Midtown Lunch

Just a warning… the UN General Assembly is convening this week, and there are a ton of street closures that might effect many of the street carts you eat at. The Street Sweets Truck has already been forced to move from 53rd btw. 5+6th, and I’m sure there will be more. Feel free to [...]

…the very first Profiled Midtown Lunch’er ever (Harry from The Brooklyn Kitchen) is teaming up with butcher extraordinaire Tom Mylan to open a “a food dork megaplex [and butcher shop] on the north side of Williamsburg.” Brooklyn Based broke the news this morning, and the blogs went so crazy… I… well… felt a little left [...]

Midtown’s Kosher scene has seen a flurry of activity this week, as reported by the website Kosher-NY.  Eli’s Deli, in the Citigroup Building Food Court will close at the end of the week, the Mendy’s in the Rock Center concourse has officially moved to their new digs on street level (on 48th btw. 5+6th) and [...]

Chicken Souvlaki from Kefi (UWS)
We were pretty excited to read on Fork in the Road yesterday that Michael Psilakis (the chef of Kefi & Anthos) is planning on opening a Greek street cart by the end of the year. I’ve had his chicken soulvlaki sandwich at Kefi on the UWS (delicious!) and you know I [...]

Tonight is the second to last summer movie showing in Bryant Park, and since it’s sponsored by Time Warner Cable their $1 ice cream truck will be parked on 40th btw. 5+6th again from around 4:30pm until 9pm tonight. (Oh, and if you care about the movie, it’s The Magnificent Seven and starts at sunset.)

I’ve only heard about this magical truck, but had never seen it until this afternoon… the “Time Warner Cable” $1 ice cream truck is parked on 40th btw. 5+6th right now selling $1 ice cream cones (all proceeds benefit charity.) It’s Mr. Softee style cones (chocolate, vanilla, or swirl), with your choice of chocolate or [...]

I don’t know what I’m more surprised about… that Wu Liang Ye might be paying their employees slave wages, or that the popular Szechuan restaurant is owned by the Chinese government?!? Either way, workers staged a protest yesterday in front of the Wu Liang Ye on 39th & Lexington handing out flyers that condemned [...]

The NYMag Cheap Eats issue has always had a questionable but somewhat forgivable view of what constitutes “cheap”… everything has to be under $25 (although Minetta Tavern’s $26 black label burger somehow makes the cut.) Despite the high benchmark, this year’s issue (which focuses on pizza, sandwiches, and burgers) stays pretty true to a normal [...]

I would totally pay almost 2 million bucks to own my own lunch buffet!  That would be amazing.  What’s that? It’s lunch *with* (Warren) Buffet that somebody paid $1.68 million for? Oh…  nevermind. [via David Carr's twitter]

According to a survey by ECA International “”a quick lunch in Manhattan, the most expensive city in the U.S., averages a relatively modest $18.61″.  That means for every $5 street meat lunch we’re eating, somebody is spending $33.  Those people are nuts! And it’s getting worse. “In 2008, Manhattan came in at no. 84 and [...]