Rachel Maddow is a Midtown Lunch’er: 10th Avenue is becoming quite the Mexican hotspot. In addition to out of bounds Midtown Lunch faves Tehuitzingo (10th btw. 47+48th) and Tulcingo del Valle (on 10th btw. 46+47th), there is also La Rosita (on 47th btw. 10+11th) which according to Rachel Maddow makes the best sopes and tacos. Don't trust people who work for MSNBC? Profiled Lunch'er Jamie is down with the place as well. (And they deliver.)
Posted at 8:30 am, July 27th, 2009 | 3 Comments
Photo courtesy of MychaelS
via Twitter: “What does this sign MEAN? Seen at Pergola above Salad Station on 40th near 5th” Huh. Uh… anybody care to hazard a guess?
Update via the Comments: Nevermind
Posted by Zach Brooks at 3:50 pm, July 23rd, 2009 under Ask Midtown Lunch, Salads.
You know something would be wrong if a week went by without somebody announcing they’re opening a new street cart. This week we’ve got two. The Bistro Truck plans on hitting the streets by the end of the month serving up a delicious (and cheap) looking menu of Moroccan specialties like merguez, lamb, and tajine (in addition to a burger, and steak sandwich.) They’ll start off in Union Square, but the owner told me they might come to Midtown eventually. You can see the menu here, and follow them on Twitter here.
There are also rumors that a Momofuku Truck is in the works. We would welcome that venture into Midtown with open arms as well (natch.)
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Posted by Zach Brooks at 8:30 am, July 23rd, 2009 under Bistro Truck, Cart.
I don’t eat my breakfast in Midtown (one meal a day in this wasteland is enough for me, thanks) but if I did this would easily be my #1 choice: the Eggs Travaganza Cart (on the NE Corner of 52nd & Park). Pancakes and bacon? Chorizo and eggs? Breakfast wraps? All from a cart? Amazing. Now if only they’d stay open past Noon! [Serious Eats: New York]
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Midtown…Breakfast? [ML Forums]
Kinako Soft Serve Alert: I don't think I've ever had kinako (soybean powder) in any form- but according to Kathy YL Chan, Cafe Zaiya on 41st btw. Mad+5th is now serving kinako soft serve... and I will take her word for it that this is exciting news! I guess we'll need her to update her food porn guide to Cafe Zaiya.
Posted at 1:30 pm, July 22nd, 2009 | 3 Comments
I had wanted to try Kabab & Grill (on 36th btw. B’way+7th) long before I read about their funky goat stew on the blog Food and Mouth. Anytime there’s cheap Indian (or Pakistani) food being sold out of steam tables for under $10 I’m going to try it. Throw in a Latin food steam table, which is where the goat came from, and now pizza, and it becomes a pretty typical “how could I pass this up?” Midtown Lunch. I finally got a chance to sample the Indian/Pakistani food from Kebab & Grill last week, and while it may not win any “best of” awards, it’s a perfectly good (and cheap) Indian food option for that area.
What I tried is after the jump…
Posted by Zach Brooks at 11:45 am, July 22nd, 2009 under 36th btw. B'way+7th, Indian, Kebab and Grill.
By now I’m sure you’ve heard about the law student, turned cupcake truck owner behind the Cupcake Stop Truck. Originally they were planning on parking the Herald Square Area, but fame is a fickle mistress- and aside from a few TV appearances, where they handed out free minis to passersby, Midtown has been completely Cupcake Stop free. Until today. The Cupcake Stop Truck is selling cupcakes today on 47th and 3rd from now until 6pm tonight (barring any “problems”.)
They were parked near my apartment on Sunday, so I decided to “sample” a box of mini cupcakes. Check ’em out after the jump…
Posted by Zach Brooks at 9:30 am, July 22nd, 2009 under Cart, Cupcake Stop Truck, Sweets.
I completely dropped the ball on this one (thanks to Apikoros for pointing it out in the forums), and completely neglected one of the more interesting parts of last week’s New York Magazine’s Cheap Eats issue: their online only list of 82 Most Notable Hamburgers in New York City. I counted 12 of them in Midtown (although admittedly there may have been more): Bar Americain, Beacon, Burger Joint, Carnegie John’s, City Burger, DB Bistro Moderne, Five Guys, Flip, Good Burger, La Cense Burger Truck, Pop Burger, and Prime Burger. Props to NYMag for including Carnegie John’s, but La Cense? Too soon my friends. Too soon. See the complete list here>>
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Posted by Zach Brooks at 10:45 am, July 21st, 2009 under Burger.
I like the sweet stuff just as much as the next guy, but desserts are not exactly my area of expertise. I tried the chocolate chip cookie from the Street Sweets Truck, and thought it was fine, but for a comprehensive look at their offerings I decided to turn to Kathy YL Chan, our resident coffee, sweets, and Hawaiian food expert here on Midtown Lunch (she’s also the blogger behind A Passion for Food.) She “sacrificed” herself by trying a good number of the Street Sweets Truck offerings, and filed this Top 5.
First the Treats Truck, then Dessert Truck, Wafels & Dinges, and now the Street Sweets Truck (followed by the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck). It would be easily to shake one’s head at the severe overflow of baked good and dessert oriented trucks in the city, but as far as I’m concerned (from a consumer perspective) the more, the merrier.
Unlike the other aforementioned trucks, Street Sweets Truck sets itself apart by being tied to a stone and mortar bakery in Brooklyn, One Girl Cookies. One Girl Cookies bakes a good number (but not all) of the products sold at the SS truck, including a selection of One Girl Cookies and some goods exclusively made for for SST.
I sampled my way around a good portion of their products, and while nothing is “the best of its kind”, as a whole SST is a notch above Treats Truck, the most comparable of moving dessert vehicles in town. Below, the top five to note for your next SST visit.
Posted by Zach Brooks at 11:45 am, July 20th, 2009 under Cart, Kathy YL Chan, Street Sweets, Sweets.
Ever since visiting Thailand 2 1/2 years ago I’ve been borderline obsessed with khao soi, the soup-like curry noodle dish topped with pickled cabbage, shallots, lime, and deep-fried crispy egg noodles. Despite all the great Thai food we have in New York, khao soi (being a Chiang Mai specialty) isn’t as ubiquitous here in the states as your pad thai, pad see ew, or the standard curry dishes (red, green, massaman, etc.) According to this post in the forums Sripraphai (unsurprisingly) makes a good version at their restaurant in Queens (I haven’t tried it yet), and I had a decent (but hipster’ish) version at Thai Market on the UWS.
So when I heard last week that Talent Thai (on 34th btw. 2+3rd) specialized in Chiang Mai style dishes, like khao soi, I was pretty excited. And yesterday, I traveled that extra 25 feet outside the Midtown Lunch boundaries to check it out.
Posted by Zach Brooks at 11:45 am, July 17th, 2009 under Out of Bounds, Talent Thai, Thai.
