Comments for Midtown Lunch

Comment on Szechuan Gourmet: Day 1 as a NYT 2 Starred Restaurant by CHow

CHow — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:30:03 +0000

The ma po tofu is indeed grand. They’re also very generous with their beef tendon. How much tendon can you scrape off a cow? And their spicy beef noodle soup will burn your face off.

Comment on New Pizza Truck Serving Up Artichoke Pie in Midtown by paul

paul — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:16:38 +0000

Blondie, you don’t read Adam Kuban’s slice blog enough.

Comment on Burger King Being Replaced by Burger 41 by Zach@MidtownLunch

Zach@MidtownLunch — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:09:16 +0000

Damn dyslexia. Fixed… thanks.

Comment on Burger King Being Replaced by Burger 41 by confused

confused — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:07:31 +0000

soooo…the name of the place is 41 Burger as mentioned or Burger 41 as the sign would lead me to believe?

Comment on PROFILE: Midtown Lunch’er “Jim” by Rudy McBagel

Rudy McBagel — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:56:58 +0000

Now Red Dwarf!!!!

A Fawlty Towers line and im yours!

Comment on PROFILE: Midtown Lunch’er “Jim” by Mamacita

Mamacita — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:43:55 +0000

DocChuck, the Arnold Rimmer of ML. What a smeghead.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7b35O8O_5ZM

Comment on Shocker: There is Something I Like at Crisp by Liam

Liam — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:45:34 +0000

The Parisian is amazingly good. But the 10.57 price tag after tax is real rough.

Comment on Szechuan Gourmet: Day 1 as a NYT 2 Starred Restaurant by JustNancy

JustNancy — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:40:36 +0000

@ Tom: Right on about Ma Po tofu. I defy anyone who doesn’t like tofu but loves spicy stuff to try it. It’s the ultimate torturous comfort food, if that makes any sense.
That Szechuan Gourmet…*sigh*…they break my heart. I used to go there at least once a week for the pork belly & leek. But the chaos there is tough to handle, and they served us tepid food one too many times. I finally decided to complain. Quietly but firmly. The head waiter dude picked up one of our plates of food and tossed it into the food bus bin with a dramatic clack! I sh*t you not! My dining companion and I were stunned and sad. We left. I haven’t been back.

Comment on PROFILE: Midtown Lunch’er “Jim” by DocChuck's wife

DocChuck's wife — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:01:06 +0000

I see my husband (who at just over 250 pounds is a right about a third the man I am - and I mean that in two different ways, if such things infest you) has once again deluded himself into thinking that the faux/gimmick/gag PHD certificate (from Hamburglar U, with the big curved “M” watermark and the Hamburglar’s face and signature clearly stamped on it) we purchased for him back on his 77th birthday has once again gone to his Gonorrhea-addled brain. Last week, he thought he was Kurt Kobain - and I thank the good lord that he mistook the vacuum cleaner when he went for his shotgun, and (no harm, no foul) I only had to clean part of his tonsils out of the vacuum bag. He consoled himself with his blowup doll - calling her Courtney (I have no idea why) instead of Elizabeth (his usual name for her) for the rest of the day. I did have to talk him out of getting her a new piercing, though, as piercings don’t tend to work real well with inflatables.

That said, that item at the lower left of the photo does indeed strongly resemble a very small hairless canine, and having removed all the hair from countless yipping beasts, I know that look well.

Comment on Map and Restaurant Index by tj

tj — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:31:42 +0000

Sacco is one of my favorites for Midtown pizza btwn 54th & 55th on 9th