It looks like the short lived Empanada Joe’s (on 8th Ave. btw. 43+44th) is becoming a place called Roma Pizza. If the look of the sign is any indication, I’m guessing this will be just another generic 8th Ave. New York City fast food pizza place (aka for the tourists.) I guess only time will tell.
Posted by Zach Brooks at 3:45 pm, May 27th, 2009 under Empanada Joe's, Pizza.
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 mentality: unhealthy food, not lame (unless it’s lame in a cool way), and most importantly… cheap. This week, the Happy Hour Post is good enough to double as a regular Midtown Lunch post. And quite frankly, what better way to kick off Memorial Day Weekend with a lunch of pizza and takeout beer in a soda cup!
There are almost more Pronto Pizzas in Midtown than there are generic delis. If you are in the mood for dodgy free street sushi you can go to the one on 55th St. If you are yearning to bite down on a terrible looking gyro, then head to one of the two Prontos on 48th (I don’t know what the other one is good for.) But if cheep-ass beer and pizza in an … umm … “unpretentious” atmosphere is what you’re looking for, than the 41st Street Pronto is the dive for you!
Posted by Zach Brooks at 11:45 am, May 22nd, 2009 under 41st btw. 6+B'way, Midtown Happy Hour, Pizza, Pronto Pizza.
I requested it yesterday, and Adam Kuban has answered the challenge… ladies and gentleman, the cheap slice showdown between 99 Cent Fresh Pizza and its new neighbor 2 Bros. It’s as amazing as I imagined it would be when I issued the challenge. The winner as declared by SLICE: 2 Bros. (Didn’t I say the same thing? Maybe I do know something about pizza!) He also clears up the whole “do you have to pay tax” issue, but I think his findings only apply to the 9th Ave. location, not the one near Grand Central. [Slice]
Posted by Zach Brooks at 2:30 pm, April 29th, 2009 under 2nd Ave. btw. 42+43, Pizza.
As promised by Grub Street last week, 2 Bros. Pizza opened today in the just out of bounds Hell’s Kitchen location of 9th Ave. & 40th Street. I don’t know if I’d normally trek to 9th Ave. for $1 pizza (oh, who am I kidding of course I would). 2 Bros. Pizza is already a well know dollar-a-slice mainstay in the East Village, and clearly they are looking to challenge 99 Cent Fresh Pizza’s domination of Midtown (they have two locations, one just one blocks away on 9th Ave. and 41st.) If today is any indication, they’re going to do pretty well…
Posted by Zach Brooks at 2:45 pm, April 28th, 2009 under 2 Bros. Pizza, Out of Bounds, Pizza.
I don’t know if 33rd Street and 5th Ave. is technically considered Koreatown, but if it is- than the Little Italy Pizza situated on that corner is the best pizza in Koreatown. I found it very difficult to travel down to that neck of the Midtown Lunch’ing woods for something other than bi bim bap and bulgogi, but after reading Ultraclay’s report on Little Italy Pizza– I knew I’d eventually have to give it a try.
Posted by Zach Brooks at 12:45 pm, April 27th, 2009 under Little Italy Pizza (33rd), Pizza.
Stopped by Golosi (the new pizza/gelato place on Park Ave. btw. 41+42nd) today and, as promised, my pizza purchase came with a free scoop of gelato. (They didn’t skimp either… there is a lot of room left in the cup because they gave me the larger cup so I could take it to go with a lid.) The Yolato looking signs are still up, so it probably is the same gelato as before (but I can’t say that for sure). As for the pizza… well, I’m not good as passing judgement on pizza, so I may leave this one up to you guys.
On the plus side, they only charged me $2.71 for my 3 inches (which made no sense since supposedly it’s 99 cents an inch) and the slice they cut me was actually 4 inches! (I measured) Tasted pretty good, although I can’t decide if it’s going to be good enough to replace any of the goto pizza spots in the area. The by the inch thing is fun, but I could see it getting pricey once you start getting the slices with toppings. My slice was almost big enough to be worth it, but they also gave me 4 inches (I only paid for free three.) There are certain places where you feel like you are getting a great deal, and others where you never quite feel like the price works out in your favor (regardless of whether it does or doesn’t.) This probably falls into the latter category.
Speaking of toppings, they had the hot dog topped pizza- and it’s crazier looking than you could imagine. Check it out after the jump…
Posted by Zach Brooks at 2:05 pm, April 9th, 2009 under *Park btw. 41+42nd, Golosi, Pizza.
In Midtown it looks like “Little Italy Pizza” is becoming the new “Famous Ray’s”. I’ve written about the Little Italy Pizza on 45th btw. 5+6th, and then there is the arguably more famous Little Italy Pizza on 43rd btw. Mad+5th (which lost out to Two Boots by a narrow margin for best pizza in the 2007 Readers’ Poll.) But did you know there is actually a 3rd (Famous) Little Italy Pizza! Ultraclay has the report about this pizza place on 5th Ave. btw. 32+33rd, and from the looks of the pizza, and the comments on Yelp– this looks like it could be a new contender for best fast food pizza in Midtown.
The pizza porn is after the jump…
Posted by Zach Brooks at 9:45 am, March 25th, 2009 under Little Italy Pizza (33rd), Pizza.
More news from Khodiar Lunch Services (aka Newsstand Indian) on 6th Ave. btw. 37+38th. They’ve introduced pizza to the “food court” which already includes vegetarian Gujarati food, regular Indian food with meat, a chaat counter, and the latin food that used to be in the Blimpie next door. The chaat counter moved to the back awhile ago, along with everything else, and now the pizza is in the front right hand corner where the chaat used to be. They’re having a “Grand Opening” special, with slices for $1.50- so I felt compelled to see what pizza from an Indian newsstand would taste like (it doesn’t appear as if they have outsourced the pizza to an Italian family.)
Posted by Zach Brooks at 10:15 am, March 18th, 2009 under Khodiar Indian/Taj Delhi Chat, Pizza.
After almost 3 years of doing Midtown Lunch, I feel like I’ve walked down every single block of Midtown (multiple times.) And while the site would be nothing without your recommendations, and tips about new places, I thought there weren’t very many older places I didn’t know about. So imagine my surprise last week, when (based on a recommendation in the comments) I walked into Nino’s to discover a pretty cool, old school Italian place that I somehow managed to avoid in over 1000 days of Midtown Lunch’ing. So embarrassing. Even my wife was like “oh… you went to Nino’s? I’ve been to that place a million times.” How did I miss this? Aside from the obvious… it’s not Asian food.
I can’t even blame it on the location somehow being a random hidden block… it’s on 46th btw. 5+6th (!!!) the same block as Cafe Cello, Kim’s Aunt Kitchen Cart, Moshe’s Falafel, Kosher Deluxe, Ranch 1, and (at one time) Rangole & House of Pita. I’ve walked down this street one or two times…
Posted by Zach Brooks at 11:45 am, January 12th, 2009 under 46th btw. 5+6th, Italian, Pizza.
Wow… today has not been good for the Midtown Lunch’ing news. This just in from Lunch’er Jill: “Two Boots under Rockefeller Center is closing! Today is their last day. They are opening a new place at 9th and 45th.” And confirmed on the Two Boots website:
And it was one year ago this month you guys voted this best slice in Midtown. The end of an era… and a big loss to the lazy lunchers of 30 Rock who hate leaving their building.
Posted by Zach Brooks at 1:56 pm, November 18th, 2008 under *Rockefeller Center, Closed, Pizza, Two Boots.
