Archive for June 2010

Mayor Bloomberg Flip-Flops On Food Truck Issue: When Mayor Bloomberg's office submitted a letter of opposition against Council Member Jessica Lappin's proposed anti-food truck law, it surprised some people. Now he's come out against the food trucks on his radio show. Sounds like someone may have gotten some angry phone calls since last week.

Lunch From Two Chinatown Carts Is Better Than One

If you’ve ever taken the J,M,Z (soon to be just the J) line to the Canal St. stop, I’m sure you’ve either seen or smelled the food from the two carts sitting on Centre St. between Walker & Canal. I’d always wondered where the strong scent of fried chicken was coming from as I came up out of the subway as there were no obvious restaurants or Popeye’s within sight. I was actually on my way to review another place when I figured out the source of the smell and decided to instead check these two dueling carts out for a super-cheap lunch. Find out if I won or lost this gamble after the jump. Read more »

Cheap Cupcakes To Be Had Today: Attention cheapskates and/or cupcake lovers: Today you can get $1 cupcakes at Billy's Bakery on Franklin (btw. Broadway & Church) in Tribeca in celebration of its one-year anniversary. I guess $1 cupcakes are better than full-priced dry mini-cakes.

Downtown Links (The “Subway Finally Infiltrates The Sky” Edition)

This makes my stomach full just looking at it, courtesy of Lunch with Front Studio

  • Beware the hidden danger in the pork stew from La Nueva Conquista, which is “yummy in taste but also rather bony.” [Lunch with Front Studio]
  • There is now a Subway suspended above the World Trade Center site, and they’re thinking of adding Papa John’s pizza. That is all. [NY Times]
  • The fact that BabyCakes has to advertise that its cake balls contain sugar almost makes me forget that they’re “soy free, casein free, egg free, vegan and kosher.” Almost. [Always Hungry]
  • Word on the street is that it’s best to mix and match the cookies in The Meatball Shop’s ice cream sandwiches, and the street doesn’t lie. [Fork In The Road]
  • Everything you need to know about Eddie Huang’s  new place Xiao Ye, which could open in the next week. Let the countdown to long lines begin! [Eater NY]

Tribeca’s New Takahachi Bakery Is Going To Make Me Fat

A new spot selling Japanese baked goods and bread, Takahachi Bakery, officially opened yesterday on Murray St. (at Church), a month later than planned. I stopped by to see what they had (you can also read about it here), and of course couldn’t get out of there without buying something from their intimidating selection. Read more »

FiDi’s It’s A Pizza Offers A Decent Slice…And Uzbek Food?

There are a lot of places serving slices in the Financial District, and I’m always on the hunt for my favorite. I think I may have found a new front runner with It’s A Pizza on John St. (btw. Broadway & Nassau) – a place that caught my attention with its sign that makes it look like a chain even though, to my knowledge, it’s not.

They have a very busy front window that displays a number of signs for what they sell including pizza (99 cent slices from 3-5 p.m.!), pastas, a chicken over rice special and sandwiches. Things only got more awesome when I got inside and noticed they had some very un-Italian specialties listed including something called a samsa and some dumpling-looking things called hinkali. Part of me wanted to order all of these crazy things, but since it was my first time visiting I thought I should actually eat some pizza since it’s the place’s namesake. Read more »

Read The Live Blog Of the City Council Vendor Parking Hearing: There's a hearing going on right now downtown dealing with a city council bill against street vendor trucks, and Miss Softee  (follow her on Twitter) is kindly live-blogging it for us. You can read about the proposed law here that is targeted toward food trucks and not the carts that park on the sidewalk.