haven’t heard by now, our very own Korilla BBQ truck will be competing in the second season of Food Network’s Great Food Truck Race. The show premieres on August 14th, and they’ve released a sneak peek of the new season- complete with Korilla getting publicly spanked by Tyler Florence for speeding. Check out the video after the jump…
Posted by brianhoffman at 1:58 pm, July 26th, 2011 under Korilla BBQ Truck, Videos.
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 we’re proud and excited to welcome Lauren Shockey, one of the Village Voice’s restaurant critics, as an honorary Midtown Lunch’er. Her book “Four Kitchens: My Life Behind the Burner in New York, Hanoi, Tel Aviv and Paris” comes out tomorrow, and we’ve got a copy to give away after she gives us her recs for lunching.
Name: Lauren
Age: 27
Occupation: Restaurant Critic and Blogger for the Village Voice and author of the just-released culinary memoir Four Kitchens
Where in Midtown do you Work?: Our offices are on Cooper Square — not in Midtown, I know, I know — but I’m often running all over the city in search of good eating and regularly am in Midtown.
Favorite Kind of Food: Southeast Asian of any kind, but especially Vietnamese, Thai, Sri Lankan, and Malaysian fare. Really, anything that comes from those parts of the world. If I see chiles and garlic and coconut and spices and fresh herbs, I’m down. I can also never say no to raw oysters or lobster rolls, and I have a deep love of pasta with either tomato sauce, white clam sauce, or carbonara.
Least Favorite Kind of Food: I don’t like olives, which is unfortunate when it comes to cocktail parties and dirty martinis but otherwise I can avoid them pretty easily. And I also am not a huge fan of kidneys (I mean, think about their function). Other than that I’m pretty omnivorous.
Favorite Place(s) to Eat Lunch in Midtown: On the West Side, I’m a big fan of Danji – love the sliders (pork ones especially), and the japchae lunch. I also enjoy the sandwiches at Mooncake Foods and the ramen at Men Kui Tei. Can you tell I like Asian food, haha? On the East Side, I Soba Totto is probably my top spot and I go there frequently, especially in the winter for the hot soba. I also think Bi Lokma is great – I’ll get the stuffed grape leaves, the hot yogurt soup, and the meatballs for sure. And if I want something fancier, I’ll head to the Bar Room at The Modern.
Posted by Zach Brooks at 11:35 am, July 26th, 2011 under PROFILE: Midtown Lunch'er.
Island Burgers & Shakes has been a go-to Hell’s Kitchen spot for me for going on 10 years. The back of their menu has always had this long explanation about how their kitchen is too tiny and the electricity to run the fryer/bring the space up to code would cost a fortune so they only serve bagged chips and baked potatoes. Back in January we reported that they finally started serving fries, but I only recently had a chance to go check it out in person. Read more »
Posted by Brownie at 9:45 am, July 26th, 2011 under Island Burgers and Shakes.
If you like Maoz, and don’t mind downloading a free app onto your iPhone, Android or Blackberry, you’ll want to pay attention to this one. Daily Gobble, a new app that gives you cash back from meals at participating restaurants all over NYC, wants to give you a free falafel from Maoz. All you have to do is download their app onto your iPhone, Android or Blackberry. Go eat at Maoz. Upload a photo of your receipt within 24 hours, and they’ll give you up to $6 cash back, within an hour, via Paypal. The deal is available starting today tomorrow (7/27), and goes through August 3rd. Limit one redemption per person. Cannot redeem at multiple locations. Cash redeemed cannot exceed purchase amount, and it cannot be combined with any other offers.
Oh, and while we’re on the subject of Maoz… did you know their new location on 8th Ave. is open?
Posted by The ML Team at 8:30 am, July 26th, 2011 under Maoz Vegetarian.
Shake Shack Gets First Grand Central Approval: This morning the Shake Shack passed their first hurdle to opening a location in Grand Central, with the second round being on Wednesday. The biggest concern regarding them taking over the Zocalo space? "Potential lines in a congested station." Uh... ya think!? [Eater via DNAinfo]
Posted at 3:30 pm, July 25th, 2011 | 2 Comments
It was one year ago that the newest Goodburger (on 8th Ave. btw. 57+58th) opened for business, and to celebrate their first birthday they’re throwing a party. Tomorrow, Tuesday 7/26, they will be serving up $2 milkshakes and $1 burgers from Noon to 6pm, and you can see them blow out birthday candles, and score free cake, at 1pm.
Posted by Zach Brooks at 2:45 pm, July 25th, 2011 under Goodburger.
The Sweetery Truck has teamed up with VISA to give away free ice cream sandwiches and whoopie pies tomorrow and Wednesday. Just use your Visa card at either of their two trucks and score the freebie. Tomorrow (Tuesday) the branded VISA truck with free ice cream sandwiches will be on 23rd and 5th from 10am to 1pm and on Park btw. 52+53rd between 2 and 4pm; and the truck with free whoopie pies (the original Sweetery Truck) will be on 50th btw. 6+7th from 8am to 4pm. On Wednesday, the free ice cream sandwiches will be on 50th btw. 6+7th from 11am to 2pm, and the whoopie pies will be Downtown. UPDATE: Just got some clarification… to claim your whoopie pie, you have to purchase something from the truck using your VISA card. The ice cream sandwiches are buy one get one free (also with your VISA card, natch.)
Posted by Zach Brooks at 1:30 pm, July 25th, 2011 under Street Sweets.
When my lunchtime wanderings lead me to 32nd street, I generally opt for either my longtime love, Woorijip, or my more recent obsession, Food Gallery 32. The other day, however, I walked just a little farther down the block and saw that Miss Korea is now offering $10 dosirak (aka Korean lunch box) that looked ML worthy. Read more »
Posted by Brownie at 11:45 am, July 25th, 2011 under Miss Korea BBQ.
Those of you who work around 53rd and 6th Ave. might have noticed this truck setting up shop today for some event… it’s actually the Bistro Truck, repurposed for a week long promotion to spread the word about turkey. They’ll be giving out free turkey burgers every day this week starting tomorrow, but won’t be in Midtown until Friday (on 52nd and Park). We can’t say we love turkey, but we love free stuff and the Bistro Truck can make anything taste delicious! As for today’s craziness? We were told it was a media only preview event… but who knows? Maybe they’ll start giving stuff away to slackjawed passerbys…
Posted by The ML Team at 10:55 am, July 25th, 2011 under Bistro Truck, Free Stuff.
Sometimes a girl just has to have ramen. Even if it’s the middle of the summer. Even if the weather is oppressively hot. That’s what over air conditioned offices are for, right? The other day when the ramen craving struck, I was feeling too lazy to head for my fav midtown ramen haunt, Menchanko Tei and instead headed over to the closer to home Sapporo where I couldn’t resist ordering the Mabo Ramen ($8.75). Read more »
Posted by Brownie at 9:30 am, July 25th, 2011 under Sapporo.
