Archive for May 2012
Don’t Let a Little Rain Scare You Off: Crisp on Wheels is on 49th btw. 6+7th, Urban Lobster Shack is on 51st and 7th, Chinese Mirch is on 47th & Vandy, Red Hook Lobster is on 50th & 6th, Gorilla Cheese is on 47th & Park, Domo Taco is on 38th & B'way, Cinnamon Snail is on Park btw. 46+47th, and Feed Your Hole is on 46th btw. 5+6th. But make sure you check the ML Twitter Tracker before heading out.
Posted at 10:44 am, May 22nd, 2012 | 0 Comments
Celebrate ‘wichcraft’s Birthday With a $9 Classic Combo: It's 'wichcraft's 9th birthday this week so to celebrate they've decide to offer a special combo all week long. Get one of their classic sandwiches (turkey, tuna, pork & coppa or goat cheese) plus a peanut butter or chocolate cream 'wich and an iced tea or lemonade for just $9. The lunch special is good through May 25th at all locations.
Posted at 2:15 pm, May 21st, 2012 | 0 Comments
Are Little Thai Kitchen’s Lunch Specials Worth the Extra $1?
People have always told me that Little Thai Kitchen (on 53rd btw. 2+3rd) is a cut above the rest of the Thai restaurants in the neighborhood, but their lunch specials start at $11 so I hadn’t really been too motivated to try it. But recently, curiosity got the best of me so I headed over to check out what they had to offer.
Posted by Anna at 11:30 am, May 21st, 2012 under Little Thai Kitchen.
Checking Out Seoul Food’s Bibimbap From a Truck
I’ve been curious to try the Seoul Food Truck ever since Anna and Donny both tried it earlier this year. I’m surprisingly not tired of the Korean taco phenomenon yet, but when I saw they’re offering bibimbap from a truck, my curiosity really peaked.
Posted by Rachel Goldner at 9:00 am, May 21st, 2012 under Seoul Food Truck.
Lunch Links (The “Triple D is on its Way” Edition)
Uploaded to the ML Flickr Photo Pool by ekinevel
Posted by Zach Brooks at 3:00 pm, May 18th, 2012 under Midtown Links.
Best Bar & Burgers: Where You Can Eat, Drink and Hookah
If you like to eat, chances are you like to drink (read: a lot of you are freakin’ lushes), so I thought maybe it was time to introduce a happy hour column to the site. Every week, our Happy Hour Correspondent posts 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.
I’m normally not one to host a happy hour in a bar and grill, but when you call yourself “Best Bar & Burgers” … well, this “fat kid” just can’t help herself. With a flashing “bar” sign hanging above its door and a hookah silhouette on its awning, you’d be amiss not to instantly spot this place.
Walking into the patron-less bar, I wondered if this would be a huge mistake. Curiously (and more selfishly, looking out for the future of my stomach), I asked the manager, David, if and when the restaurant would pick up. Being that the restaurant opened just four months ago (taking over what formerly was 36 West), and offers happy hour specials ($4 well drinks and $3 domestic bottles, which consisted of Bud/Bud Light and Coors/Coors Light) starting at 7 pm when most other bars end theirs, Best Bar & Burger lights up around 7:30.
Posted by jackiengai at 1:32 pm, May 18th, 2012 under Midtown Happy Hour.
Banzobar Reverses Its Name, Raises Prices
Last summer, Barbanzo opened in Midtown East, serving average falafel/hummus/shwarma fare. Chris tried the falafel platter back in August and reported back without much enthusuasm. I was walking by recently and noticed that the name had changed to Banzobar (I actually had to read it a few times to make sure it wasn’t my eyes playing tricks on me), so I went in to see if anything else had changed.
Posted by Anna at 11:45 am, May 18th, 2012 under Banzobar, barbanzo, Middle Eastern.
Bistro Truck and More in Midtown Today: It looks like the beautiful weather have brought many trucks our way. On the ML Twitter Tracker today, Bistro Truck makes a rare visit tp 47th btw Park+Mad with a new roasted lamb shoulder, Luke's is on 46th and Vandy, Red Hook Lobster is on 47th and Lex, and Urban Lobster Shack os on 52nd btw. 6+7th. Kimchi Truck and Bian Dang are on 47th and Park, Phil's Steaks and Seoul Food are on 51st and Park, Comme Ci is on 36th and B'way, and Wafels & Dinges can be had on 40th and Park or on 49th and 3rd.
Posted at 11:10 am, May 18th, 2012 | 0 Comments
Flatiron Lunch: Foragers Hitting Stride With Butcher Sandwiches
Every Friday we go 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.
As you probably already heard (because, really, there was an insane amount of press), Foragers City Grocer aka Foragers Market, a grocery institution that has been providing a curated market experience (aka upscale grocery store) in Dumbo, has landed in Chelsea. In terms of produce and roast chicken, they seemed to have it figured out from early on. I know this because a woman in there told me that she had a “problem” – she had bought about a dozen roast chickens in as many days during their first two or three weeks of being open. In contrast, the sandwich options have been a bit of a mess throughout the growing pains. So after a few visits (for science, of course), I feel that it might finally be hitting its stride. It doesn’t hurt that many of the sandwich prices have come down. As Rachel asked just this week, who actually lowers prices?
Posted by Sarah Zilinski at 9:00 am, May 18th, 2012 under Flatiron Lunch.
