Midtown Lunch

Last week 6 carts (including 3 in Midtown) offered up special “This is Why You’re Fat” inspired dishes for a scavenger hunt, and we posted photos of all the deliciousness. But photos can only be so effective. What you really want to see is an adorable hipster scarfing down those dishes one after [...]

Nothing like a T-Mobile ad during the World Series (or the Office, or Top Chef) to raise your profile. The Schnitzel Truck is everywhere thanks to a brand new TV ad that seems to be everywhere.  The truck is only on for a few seconds, and I’m not exactly sure what a priest who text [...]

Last week it was MSNBC, this week it’s CNN covering the whole street vendor craze with a short report about the Vendy Awards, and how winning can effect your business. Warning: If you watch the video, you’ll have to see my ugly mug for a good 15-20 seconds.

So what if trucks that twitter has been covered here, here, here, and here?  This video by MSNBC has me in it talking about the Midtown Lunch Twitter Tracker!  But don’t let that discourage you from watching it (Spoiler: I’m not an attractive man), it also has Miss Softee, Thomas from Wafels and Dinges (who [...]

Remember when (my all time favorite chef) Jamie Oliver was supposed to visit the Biryani Cart last year to film a segment for his new BBC show Jamie’s America?  Well apparently he was just a few blocks away, serving hot dogs and pretzels! The New York episode aired this week, and they posted this bonus [...]

Got this email last week from Lunch’er Andrew: “Had a great lunch at Zaiya today [on 41st btw. Mad+5th], though I had to go online for a tutorial on how to open those damn plastic wraps!”  Wait a second… there are online tutorials for how to open those shrink wrapped triangular rice balls? “But of [...]

Following in the Post’s footsteps (who published a story yesterday about “Plantergate”), local news stations WPIX and CBS2 become the latest “real” media outlet to use Midtown Lunch as a source for their stories.  WPIX interviewed a “gee-roh” vendor on 52nd & 7th, while CBS2 hit up the Kosher Oasis cart, and both talked to [...]

Erik from the website Fancy Fast Food visited the Miss Softee truck on Wednesday to fancify some soft serve, and the whole thing was caught on video.  I don’t know if turning ice cream into chocolate mousse is as impressive as turning McNuggets into Chicken Confit… but the video is still awesome to watch.  You [...]

Who says wine can’t go with street food!  The latest episode of VendrTV is up, and features Gary Vaynerchuk (from Wine Library TV) pairing wine with food from the Kwik Meal Cart and the Dessert Truck (R.I.P.) VendrTV host Dan Delaney was nice enough to invite me out to Kwik Meal (fresh off their Street [...]

A lot of news pouring in over the past few days about the third El Rey Del Sabor cart. Just to recap, their original cart is parked on 60th and 3rd, and their second cart is parked on 49th and 3rd. A month ago, they parked a third cart on 28th and 6th, [...]