Midtown Lunch

Lucky Cat (on 53rd btw. 2+3rd) is now known as HinoMaru Lucky Cat and they’re starting an INSANE ramen special today that’s going for the entire month of may.  Every Tuesday from Noon-1pm,  the first 50 customers will get a bowl of their shoyu ramen plus an Asahi beer for a whopping $3 bucks. Love ramen? Love beer? Love saving money? This one’s for you. I can’t even imagine how early you’ll have to get there to be one of lucky top 50.  Those brave enough to check it out, let us know how it is in the comments!

HinoMaru Lucky Cat, 232 E 53rd St. (btw 2+3rd)

Midtown East is battling the behemoth that is the Midtown West Ramen Scene. Some may argue that Ippuddo West, Totto Ramen and Ivan Ramen Slurp shop are the best that New York City has to offer. So what’s one to do if they work in midtown east? Sure, there’s Hide-Chan with it’s dizzying amount of ramen varieties or you can trek through the snow and Polar Vortex past 8th avenue to the big boys. If none of that sounds appealing, enter Lucky Cat.

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Just when you thought the Midtown ramen scene couldn’t get any better… HinoMaru Ramen, the Astoria ramenya that was included in Michelin’s Bib Gourmand list in 2012, has opened Lucky Cat Ramen on 53rd btw. 2+3rd in the old Social Eatz location. The menu is completely different than HinoMaru, so there’s no sign of the HinuMaru ramen or the fireball meatballs that Sietsema loves so much, but there is a tonkotsu style ramen, a shoyu ramen, and a tonkotsu/shoyu hybrid, as well as four other styles that I think you’d be hard pressed to find in any other ramen shop in Midtown.

Check out the menu after the jump…

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