It looks like the Street Vendor Project’s program to help vendors accept credit cards has hit Midtown. Lunch’er “Ex_Flexitarian” noticed this sticker on the Kwik Meal cart last week. Makes sense… Kwik Meal has always been the classiest (read: most expensive) Midtown cart.
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Posted by The ML Team at 10:45 am, July 12th, 2010 under Kwik Meal.
Got word of two street vendor price hikes going down on 6th Ave. First up is Kim’s Aunt Kitchen Cart on 46th and 6th. Lunch’er Susan sends word that they raised their prices last week. “The fish sandwich is now $4.” Still pretty cheap by anybody’s standards, we can’t help but wonder if the oil spill had anything to do with this (although we’re guessing it doesn’t.) Also jumping on the price hike bandwagon is Kwik Meal, the already-kind-of-pricey cart on 45th and 6th. According to this post in the forums, a sign went up last week saying that starting today they’d be raising their prices on chicken, lamb, shrimp, and fish due to “rising costs”. Not sure what the actual increase will be, but I guess we’ll find out today. Hopefully these are just two isolated incidents, and not the beginning of some big trend (like the giant price hike wave of 2008.)
Posted by The ML Team at 9:45 am, May 10th, 2010 under Kim's Aunt Kitchen Cart, Kwik Meal.
Back in October Kwik Meal owner Muhammad Rahman got some competition from an unlikely source when his brother pulled up his “Fahima Hala” cart to 45th and 6th to sell chicken and lamb over rice right next to the Kiwk Meal cart. The brother didn’t last long at the spot, and Muhammad brought in the Kwik Pasta cart to try and keep him away. Well from the looks of things it didn’t work because according to Lunch’er “Victor” Fahima Halal, which had been parked on 42nd btw. 8+9th for the past few months, spent last week (and today) parked on 45th and 6th. Anybody try the food. I’m curious how it stacks up to his brother’s.
Posted by Zach Brooks at 2:30 pm, January 19th, 2010 under Fahima Halal Food, Kwik Meal.
When Kwik Meal cart owner Muhammed Rahman announced that he’d be bringing Kwik Meal IV to 45th and 6th and converting it into a past cart, I admit I kind of thought he was crazy. Pasta from a cart? Sure, he owns a pizza and pasta joint up in Harlem (and he famously used to work at the Russian Tea Room), but pasta just doesn’t seem like it would lend itself to the high volume craziness of the Midtown lunch street food scene. I was quickly proved wrong by my first visit to the cart. The angel hair with chicken and veggies was a good lunch, and not only was the pasta not over sauced (a crime in my opinion) but it had this great spicy kick to it that reminded you in every bite you were eating pasta from a street meat cart. I wouldn’t go so far as to say it was “amazing” or the best pasta I’ve ever had, but it was definitely better than I expected. And for $6, how could you go wrong?
Since then Muhammed has expanded his menu from 3 to 5 pastas, and yesterday I stopped by to try his new penne with meat sauce.
Posted by Zach Brooks at 11:50 am, December 3rd, 2009 under Kwik Meal, Kwik Pastas.
I’m pretty sure that this sign isn’t brand new, but thanks to Lunch’er Daniel for bringing it to our attention. Did you know that Kwik Gourmet (on 47th and Park) has cut prices by 50 cents on most of their items? (I think the chicken mini roll is the only one that has stayed the same price.) That means if you are willing to walk a bit farther you can get Kwik Meal food, at a slight discount. I’ve never done a side by side comparison of all the Kwik Meal carts (there are 3 in total,not including the pasta cart) but in theory they all serve the same food- and for 50 cents less, I might be inclined to take a chance. (What can I say? I’m a cheap bastard.)
Posted by Zach Brooks at 1:30 pm, October 30th, 2009 under Kwik Meal.
Photo courtesy of Lunch’er Stephen
Reports poured in from Midtown Lunch’ers trying the Kwik Meal pasta cart for the first time today (on 45th and 6th), and despite early concern that Muhammed wouldn’t be able to pull off pasta from a cart- the reviews seem largely positive!
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Just went, Rahman was there in the pasta cart creating the orders and asking customers to sample before they left so he could get their feedback. Got the chicken w/ vegetables — fairly delicious, no visible sauce but definitely a bit of a kick. I would probably get it again, but if they had other options besides angel hair it would be better.
Pasta photos and more, are after the jump…
Posted by Zach Brooks at 2:30 pm, October 19th, 2009 under Kwik Meal, Kwik Pastas.
A couple of exciting tidbits from the world of Midtown street vending this morning. First up, I just got word that Kwik Meal’s Muhammed Rahman will open his new pasta cart today. It will be parked next to the OG Kwik Meal cart on 45th and 6th and will have three options: Angel hair w/ chicken, shrimp, or vegetables in red sauce. Can’t wait to hear from the early adopters about this one. Feel free to send photos to zach@midtownlunch.com. Also going down today… Schnitzel & Things and the Street Sweets truck are parking together today on 52nd btw. 6+7th. Schnitzel burger, followed by fresh oven baked chocolate chip cookies? Sounds like a plan… (although, as always, you may want to check the ML Twitter Tracker for confirmation before heading out.)
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Posted by Zach Brooks at 11:00 am, October 19th, 2009 under Kwik Meal, Schnitzel & Things, Street Sweets.
Photos courtesy of Food in Mouth
Midtown Lunch’er Danny was all about carts on his blog Food in Mouth this week, giving a big thumbs up to Street Meat Palooza 2 winner Kwik Meal (on 45th & 6th). Sadly, the spicy pork tacos at El Rey Del Sabor (on 43rd btw. 5+6th) were plenty spicy but not as porktastic as he would have liked.
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Posted by Zach Brooks at 11:00 am, October 16th, 2009 under El Rey Del Sabor, Kwik Meal.
The sidewalk battle between Kwik Meal’s Muhammed Rahman and his brother (also Muhammed Rahman) got picked up by the New York Post on Sunday. The article tells the brother’s side of the story (“I’m working for him a long time. He make money, and not give it to me”) and adds that he plans to “become a permanent fixture” on 45th and 6th in a few weeks. We’ll see if there is any room on that corner, once Kwik Meal opens their Italian food cart!
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Muhammed Rahman just can’t make up his mind what do with his fourth Kwik Meal cart. Originally dubbed Meal Obama, the cart was forced to change its name to Kwik Meal IV and move from 37th and 7th to 38th and 6th. Business wasn’t great, so when Rahman’s brother parked a cart on 45th and 5th (the spot which used to be occupied by the now gone Kwik Meal 2), Muhammed decided to move Kwik Meal IV back to 45th and 5th (to reclaim his spot from his brother). Business wasn’t great there either, so a month ago Kwik Meal IV moved back to 37th and 6th.
Now comes the craziest news of all! According to a sign that Lunch’er Dennis spotted on the original Kwik Meal cart (on 45th and 6th), the new plan is to open a cart serving “Italian dishes”. I spoke with Rahman and confirmed that he is planning on parking Kwik Meal IV next to the original Kwik Meal cart, and will indeed be converting it into an Italian food cart. The plan is to serve pastas similar to the ones he serves at the pizza place he owns in Harlem, and if all goes well maybe some soups as well. Pasta from a cart? At the very least it should be interesting. The cart will open sometime in the next two weeks.
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Posted by Zach Brooks at 2:15 pm, October 7th, 2009 under Kwik Meal.
