PROFILE: Downtown Lunch’er “Kyle”
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 Kyle who treks to Little Italy and Chinatown for lunch, but also has a fall-back generic deli.
Name: Kyle Lazarus
Occupation: Social media coordinator/project manager
Where you work: The Barbarian Group on Beach St. & Varick
Age: 24
Favorite Kinds of Food: Mexican, Chinese, Japanese, Italian (in that order), banh mi. Fusion is always nice, when done well.
Least Favorite Foods: I haven’t come across any yet.
Favorite Lunches Downtown: The Jalapeno Truck for chorizo and bistec tacos; Nice Green Bo on Bayard (btw. Mott & Elizabeth) for soup dumplings, sauteed green beans, beef chow fun, and roast pork lo mein; Tataki on Lispenard (btw. Church & W. Broadway) for the lunch special only! Too pricey otherwise. Usual suspects with the sushi (spicy tuna, salmon, eel); Alleva Dairy on Grand (at Mulberry) for the best meatball sub in NYC. Their Italian special sandwich is amazing too; Korilla BBQ Truck for the bacon kimchi fried rice. If you get anything else you’ve wasted a trip; Num Pang Sandwich Shop on E. 12th St. (btw. University Pl. & 5th Ave.) for the classic banh mi – no reason to deviate. When I am in the area, Sammy’s Halal cart is a must stop. The original location is the corner of E. 4th and Broadway and the newer and larger (24-7) location is at W. 4th and 6th Ave.
The “go-to” lunch place you and your co-workers eat at too often: Picnic Basket deli on Hudson St. (btw. Franklin & Moore). They make these huge sandwiches fresh, and have a large selection. Never been a let down!
Places downtown you discovered thanks to Midtown Lunch: Tribeca Taco Truck – chorizo tacos allllllll day.
Dream job location, purely for lunch purposes, and why: Midtown West – all of the trucks have a day there that is easy to get to. Can finally get to Crisp on Wheels and feast on Famous Halal Guys plates on 53rd & 6th.
Anything you’d like to ask the downtown Midtown Lunch readers?: What is the best place to get a cheap and easy dessert that is quintessentially NYC?
That’s a tough one. I’m going to hand this one over to you guys since I’m not really a dessert person. What are your cheap, go-to dessert recommendations for Kyle? And as always, if you would like to be next week’s Profiled Lunch’er (or know somebody you’d like to nominate), email us at downtown@midtownlunch.com.
Posted by Andrea H at 12:00 pm, June 7th, 2011 under PROFILE: Downtown Lunch'er.
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Aw yeah, black-and-white cookies are jewish childhood delight for me
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Personally, I like a black and white cookie from the generic delis around town. I don’t like the ones that are pre-packaged and so they aren’t labeled, I don’t know who (or how many different folks) makes them, but they say NY to me. They’re also usually $2.
I’d stay away from some of the fancy ones, which taste too much like chocolate or mess with the cake. The icing is supposed to be chocolate or vanilla flavored sugar. Not actual chocolate. And the cake should be a slightly spongy yellow cake. The pre-packaged ones are usually too soft. Does that mean I like mine slightly stale? Maybe.