Midtown Lunch

It’s been awhile since I’ve randomly eaten at one of the many nondescript street meat carts dotting the sidewalks along Broadway. The Sahara Express cart at Broadway & Warren caught my eye because the signs on the side said they supposedly served fish over rice (and hummus, but I wasn’t fooled by that one). I love street meat fish and had one of the tastiest lunches ever ordering sea creatures from a truck. I put in my order behind a guy who had obviously been sent on a lunch mission for his office, and quickly came to realize that I was going to be eating either chicken or lamb.

I placed my order of a combo over rice ($5) and waited while more and more people stopped to get food from the cart. This was definitely a good sign, but the guy was still working on dishing up the multiple containers for the guy in front of me while I amused myself by watching some sort of demonstration taking place across the street in front of City Hall.

The guy annihilated my salad with white sauce, and then proceeded to do the same with the hot sauce on the meat. This wouldn’t have been such a bad thing except the hot sauce clearly contained Tabasco and that’s all I could taste on both the meat and rice. It was actually kind of good, in a street meat/buffalo wing mash up way.

You can see the orange hue of the chicken in this photo, which was mostly from the hot sauce. This was a decent plate of street meat and I liked that the lamb and chicken combo was $5. I wouldn’t go out of my way for this unless you are in the mood for a cheap alternative to buffalo wings.

If I’m ever in this area and craving lamb over rice I think I’ll stick with the C&H halal cart on Chambers & W. Broadway that gives you a lot more meat for your $5.

Sahara Express Cart, corner of Broadway & Warren