Midtown Lunch

Photo courtesy of Tasty Eating

• The Concubine’s Chicken Hand Pulled Noodle at Xi’an is gooood [Tasty Eating]
• More about Xi’an Famous Foods’ secret recipe [Forbes via Grub St]
• The 52nd St. Thai food cart makes an adequate pad see ew [Food in Mouth]
• La Vie en Szechuan will make you feel like you’re in Chinatown [Lunch Studio]
• Cho Dang Gol has spicy galbi jim!? [Fork in the Road]
• Where to eat near Grand Central [SENY]
• Joe Coffee is now roasting its own beans [Grub Street]
• The upstairs at Ippudo Midtown will be called Men Oh [Eater]

If you’re the type of person that reads Midtown Lunch, you probably like cheesesteaks. Lucky for you, plenty of decent Philly-style options have opened up in recent years… like this one, this one, and this one. These places are all great, but you may find it difficult to stay under $10. Sometimes, I just crave a big gut-buster that won’t bust my wallet too. So, I began a search for midtown’s best cheap cheesesteaks. Initially, my intention was to order as “traditional” a Philly cheesesteak as possible at each destination, but it soon dawned on me that there’s really nothing traditional or authentic about ordering cheap-ass cheesesteaks from street carts in New York City.

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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.

It may just be me, but the sight of signage promoting quail curry on Thursdays got me super excited. (It’s not just me, right?) Where else can you order quail curry in Flatiron or Midtown? (Seriously, is there any place else?) I was excited.

When I went to Lahori Kabab on a Thursday to claim my quail curry, they didn’t have it. Trust me, I was super bummed. They promised me they would have it the next week. When I asked which of the daily specials he preferred, the guy at the counter said his favorite is Friday’s haleem.

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We may not be on the street anymore but it aint the last you heard from fishingshrimp! In the meantime check out our new truck @mooshugrill

— Fishing Shrimp (@FishingShrimp) July 29, 2013

We haven’t seen the Fishing Shrimp truck around in Midtown for a while and now we get word from Twitter that they have called it quits due to raising seafood costs. But they will still be available for catering and pop-up possibilities. The company (which also runs the Bian Dang and Domo Taco trucks) quietly launched a new food truck this week and it’s called Moo Shu Grill, serving lo mein and moo shu wraps. They tweeted that they’ll be coming to Midtown today for the first time, parking on 38th and Broadway. If anybody tries them out, please leave feedback in the comments.

A couple of weeks ago, Schnitzel & Things announced via a blog post and tweet that they would be launching a new food cart. Luckily for Downtown Lunch’ers, this week, the cart hit the streets in the Financial District. But fear not, ML’ers, although the new cart is starting out downtown, we hear they have plans to make their way to Midtown after the kinks are worked out.

Check out the menu after the jump!
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