Photo Courtesy of ATHLETE Director Dave

I don’t know how I missed this one… but if you’d like to enjoy your lunch in front of some “art”, the atrium inside 590 Madison (enter on 56th St. btw. 5th+Madison) is housing Murakami’s “Oval Buddha”, a sculpture that was too large to fit in the Murakami show at the Brooklyn Museum.  The buddha will be there until September 7th (and there are plenty of tables for lunch’ing.)

Here are some of the reasonably close Midtown Lunch’es in the area:

• La Strada - Latin food inside a pizza shop (56 btw. Park+Lex)
• Tina’s Restaurant - Formerly Sophie’s Cuban (56th btw. 5+6th)
• Goodburger - Burgers (Lex & 54th)
• Indian Fast Food Cart - Indian food from a cart (53rd & Park)
• Tuscany Catering - Take out Italian sandwiches and hot food (55th btw. 5+6th)
• Five Guys - Burgers (55th btw. 5+6th)

[via NewYorkology]