Midtown Lunch

El Rey del Sabor is adding a few specials to its excellent roster of burritos and tortas. Starting today (and continuing every Friday), they’ll be serving pambazos. This hearty Mexican sandwich is made with both white and red (from a dip in a red guajillo pepper sauce) bread. It’s stuffed with with guacamole, ground beef, chorizo, and potatoes. It’ll cost you $6.

And if you missed out on the chance to dare your co-workers to eat a grasshopper quesadilla, you can try on Thursday when the carts will have chapulines once again.

El Rey del Sabor (3 Locations)

• 49th and Park
• 43rd btw. 5+6th
• 60th and 3rd

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.

Nutella. All Nutella. ALL.THE.TIME. (Except at my apartment right now, because I have a nasty tasty habit of eating it straight from the jar with a spoon.) But on Monday, there will be a major convergence of Nutella within a block of the Flatiron building. I wonder if the force of so much Nutella in one area might cause a black hole.

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Looks like the forthcoming Times Square Mexicue location is making progress! Signage recently went up declaring their “coming soon” status, which makes sense after last month’s Crain’s profile that detailed a June opening. If you’re wondering what the 1200 square foot Midtown shop will look like, Mexicue posted a rendering on Instagram a couple months ago. So what does all this mean for the truck? According to that same Crain’s article, Mexicue has discontinued its daily service, reserving the truck for catering events only.

Mexicue, 1440 Broadway (on 40th btw. B’way+6th)

Last week, I was making my way to Zeytinz for lunch when I spotted a new (at least to my knowledge) food truck parked along 40th, right across from Bryant Park. It was the Potato House truck, and this was the first time I had heard about Potato House at all, so I stopped and looked over the menu. They had the usual toppings, like chili, sour cream and broccoli, but they also had toppings like crab, seaweed and beets. Not sure what to think about this new cart, I continued on my way to Zeytinz and began searching the interwebs for any additional information I could find. There wasn’t much (aside from this early spotting back in Sept when they were just a cart), so with my Zeytinz sandwich in hand, I made my way to Potato House to see what it was all about.

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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.

About a month ago, I decided selfishly to use my love of whitefish salad as a means to try different bagel shops in the area. This week, we continue our whitefish salad-crawl by working our way north on both the east and west sides of Flatiron Lunch. Where do FL’ers in the center of the FL zone get bagels?

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Despite the crowds, Village Voice’s Choice Streets last night was a huge success. 23 food trucks from across the city served samples from their vehicle and made the lines worth the wait.

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As I was walking towards Bryant Park this week, I noticed an unfamiliar sight – a new storefront on 40th between Broadway and 6th Ave. I looked up at the sign and read the name, Organic Avenue. Now, if you lie awake at night thinking that there’s been a serious lack of kale in your diet, and you just can’t physically imagine going more than a few days without your necessary dosage of sunflower falafel, then you are the type of person who is going to love Organic Avenue.

For everyone else, like those of us who like meat, and eating from places that don’t advertise about Community Cleanses, which, according to Organic Avenue, is “a way to meet new people, share health goals, and cleanse with a group”, then please just disregard this entire post.

Organic Avenue, 5 Bryant Park (40th btw. 6+7th)

Per tradition, Cer Te’s May sandwich of the month is a soft shelled crab sandwich with potato chips.  Here’s what we thought of it last year.  Cer Te is on 55th btw. 5+6th.  Enjoy!