Midtown Lunch

With Valentine’s Day just five days away, the internets is all about cookies and sweets this week! We just told you about the Treats Truck’s new specials, plus Dorie Greenspan’s new CookieBar opened yesterday on Park Ave. btw. 59+60th (you can get a good look at it on Serious Eats New York and Fork [...]

Pain au trois chocolat from Bouchon Bakery. Photo by Feisty Foodie

Yvo & Hagan eat there way through everything at Bouchon Bakery [Feisty Foodie]
The “crap” food in this Pump Energy video looks delicious! [Serious Eats]
MomoMidtown’s take out service is “seamless” [World's Best Ever]
Dinner at Szechuan Gourmet looks amazing through Robyn’s lens [Girl Who Ate Everything]
Did you [...]

It’s time for the 3rd Annual Midtown Lunch Readers’ Poll. Your nominations are in, and between now and the end of the year I’ll be asking all of you to vote for the best Midtown Lunches in a whole range of categories. You can only vote once per category (so choose wisely), and official results [...]

Serious Eats has another beautiful (and delicious looking) post about the holiday sweets at Bouchon Bakery… but don’t forget about the little guys as well!  Both the Treats Truck and the Street Sweets Truck are taking holiday dessert orders now.

With the exception of Whole Foods, and the take out window of Bouchon Bakery, most of the restaurants in the Time Warner Center are outside the Midtown Lunch price range. But that doesn’t mean we’d turn down free food, right? The TWC in Columbus Circle has just launched a culinary club called “Circle of [...]

Check out the shrimp! (The food from Kim’s Aunt Kitchen Cart looks good too.)

Forget about the cuban… there’s a pernil sandwich at Margon!?! [Fressagirl]
If you like fancy ass bars, a new one is opening Monday on 48th btw. 5+6th [Strong Buzz]
This answer my question about dipping fries in milkshakes [Blondie & Brownie]
The owners hope [...]

Every Tuesday I turn over the site to a different Midtown Lunch’er for his or her recommendations for the best lunch in Midtown. This week, it’s Andrew an analyst who loves lobster rolls, and is mourning the loss of Mitzy’s Macarons.

Name: Andrew
Age: 22
Occupation: Analyst
Where in Midtown do you Work?: 52nd and Lexington
Favorite Kind of Food: [...]

This might be the only day of the year that I would actually recommend staying in your office for lunch (it’s rough out there on St. Paddy’s Day), but if you must go out to lunch, and you must have some corned beef (I don’t care if technically it’s not Irish, as some have pointed [...]

Photo by nycblondieandbrownie

The Treats Truck is now stocking a full array of St. Paddy’s Day cookies [Blondie and Brownie]
It looks like the Rainbow Room won’t be converted into office space after all [Diner's Journal]
Surprise!  The grilled cheese sandwich at Applebee’s on 50th St. isn’t good [NYP]
The guy eating everything on Tony’s Top 100 List hits [...]

Lunch at BonChon w/ The Kid (full report coming next week). Photo by Daniel Krieger

The comment that inspired the above photo [ML]
A sneak peak at what we have to look forward to when Kyochon opens in Koreatown [Feisty Foodie]
Bouchon Bakery’s bacon maple brioche looks might tasty [Dessert Buzz]
Haiku responses to the anti-Chipotle haiku you put [...]