Midtown Lunch

From Lunch’er Nick: “The Sbarro underneath rock center has closed, windows blacked out. The one in the subway station, across from Cinnabon. Also, that Jamba Juice rip-off that was next to Ben & Jerry’s is done too.” (Cue the “Steam” song…)

Lunch’er “Lesliepear” pointed out in the ML Forums yesterday that the windows have been papered over at Metro Marche, Cafe Metro’s experiment in semi-fine dining in the Port Authority (on 8th Ave. and 41st.)  There is no official confirmation that they are closed, but the phone number on their website is disconnected- which is never [...]

Got some sad news for sushi fans in the inbox yesterday afternoon from Lunch’er Christina: “Went to Norimaki today, they have a sign up by the counter that says their last day is 8/28—they are closing.” Decent and cheap sushi is tough to find in Midtown, and Norimaki was one of the better options [...]

Just got word that the Smorgaschef on 49th St. & 2nd Ave. has closed. It’s out of bounds and not really a Midtown Lunch (everything is over $10), but if you must partake there is another location on Park Ave. & 38th Street (where the old AQ Cafe used to be.) For my Swedish food [...]

This just in from Lunch’er Tigerbot:
“Just went to go to city burger (on 39th & Broadway) and found that it was out. Apparently the Schnitzel Glatt Kosher Express is moving in instead… Sad day!”
Called City Burger to confirm and their answering machine says “Closed For Renovations”, but when I called the Abitino’s (City Burger’s [...]

Paying for Indian food by the pound always seemed like a losing proposition to me, so I wasn’t exactly surprised to see the gates down on Kashmir Express Friday (on 8th Ave. btw. 39+40th.) They were closed temporarily by the DOH last year, and last week’s closing could be temporary as well- but to [...]

This just in thanks to lunch’er “ecoli”:  The just out of bounds location of 99 Miles to Philly that opened on 2nd Ave. and 52nd Street has closed.  It looks like the original EV location is still open, which means that it’s just this space that’s cursed.  Zip Burger barely lasted two years in the [...]

At the beginning of the month we reported the sad news that Fashion Soup (on 41st btw. 6+B’way) had closed. Last week Lunch’er Kay sent in this email detailing the final days of the Midtown soup institution.
“I read your article in the NY Times just today and thought I’d tell you what little I know [...]

Things are not looking so good for Chicken Bar, the Ranch 1 “rebranding” project that launched a few years ago. The location on 52nd btw. Lex+3rd has closed, leaving the location on 8th Ave. btw. 45+46th as the only one left in Midtown. (Though there are still Ranch 1 franchises inside 3 different [...]

Mentioned in the forums, and confirmed by the photo, Panda Restaurant (the Chinese food/Italian food mashup on 46th btw. 5+6th) has closed. It always saddens me to see a Chinese food place of any kind fail, but this isn’t much of a surprise- Panda just wasn’t really that good. And if I’m [...]