Midtown Lunch

If you’re a big fan of Panini Tozt (the weird little sandwich shop on 50th btw. Mad+Park) you may want to hit it up for lunch today. Back in September a commenter noted that their building was slated for demolition, and on Wednesday it was finally confirmed in the forums: Panini Tozt will be closing by the end of this week. That means today is the last day to get that french fry filled panini (provided they haven’t closed already.)

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Don’t Mess With the Panini Tozt

I’ve walked by the strangeness that is Panini Tozt (on 50th btw. Mad+Park) so many times, but have never quite been interested enough to pull the trigger. After this email from Lunch’er Emily, I’m thinking that might have been a mistake.

I’ve been a longtime reader of Midtown Lunch, so I feel pretty confident you haven’t written about this newsstand that serves lunch well within ML’s price parameters, on 50th between Madison and Park. It’s called Panna Tozt, “European-style sandwiches,” or something like that. And yes, it’s in a real-deal newsstand. I went for the first time today and not only am I writing you mere seconds after I finished wolfing down my Cuban sandwich…but I don’t even have a picture to show you, because I ate it so fast. Yeah, it was that good.

They have a standard menu of combos to choose from – which they throw on the panini press for you, and THEN they take it off and ask you what you want to add. (I like this – my lettuce doesn’t get weird and wilted and hot from being grilled.) And you can add anything – even fries!

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