Midtown Lunch

Yelp has created a checklist of the “100 Best Dishes Yelpers Ate in NYC in ‘08″ and a bunch can be had right here in Midtown: Slow Baked Apples and Chocolate Molten Cake from the Dessert Truck, Fried chicken from Bon Chon Chicken, the double soul mix from Hallo Berlin, Pan-seared monkfish from Sosa Borella [...]

We briefly mentioned last week that the Dessert Truck would be adding a new dessert this week, and it looks like today is the day.  Jerome sends word via email: “We’ll be introducing a dessert special starting today for lunch – a star anise panna cotta with caramelized pear and nutella brioche toast. It’ll be [...]

From Jerome, the chef of the Dessert Truck (which has been parking on Lex+55th):  “Starting tomorrow (2/27), we’ll be offering a banana, coconut and milk chocolate macaroon.  We’ll also be selling the last of our citrus ganache macaroons tomorrow. What we want to try to do is offer a new macaroon roughly every 4 weeks, [...]

Jerome, the chef of the Dessert Truck, checks in with this update to Friday’s report: “We found out late last year that our old lunch spot (on Park & 52nd) was not legal for food vending so we had to move.  We’re trying to stay in the same spot everyday for weekday lunch and 55th & [...]

It appears as if the Dessert Truck has returned from their “winter break” but with one major change… they will no longer be in the same space every day. According to their website they “have new locations and hours” which will get posted to the site when they park wherever it is they are going [...]

 
The Dessert Truck’s Throwdown w/ Bobby Flay finally aired last night on the Food Network, and in what shouldn’t have been a shock to anyone, the Dessert Truck’s chocolate bread pudding with bacon creme anglaise was the winner!  The big surprise was actually when Bobby Flay claimed that the Throwdown wasn’t actually going to happen until [...]

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The day of reckoning has arrived, and we finally get to see (officially) who won the Throwdown between Bobby Flay and the Dessert Truck last October. The episode airs on Wednesday night (1/14) at 9pm EST on the Food Network, and here is the description (courtesy of my Time Warner Cable Guide): “Chocolate [...]

Tuesday is your last chance for some hot Dessert Truck goodness, or Treats Truck action before they both close for Winter break.  Monday the Dessert Truck will be at Park & 52nd for their normal daytime schedule, but Tuesday they will be leaving early (at 2:30pm) before disappearing entirely until mid/late January. Treats Truck will be at 38th [...]

With the temperature starting to dip down, it’s not surprising to see places rolling out the hot soups and warm specials for the winter.  Food trucks especially seem to be taking the lead… for example, Rickshaw Dumpling Truck just introduced Miso Soup to the menu.  You can get it alone for $3, or added to [...]

We’re kind of shocked, but the pomagranate macaron beat out the chocolate/pomagranate lollipop in the Dessert Truck’s free sample giveaway/promotion thingy last month… which means, the pomagranate macaron has now been added to their repotoire for the month of November. The are the size of a quarter, and sell in little packs of three for $3, PLUS “for every [...]