Midtown Lunch

As it customary here on Midtown Lunch, every Tuesday we’ll profile a different lunch’er and get their recommendations for places to eat in Downtown NYC. This week, Seth tells us that the glories of  eating downtown are all about where you eat, not what…

Name: Seth

Age: 24

Occupation: Investigator

Where do you work?: Rector Street

Favorite Kind of Food: Southeast Asian. Good produce. Pickled and/or Thanksgiving.

Least Favorite Kind of Food: I cannot say that I do not like fried food, it just clearly doesn’t have the same effect on me as everyone else. I blame my mother for removing the skin from my chicken as a child. However, I do not count curly fries in this category (see below).

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A week ago, we had a brief post about the start of the Street Vendor Project’s new interview series in which they’ll profile various street vendors around the city.  The inaugural interview happened to profile a gentleman by the name of Tesfalum Kiflu who hails from Eritrea and happens to be cooking out of a truck fairly close to City Hall.  Reading his words, I couldn’t help but focus in on two in particular: Eritrean stew.  I am all about trying new things and eating unusual foods.  Stew may be common enough, but it’s the modifier here that caught my attention.  Eritrean.  I’d be willing to bet that most folks in this country don’t even know what continent Eritrea is on (it’s Africa), let alone the characteristics of the indigenous stew.  So I did what any sensible, hungry, curious young man would do and made my way up Nassau St. to Ann St. to order one of Mr. Kiflu’s stews.

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