Midtown Lunch

I wasn’t the only one to find the New Orleans-style sandwiches at Cheeky Sandwiches on Orchard St. delicious, it seems. The Times did a short review in its $25 and under column and loved both the half and half po’ boy and chicken biscuit that I recently sampled. Just stay away from that veggie muffalata on their menu, which Zach deemed an abomination for its lack of cold cuts…or any meat.

Oh Chinatown, you just keep serving up the delicious and cheap food in true Midtown Lunch style, and my latest venture to one of your restaurants made me love you even more. That place is Wah Mei Pork Chop Fast Food on Hester St. (btw. Baxter & Mulberry). It’s one of two Taiwanese pork chop places in that neighborhood, the other being Excellent Pork Chop House on Doyers. Wah Mei has a pretty limited menu consisting of pork chop or chicken over rice or noodles, soups and fried rice. Clearly, if pork chop is in the name, that is what must be eaten when you first go there. Read more »

As is 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, we have Sherry, a fellow food blogger with a twist who likes Asian food of all stripes and is mourning the loss of her favorite food cart.

Name: Sherry

Occupation: Co-founder of Appetite for Good (http://appetiteforgood.com), a new kind of food blog that focuses on the philanthropic side of chefs and restaurants.

Where you work: Soho, for my day job

Age: 25

Favorite Kinds of Food: I’ll give anything for good Japanese food. I love love love sushi! And Chinese food – good, authentic Chinese food is really hard to find in New York, though. I just came back from Shanghai and had some of the best dim sum I’ve had in my life. I wish I can find dim sum of that caliber (and price LOL) in Chinatown!

Least Favorite Foods: Call me boring, but I can’t eat anything too salty or greasy. I have a “delicate” palate, as described by one of my friends. Hey, gotta be sensitive to all the subtle flavors of Japanese food, right? Read more »

A while back when I was reviewing Tandoor Palace on Fulton St., to what did my wandering eyes did appear but…a Russian/Turkish bath house with a restaurant. The unnamed restaurant is within the enormous Wall Street Bath & Spa 88 (seriously, I could have gotten lost in there), and they serve a just out of Midtown Lunch price range three-course lunch for $11.95. “This is amazing,” I thought to myself. And so, one day I rounded up a co-lunch’er and went with an empty stomach and thoughts of erasing the vegetarian lunch I had the day before from my mind. Read more »