Posted by Andrea H at 11:18 am, June 8th, 2012 under In The Forums.
The Twitter Tracker Is Attempting Health With Juice, Now Eat This On It: What's on the ML Downtown Twitter Tracker today? Well, we have Our Hero's at Wall & Water, Mexicue at Water & Broad, Rickshaw is on Wall St., Korilla's at Varick & Vandam, Phil's Steaks is at Water & John and Bongo Brothers is at Old Slip & Water. The WFC lot has Frites N Meats, Red Hook Lobster, Taim, Andy's Italian Ice and Milk Truck, and Lent Space has Juice Pirate, Kimchi Tacos, Palenque, Now Eat This, Eddie's Pizza and Coolhaus.
Posted at 11:16 am, June 7th, 2012 | 0 Comments
Hudson Squarers, You Can Get Free Cookies RIGHT NOW!: The Sweetery truck has been giving out free food all week, but mostly in Midtown. They're at Hudson & King right this minute giving out free horse-themed cookies for some tie in to the Belmont Stakes. Even if you're not a fan of horse racing...free cookies! I would guess they'll only be there until noonish before going off to their next destination, so be hasty.
Posted at 10:44 am, June 7th, 2012 | 0 Comments
Ever since Cafe 41 opened in the space formerly occupied by beloved deli Patuca on John St. (btw. Nassau & William), they’ve been trying to find their hook. First, it was trying to lure people in with healthy eats, but then they started offering $1 slices and that’s when I took notice. Because I think we all know that while people don’t really want a chopped salad, they do want dirt cheap pizza.
Posted by Andrea H at 10:14 am, June 7th, 2012 under Cafe 41, Financial District, Italian, Pizza.
Bistro Truck Has A New Steak Sandwich: On your mid-week ML Downtown Twitter Tracker...the WFC lot has Mexico Blvd., Mike N Willie's, Rickshaw, Valducci's and Wafels & Dinges (also at Greenwich & Murray and 60 Wall), Red Hook Lobster and Frites N Meats are at Hudson & King, Bian Dang's at Coenties & Water, Bob & Jo are at Varick & King and Bistro Truck's at Old Slip & Water with a steak sandwich. Lent Space has Andy's Italian Ice, Chinese Mirch, Bongo Brothers, Gorilla Cheese, Munchie Mobile and Phil's Steaks.
Posted at 11:16 am, June 6th, 2012 | 0 Comments
Last week, we at Midtown Lunch: Downtown got a tip that Nio’s Trinidad Roti truck was parked directly in front of Veronica’s Kitchen cart on Water between Maiden Lane & Pine. I went in search of the truck on Monday in the rain and when I didn’t see it parked in that spot, I turned around to see what the situation was at Veronica’s, only to find that the cart was MIA and Nio’s had taken their regular spot on Front St. My brain screamed “WHAT?!,” but I calmed down enough to realize that maybe Veronica’s wasn’t out that day because of the non-stop rain. So I stepped up to the window at Nio’s, feeling like I was betraying an old friend, and ordered some lunch.
Posted by Andrea H at 10:00 am, June 6th, 2012 under Caribbean, Financial District, Nio's Trinidad Roti Truck, Truck.
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 Thomas who works in the area of Soho that gets most of the food truck traffic, and takes full advantage of it.
Name: Thomas Whittle
Occupation: Broadcast design (on-air visuals for a certain humor-centric TV channel)
Where you work: Hudson and King
Age: 29
Favorite kinds of food: BBQ and Asian-influenced cuisine, specifically anything where weird animal parts are involved.
Least favorite foods: Anything I’ve had a thousand times before is hard to get excited about. Italian food is generally enjoyable, but I’ve had it so many ways over the years that I can’t imagine a scenario where I’d get excited about it…which has caused some tension in certain relationships I’ve had.
Favorite Lunches Downtown: Where we work, it’s all about the rise of food trucks…everyone I work with follows more than a few trucks on Twitter to figure out what is going to be for lunch on a given day. Since there haven’t traditionally been a lot of options here, we’ve taken to the recent growth of the food truck trend ravenously. Starting with the Taiwanese fried chicken from the Bian Dang truck (which has sadly abandoned our location…what gives?!), we’ve flocked to the Schnitzel & Things truck, Red Hook Lobster Pound truck, Korilla BBQ, and more. I’m pretty excited that the Cinnamon Snail has decided to grace our neck of the woods, and am always looking for that next great mobile food option. When I’m feeling fancy, they just started offering lunch at the West Village Fatty ‘Cue, which while not exactly cheap, is most certainly delicious.
Posted by Andrea H at 12:15 pm, June 5th, 2012 under PROFILE: Downtown Lunch'er.
