Midtown Lunch

Sometimes you want good quality sushi in a nice setting, and sometimes you just want some cheap Japanese food to eat in a random public indoor location or at your desk. Enter Shinju Sushi on Pearl St. (btw. Pine & Wall), that may give you the most in their lunch box for the least amount of money in the FiDi. I went in with low expectations for what my $8 lunch box would contain, and other than one fail I was pleasantly surprised. This isn’t Haru, but at least they make their sushi fresh!

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Order this first, then wait for a table. Courtesy of Lunch Studio.

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Some proteins are more forgiving than others – namely those containing a lot of delicious fat. But I cannot live on fatty meats alone without my heart exploding, and when I saw Big D’s Grub Truck was making its weekly stop in the Financial District with a special of chili sesame chicken I decided to go check it out. I was also curious to see what these grinders they’re serving would be like. I’d had the tacos the first time they parked down here, and was impressed by two out of the three I tried and by the impressive price-to-size ratio. Would the grinder be a success or failure? To the analysis!

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I was a little surprised at how much interest my post about the $8 lunch special at The Copper Barrel on Murray (btw. Broadway & Church) got from all of you lunch’ers. Then it was pointed out that there’s not much in that area for lunch, either good or bad, although if you go up to Chambers St. there are at least a few options. Most of those are fast food, though, and sometimes you just don’t want to order your meal by number. The sign outside gives no clue as to what the lunch special is, so I decided to step inside yet another dark bar in the middle of the day to find out.

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Good news if you were a fan of the NYC Cravings truck and work in the FiDi. Its reincarnation, Bian Dang, announced on Twitter that it’s going to be on Water St. The ML Downtown Twitter Tracker also shows that Wafels & Dinges truck will be on Wall St. and also has a cart on Greenwich in Tribeca, and Rickshaw is on Wall. Big D’s Grub Truck is debuting its sesame chili chicken downtown on Hanover Sq. and in Soho, Frites N Meats is on Hudson. Is that enough for you? No? Good, because Korilla is parked on Governour. Photo courtesy of Ultraclay.