Archive for April 2013

Your Head Luncher Will Be Running Away For A Couple Of Days:

In case you ever wondered where the calories in all of the lunches featured on Downtown Lunch go, the answer is: Marathon training. There won’t be any posts up for a couple of days this week as I will be using energy from all of that street meat and sandwiches (and then some) to fuel me during today's Boston Marathon. Never fear though, I will be limping my way to lunch again by mid-week!

Revisiting Koki & Vegi For Spicy Chicken From A Revamped Menu

Korean food kiosk Koki & Vegi has been going strong for a couple of years, serving office workers and tourists alike at the base of the Brooklyn Bridge.

 Apparently we haven’t visited Koki & Vegi since 2011, so I walked over on a nice day to see if they’d made any changes to the menu. It turns out they have – adding fruit juices and smoothies along with teriyaki chicken and a hot dog that appears to be topped with bulgogi.

Since I’d previously focused on the beefy items, I went for the spicy chicken on this visit and it did not disappoint.

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Downtown Links (The “It’s Finally Ice Cream Weather” Edition)

beef soup

Beef noodle soup: Lunch of champions. Via Food in Mouth.

A Look At Cuban-Fusion Tacos From Rebranded Miami Food Machine Truck

A while back, Bongo Brothers renamed its truck the Miami Food Machine and got a totally different look. The previous incarnation was all meat, all the time, in the form of sandwiches, a burger and plates with rice and beans.

Plates with rice and beans are still on offer, but now you can get sliders and tacos and there’s tofu on the menu. I decided to try some Cuban fusion tacos (in your face Korean fusion!).  Read more »

GRK’s Yogurt Bar Makes A Good Warm Weather Lunch

With warmer weather on the way, it’s time to look past hefty plates of rice and meat to lunches that won’t instantly put you in a food coma and aren’t a salad.

I’ve been meaning to check out the yogurt bar at GRK after loving the meats I’ve tried there. You can get not only frozen Greek yogurt, but fresh flown in from the mother country, with a host of sweet and savory toppings at your disposal.

For the same price as a plate of street meat you can get fancy yogurt for lunch, but should you?

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Free (Healthy) Food From The Canyon Ranch Truck This Week

This is a new one: A truck associated with the Canyon Ranch Resort is coming downtown on Thursday and Friday to serve us free food. The health resort and spa will have a truck at Wall and Water streets from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. on Thursday, and at 200 West St. from 7 to 8:30 a.m. and Wall & Water from 9 to 10 a.m. Friday.

You will not get a giant breakfast of bacon and eggs, but instead smoothies and fruit & nut bars. I know you all are not ones to turn down free food, even if it’s good for you. They’re also giving away a stay at their resort if you want to try for even more freebies.

Yogurt In Love Bringing More Self Serve Yogurt To The FiDi

Just in time for warmer weather is the appearance of Yogurt In Love on Pearl St. (btw. Wall & Pine). It’s a chain of self-serve frozen yogurt shops that seems to have a lot of pink furniture according to their Web site. No word on whether they locally source their milk like a certain drug store/fro yo source in the FiDi.