Midtown Lunch

It’s official… the Dessert Truck, which was closed by the city a few months ago over permit issues, is opening a brick and mortar store at 6 Clinton St. on the Lower East Side.  I was going to take solace in that fact that we can still get their Chocolate Bread pudding at the RS [...]

Photo courtesy of Serious Eats: New York
Got a message today from the Dessert Truck, who lost the right to vend from their truck last month when their permit accidentally expired…
“Wanted to give you the heads up… we are starting to sell our chocolate bread pudding today at Lily’s Bar in the Roger Smith Hotel (on [...]

We should probably give up hope of the Dessert Truck returning to Midtown.  Chef Jerome confirms to Fork in the Road that he probably won’t try to renew their revoked permit, and instead is looking for a storefront in the LES or Village. Not a surprise. Midtown is expensive, and only seems to attract the [...]

New York City’s prohibitive rules and red tape surrounding the issuing of licenses and permits to street vendors has claimed its first “hipster” victim. The Dessert Truck announced in a letter posted to their website that the city has refused to renew the vendor’s permit they use on their truck.
August 7th, 2009
WTF?
We can’t open.  [...]

Starting today the Dessert Truck will be serving their very first non-dessert items: A smoked salmon sandwich (w/ cream cheese and chives on light puff dough) and a bacon & cheddar bread pudding. Both new items will sell for $5. The truck parks daily on 55th btw. Lex+3rd.

In what should be no surprise to anybody, the line at 11:40am is already stretching down the block for the Kogi BBQ truck’s first forray into NYC. For $4 you get a kimchi quesadilla from Kogi, along with the Dessert Truck’s famous chocolate mousse with peanut butter center. All proceeds benefit Citymeals-on-wheels, and there are [...]

If you haven’t heard of Kogi BBQ, the twittering Korean taco truck from L.A., go educate yourself. Then come back here for the greatest news of all time. As you know from our giveaway last week, Kogi is in town for the Citymeals-on-Wheels “Global Street Food” benefit on Monday night. Well, so many Midtown [...]

Yesterday the Dessert Truck introduced this new item: Your choice of a Brownie or a Chocolate Chip Cookie served with a scoop of vanilla or chocolate ice cream, salted caramel and pretzel crunch. ($6)  Hello summer! You can find them on 55th btw. Lex+3rd (unless they post a change to their Twitter account.)

Starting today the Dessert Truck is bringing back their Pavlova dessert, with a few changs. This year it’s meringue with a berry gelee and a whipped creme fraiche. Plus 50 cents of every order will be donated to Rolling Cones. The Dessert Truck can be found on 55th btw. Lex+3rd M-F Noon to 3pm, [...]

Apparently it’s “goat cheese season”, so Dessert Truck sends word that starting today they’re serving their goat cheese cheesecake again (it comes topped with a rosemary caramel and blackberries.)  The Dessert Truck can normally be found daily on Lex & 55th (or you can follow them on Twitter.)