Midtown Lunch

What a very strange and heartbreaking episode of the Great Food Truck Race last night. If anybody’s been following it, you know that our hometown favorites Korilla have been consistently on the top. They’ve used some clever strategies along with their delicious Korean tacos to get ahead in the game. We knew that they had made it into the top four, but as it turns out, that’s as far as they got. Last night’s episode was a difficult one for all the trucks because they were not allowed to use meat in the carnivorous town of Memphis, and Korilla really seemed to suffer without their usual massive lines.

And when the elimination was announced, there was a twist nobody saw coming.

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If you haven’t heard by now, our very own Korilla BBQ truck will be competing in the second season of Food Network’s Great Food Truck Race. The show premieres on August 14th, and they’ve released a sneak peek of the new season- complete with Korilla getting publicly spanked by Tyler Florence for speeding. Check out the video after the jump…

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In these brutally hot dog days of summer, there are few joys when walking through the concrete jungle of Midtown: Mister Softee trucks, air conditioned stores with their doors wide open, and now we can add Korilla BBQ to that list. Just last week, the guys started offering up the Korilla Kooler. It’s just $3 and is the perfect blend of watermelon juice and lemonade. It’s balanced beautifully – not too sweet, not too tart – it’s a mellow, refreshing elixir. They’re due to set up on 55th and Lexington today. If the temps stay as high as they have been (and assuming the cops don’t start in), I may wait in line again just for this. As always, check the ML Twitter Tracker before heading out.

Summer may not start until this weekend, but on Monday I rang in the season early by performing a New Yorker’s seasonal ritual: standing in line with a couple hundred people at a food festival. It’s something I tend to avoid no matter what time of year, but despite that I made my way to West Chelsea to the Zagat Food Truck Frenzy in order to get a taste of some of the food trucks that don’t often make it to Midtown South or Flatiron. What I found was a number of tasty tacos and a bunch of trucks I want to try out some more.

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Show of hands – who’s a fan of the Korilla BBQ truck? And who’s active on twitter? Both hands raised? Good. As we now know, Korilla has made it through to the final rounds of competition on The Great Food Truck Race, and anyone who wants to show support to Korilla BBQ can do so by adding a #greatfoodtruckrace hash tag any time you mention @KorillaBBQ in your tweets. So support your home town team and get to tweetin’ people!

So everyone’s aware that Korilla BBQ’s truck is doing the Food Network’s “The Great Food Truck Race,” yes? The second season is currently in production with the teams racing around the country hoping to make it to the next round, all to win some cash money. Well, this past weekend the remaining teams made a pit stop in Manhattan, Kansas aka “The Little Apple” and a tipster sent along these photos.  And if you thought lines were big in the Big Apple, check out these lines in the Little Apple.

*SPOILER ALERT* Great Food Truck finalists are after the jump…

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The guys at Korilla BBQ have been very busy. In addition to preparing to be reality TV stars, they have finally launched their much anticipated second truck. It premiered on the street today in Chelsea bringing their Korean tacos to more New Yorkers. A second truck means more locations throughout the city, including an extra day in Midtown. The original truck will maintain its current schedule (with stops in Midtown on Monday & Thursday) and the new truck will be parked in Midtown West on Fridays. Check them out on twitter or through the ML Twitter Tracker.

It seems just like yesterday that the Korilla BBQ truck hit the streets of NYC, serving up Korean tacos to grateful lunchers across the city. Now they’re hitting prime time, as contestants of the upcoming season of “The Great Food Truck Race”, which will premiere August 14. Whether or not you’re a fan of Korilla, these home town heroes from Queens definitely deserve support from New York. Let’s show those Californians how we roll! [via Eater and Grubstreet]

This week I noticed on the ML Twitter Tracker that Korilla BBQ was trying out some new menu items–citrus glazed version of their “Wonderbird” (aka chicken) and the KALBiester which is their take on traditional BBQ (kalbi is marinated short rib). Being a Korilla fan, I had to go check it out. Read more »