Midtown Lunch

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 DeShaun who discovered the joys of giant parm sandwiches from a truck from this site and likes cheap tacos.

Name: DeShaun Craddock

Occupation: Research analyst

Where you work: Corner of William & John streets

Age: 28

Favorite kinds of food: Italian, Thai, sushi, Mexican

Least favorite foods: Shellfish

Favorite lunches downtown: I absolutely adore Toloache Taqueria on Maiden Lane (btw. William & Gold) for their suadero and puerco tacos when they’re $2 on Tuesdays and their tortas; Caruso’s Pizza & Pasta on Fulton (btw. Nassau & Broadway) for a quick slice; Lemongrass Grill on William St. (at Maiden) for chicken pad thai and Thai iced tea.

The “go-to” lunch place you and your co-workers eat at too often: Zeytuna on Maiden Lane (at William), or Chickpea on John St. (nr. William).

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The World Financial Center (and Battery Park City in general) is short on good, cheap lunch options so I’m sure many of you got excited when word got around that Caravelli’s Pizzeria was opening in the food court area. Anticipation built as word got around that one of the owners was Ed McFarland of Ed’s Lobster Bar fame who has a kiosk selling lobster rolls outside. Sure, pizza and seafood are pretty different foods, but how hard can it be to screw up bread, cheese, sauce and the occasional topping? Read more »

Two kinds of dirt cheap poultry, both delicious. Courtesy of Serious Eats NY.

• Apparently one of Ruben’s Empanadas can fill you up. [Lunch Studio]
• Recommended eating after a city hall wedding, including Carl’s Steaks. [Fork in the Road]
• Roman pizza can be had at Piazza Seventeen. [Eater NY]
• Chinatown’s Big Wong King has two good lunches for less than $4. [Serious Eats NY]