Archive for March 2012

Free Macaron Alert!: Just noticed this on our Downtown site... Financier Patisserie is giving away free macarons this morning until 11:30am.  Freeloaders, you have just 30 minutes to get over there and score your freebie.  There are four locations in Midtown.

More Soom Soom Opens on 46th

SoomSoom brought pretty tasty falafel to Lexington Avenue last year. We had mentioned that they were planning on opening a second Midtown location near Fifth Avenue and the time has come. In fact, the new location (which is sort of hidden on 46th Street between Fifth and Sixth) opened yesterday. There’s no sign on the building (yet?), but some glass windows and a board outside featuring their falafel and salad bar pitas. Looks like they’re attempting to give the nearby Kosher Deluxe a run for their menu.

‘wichcraft Opening Two Kiosks in the NYPL Today: If you've always wanted to eat lunch in the New York Public Library, your prayers have been answered.  Two 'wichcraft kiosks are opening in the NYPL today, after visitors and patrons requested the ability to buy food and drinks inside the library. Neither kiosk will sell anything you can't get from the locations in Bryant Park so the news it not so much for Midtown's lunchers as it's for Midtown's readers, who are too lazy to go outside for food.