Midtown Lunch

Love the kati rolls at the Biriyani Cart (on 46th and 6th) but looking for a change of pace? Lunch’er “Adam” has discovered that if you ask they’ll make a kati roll for you with falafel instead of lamb or chicken. That could be interesting…

After yesterday’s run in with the man the Biriyani Cart decided today to move their “Sandwich Land” cart across 46th street, in an effort to reduce the clutter in front of Cafe Europa.  The Biriyani Cart itself stayed in its normal spot, and the Carribbean Spice cart returned also- but very few customers seemed to [...]

A few reports have come in today about police activity in front of the Vendy Award winning Biriyani Cart (on 46th and 6th.) According to Lunch’er Chris it might have had something to do with the crowds of people waiting on line for biriyani in front of Cafe Europa (the generic Midtown deli on [...]

Looks like the Biriyani Cart was a little busier yesterday than we had originally suspected. The New York Times reported this morning that they sold out of biriyani at 1:20pm yesterday. Thinking of hitting up the Vendy Award winning cart today? You might want to get their early…

Got a number of tips this morning from lunchers who spotted Bobby Flay visiting Vendy Award nominated carts today.  He started at the Jamaican Dutchy cart this morning around 10am, then moved on to the Biryani Cart, before finishing up at the Wafels and Dinges Cart around Noon.  He was filming a segment about the [...]

Taking a branding page from the 53rd & 6th Street Halal Guys, the Biryani Cart (on 46th & 6th) has gotten t-shirts of their own.  The question is… how long before the other vendors on the same block start wearing red shirts to confuse customers!  More carts should have shirts… and sell them to the [...]

One year ago this month 20 Midtown Lunch’ers converged in Bryant Park to taste 13 plates of street meat and rate them in an event that became known as Street Meat Palooza.  The Famous Halal Cart on 53rd & 6th was crowned the winner, and we vowed to return one year later to give another [...]

In what shouldn’t be a surprise to anybody, the map part of this morning’s New York Times article about Midtown Lunching meant big business for some of our favorite carts today. The famous Halal Cart (on the SE corner of 53rd and 6th) had a longer line than I’ve ever seen (maybe to try [...]

Always Hungry has a write up on Tabla’s Indian street food “cart”, which is set up in front of the restaurant located next to Madison Square Park. It’s a little pricey, and way out of the Midtown Lunch boundaries- but the piece distinguishes between the kati roll (which we all know very well) and [...]

Lunch’er Josh, aka NYC Foodie, tipped me off to a new cart called Aamir Halal Food- which is serving chicken tikka and lamb over rice on the opposite corner diagonally across the street from the Biryani Cart (on 46th and 6th). According to Josh, the new cart is run by Aamir Hussein- who just [...]