PROFILE: Downtown Lunch’er “Hillela”
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 Hillela who has a favorite unconventional, but quiet, place to eat her lunch.
Name: Hillela Simpson
Occupation: Program coordinator at the Lymphoma Research Foundation
Where you work: 115 Broadway
Age: 23
Favorite Kinds of food: Italian (especially Northern), Vietnamese, Thai, and anything containing cheese.
Least favorite foods: Brussels sprouts
Favorite lunches downtown: Mongolian BBQ at Variety Café on Broadway (nr. Rector), lobster roll combo at Luke’s Lobster on S. William (btw. Hanover Sq. & Broad), $2 tacos at Toloache Taqueria on Maiden Lane (btw. Gold & William), and when I’m bringing my own lunch and the weather’s nice, the Trinity Church Cemetery on Trinity Place (btw. Wall & Broadway)
The “go-to” lunch place you and your co-workers eat at too often: Subway and Au Bon Pain
Places downtown you discovered thanks to Midtown Lunch: Downtown? Zeytuna on Maiden Lane (at William), technically thanks to Midtown Lunch when I worked at 36th and 5th (I love the chicken kebab wrap), and pretty much everywhere else my co-workers have introduced me to, as they’re avid ML fans.
Dream job location, purely for lunch purposes, and why: Rome for the cut-to-order pizza, squid ink pasta, fried zucchini blossoms, and farmers markets (to name a few), or somewhere in Southeast Asia for the abundance of street carts.
Anything you’d like to ask the Midtown Lunch: Downtown readers?: I’m from Seattle and have yet to find comparable teriyaki in New York. Any suggestions?
I’m going to leave the teriyaki suggestions to all of you Lunch’ers since I wouldn’t even know where to start (or what qualifies as “good” teriyaki). 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, July 19th, 2011 under PROFILE: Downtown Lunch'er.
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The best teriyaki I’ve had is from Sapporo in midtown (49th btwn 6th and 7th).
And sorry to name two out of bounds places, but had to add that I hated brussel sprouts until I ate them at Momofuku. I think they are parboiled and then deep-fried and served with thai chilies, mint and fish sauce. They were the most amazing thing ever and have started me eating them regularly. IMHO, adding bacon and garlic and roasting them = delicious.
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Apparently Seattle has its own Teriyaki scene. this website (http://realcheapeats.com/nyc/manhattan/) seems to know what you’re talking about and recommends Glaze Teriyaki Grill in Midtown
“When Glaze Teriyaki Grill opened in 2010, it aimed to channel the best of Seattle-style teriyaki in its all-natural, homemade sauce. Glaze brushes this seriously tasty sauce over a variety of proteins, but the best value on the menu—or in all of Midtown for that matter—is the beautifully plump, juicy, organic teriyaki chicken thigh, served over white or brown rice with crisp and fresh side salad.”
Glaze Teriyaki Grill on Midtown Lunch
638 Lexington Ave. (Map)
New York, NY
(212) 935-3400
I’m going to strongly urge you to check out Numero 28 for Roman style pizza, the West Village location. They literally have an Italian Grandma who doesn’t speak English in there cooking authentic Roman pizza. The slice with truffle oil was incredible.