Midtown Lunch

“This is Why You’re Fat” the book comes out next week, and to celebrate they’re having a food truck scavenger hunt in NYC next Thursday. It involves taking your photo with 6 different incredibly gross items from 6 different NYC food trucks.  Here’s all the info direct from TIWYF co-founder Jessica Amason:
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I have never been to Foley’s (on 33rd btw. B’way+5th) and I know this is a stupid marketing gimmick… but any spot that wants to glorify Toots Shor (and by transitive property Frank Sinatra) is all right in my book.  Tomorrow (Weds 10/21) is Foley’s 2nd Annual Toots Shor day, celebrating the famous Manhattan restaurant [...]

Remember that blogging thing at Whole Foods I’m doing next Thursday? Well the people at Whole Foods saw some of your comments about price, and said they’d be happy to knock off $10 off the ticket for any Midtown Lunchers who wanted to come. Just use the code MIDTOWNFAN when purchasing your ticket here [...]

Speaking of vendor issues, if you are a street food lover (or vendor) you should show your support by coming to the Astor Center this Sunday night at 6pm. Sean Basinski (from the Street Vendor Project) will be hosting a street vending panel featuring me, Ed Levine (from Serious Eats), and Kim Ima (from the [...]

It seems like every major food media company in New York has decided to throw their big food events over the next 6 weeks. There’s the Bon Appetit Pop Up Supper Club and Cafe happening all next week, the Food Network New York City Wine and Food Festival October 8-11th, the Gourmet Institute October 23-25th, [...]

Well, the Hot Doug’s event at Astor Center is already sold out- but there’s another event that was just announced you might be interested in. There are no foie gras dogs, or duck fat fries- just discussion about an issue that should be near and dear to every Midtown Luncher’s heart.  This Sunday night the [...]

After visiting Chicago last October, I practically begged the owner of Hot Doug’s to open a second branch of his amazing hot dog stand in NYC. I knew the effort was futile, but when faced with sausages this good (plus duck fat french fries) a man’s stomach can force him to do things his brain [...]

If you like to eat, chances are you like to drink (read: a lot of you are freakin’ lushes), so I thought maybe it was time to introduce a happy hour column to the site. Every week, our Happy Hour Correspondent “Mamacita” will post about a different bar in Midtown that fits the Midtown Lunch [...]

If you enjoy spending your lunch hour watching pole dancing, but don’t want to eat lunch at Rick’s Cabaret- you’re in luck!  Marlo from the “Pole Riders” will be doing her thing today at Noon on the corner of 6th Ave. and 42nd near Bryant Park.  All I know is what I read on this [...]

Two former profiled Midtown Lunch’ers (among others) will attempt to break food related records at tonight’s Universal Record Database (URDB) event at Crash Mansion (in the LES).  Lunch’er Rachel (from Cupcakes Take the Cake) is going for longest cupcake kebab (?) and Lunch’er “Harry” (from the Brooklyn Kitchen) will go for “most cherries pitted in [...]