Midtown Lunch

First Look at the BK Whopper Bar’s Pizza Burger: Eater, Gothamist, and Me So Hungry couldn't bring themselves to turn down a free preview of  the "pizza burger" at the new Times Square BK Whopper Bar this week, and it is quite a site to behold.  I'm kind of curious why we weren't invited!  Oh right.  I forgot... we don't test stuff from gigantor fast food burger chains since this happened.

Where Do Male Mister Softee Drivers Pee?!: Miss Softee tells DNAinfo that there are disadvantages to being a female Mister Softee driver. For example "unlike male vendors, she said she can't come up with alternatives to finding an actual bathroom." Uh... "alternatives"? Selling ice cream in Midtown isn't exactly camping in the woods. What are the alternatives? On second thought, I don't want to know.

Eddie’s Pizza Truck Avoiding 48th Today: In light of yesterday's "incident" Eddie's Pizza Truck has decided to try and park on 52nd and 6th today. Also of note, Mexicue will be on 40th btw. 5+6th. Check the ML Twitter Tracker to get updates, and check in on everybody else.

Rickshaw And Frites N Meats Still Fighting: Following yesterday's story about the dust up between Rickshaw and Frites N Meats, Rickshaw owner Kenny Lao told Grub Street that the notoriously hot headed FnM owner Vadim used racial and homophobic slurs against him. Vadim responded by saying Kenny is just trying to shift focus away from the fact that he ruined the spot on 48th for everyone else.

ML Forums: ML Happy Hour Meetup:

• What's worth it at GCT Market besides Murray's Cheese? [Midtown Eating]
• El Caminocito?  Still missing. [Midtown Eating]
• The August ML Happy Hour meetup is tomorrow at Blue Room [Connections]
• What do you like to eat for lunch when you're sick?  [Downtown Eating]

Five Guys Beats In N Out: When Five Guys first arrived in NYC, we called it the closest thing to In N Out Burger New Yorkers were ever going to get. Well, according to Zagat's 2010 Fast Food Survey, we don't even need In N Out.  Five Guys beat them out for Best Fast Food Burger... although the same survey has Chipotle beating Five Guys, Chick Fil A and In N Out, so can it really be trusted?

Get Your Own Food Truck For Between $50 and $100,000: Eater discovered a craigslist ad posted by a street food vendor offering up their truck for daily breakfast service. The cost? $2000 a month. I guess that's cheaper than buying a fake ice cream route, and then having to get into a fist fight to keep it!

$1 Soft Serve Alert: Thanks to Lunch'er "Miriam" for reminding us about this one... tonight is the last night to snag some $1 soft serve at Bryant Park, courtesy of Time Warner. They'll be there from 4-10pm.  See, not all ice cream trucks are mean!

50% off Fancy Korean Food: Chom Chom, the fancy Korean joint on 56th btw. 5+6th, isn't anywhere close to being in the ML price range... but today's $30 for $15 Groupon will get you closer. It doesn't work on their lunch specials, but you can still use it at lunch for the rest of the menu.

Cravings, Cupcakes, Crisp Coupons: On the ML Twitter Tracker today... Cravings is on 48th, Cupcake Stop, Frites N Meats, and Joyride are all on 52nd, Eddie's Pizza is on 38th and bragging about being on Entourage last night, Street Sweets is on 46th, and Crisp has some new coupons for you.