Midtown Lunch

When you walk into a place where baked goods and bespoke chocolate bars are displayed on a table, and there’s no menu board on display, it’s always a little suspicious, price-wise. Such is the case of the new Birdbath Bakery -a City Bakery offshoot- that opened a branch in the 2 Grand Central Tower atrium on 45th St. (btw. 3rd & Lex). I’ve eaten at the location in Tribeca a few times during my tenure as head Downtown Lunch’er and found the food mostly tasty, but with a high price tag that was hard to swallow.

I checked out a sandwich for you Midtown Lunch’ers, and you can hear the good and the bad of it straight ahead.  Read more »

The Cinnamon Snail has been on hiatus for several months while they built out their new prep kitchen. They passed their inspection with flying colors and today they’re hitting the road with some new menu items. Read more »

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.

About a month ago, Indikitch opened along 23rd between 5th and 6th Avenues, a stretch with many vacant storefronts, so lots of opportunity, and a demand for more lunch options. I held off until now to let them settle into service, which was a struggle considering how much I love Indian food. (I know this isn’t the place, but I have to mention, for those of you closer to Grand Central, that I tried Shalom Bombay for dinner recently, and I do not recommend it!)

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Cer Te (on 55th btw. 5+6th) and Pizza by Cer Te (on 56th btw. Park+Lex) have announced their March specials, both of which start tomorrow.  The $8.95 Pambazo is Cer Te’s sandwich of the month, featuring chorizo and potatoes, caramelized onions, and queso fresco, on a torta roll dipped in Guajillo sauce. And at Pizza by Certe you can get the Paddy D’s slice, featuring corned beef meatballs, charred cabbage, shredded potatoes, gruyere and a mustard seed bechamel on a caraway garlic crust.