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Midtown Has All The Food Trucks Giving Out Freebies: There's some promo for a new TV show involving free food from trucks, so pickings are a little slim downtown today. What we do have on the ML Downtown Twitter Tracker are Sweetery at Hudson & King, Mike N Willie's is at Front & Gouverneur (but having generator problems), Gorilla Cheese has a jerk chicken melt at Hudson & King and Our Heros is at Wall & Water. Phil's Steaks, Big D's Grub, Cupcake Crew, Eddie's Pizza and Bongo Brothers are at the WFC lot.

Posted at 11:17 am, April 3rd, 2012 | 0 Comments

PROFILE: Downtown Lunch’er “Casey”

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 Casey who has thus far not gotten any lunch recs from this site (sad!), but at least discovered the deals at Peep.

Name: Casey

Title: Associate Director – Fashion + Beauty Practice

Where you work: Varick & Vandam

Age: 26

Favorite kinds of food: Indian, sushi, Korean

Least favorite foods: Ethiopian

Favorite lunches downtown: Peep on Prince (btw. Thompson & Sullivan) for their lunch special which has great basil noodles

The “go-to” lunch place you and your co-workers eat at too often: Pret a Manger (Multiple Locations), Hale & Hearty (Multiple Locations), and the local deli.

Places downtown you discovered thanks to Midtown Lunch: Downtown? [Ed. note: Casey unfortunately said she hasn’t made any discoveries from this site! Clearly I must get up to that area of Soho more often].

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Posted by Andrea H at 10:00 am, April 3rd, 2012 under PROFILE: Downtown Lunch'er.

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Cinnamon Snail’s On Wall St.!: Schnitzel & Things is at Hudson & King today as is Crisp, while the WFC lot has Mexicue, Gorilla Cheese, Red Hook Lobster, Kimchi Tacos and Taim Mobile. The ML Downtown Twitter Tracker also has Bongo Brothers at Varick & Vandam, Comme Ci Comme Ca's at Old Slip & Water with a Beirut chicken sandwich and Cinnamon Snail found parking today at Wall & Water.

Posted at 11:22 am, April 2nd, 2012 | 0 Comments

Braving The Line At Phil’s Steaks For My Second Cheese Steak Ever

I’m sure you all think I eat things like cheese steaks on a regular basis, but up until Phil’s Steaks launched its truck and started parking down here, our only options in the Financial District for this marriage of meat, cheese and bread was Carl’s Steaks (which isn’t even in the FiDi) or one of the varieties from street meat carts and delis that I’d just rather not chance. The only other time I’ve had one of these was in Philadelphia and it was so unmemorable that I can’t even remember where I got it from.

When the truck first launched, I had no time to stand in the long lines, and instead we got a take from some dedicated lunch’ers who did. One day last week I walked by and saw that the line seemed to be moving quickly, so I jumped in to see what all of the fuss on Twitter about these sandwiches is about.

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Posted by Andrea H at 10:30 am, April 2nd, 2012 under Cheesesteak, Phil's Steaks Truck, Sandwiches, Truck.

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‘wichcraft Has $3 Peanut Butter Sandwiches Today: If you're looking for a childhood favorite for lunch and are sick of grilled cheese, you should know that 'wichcraft locations, including the one at Greenwich & Beach, are offering a $3 peanut butter & jelly sandwich today in honor of National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day (yes, that's a thing). I will be celebrating this occasion with a spoon and a jar of peanut butter.

Posted at 9:30 am, April 2nd, 2012 | 0 Comments

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