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 Peter who has the unfortune of working in the World Financial Center where the options sound depressing. But he’s found a couple of Mexican places to soothe his wounds.

Name: Peter

Occupation: Business intelligence

Where you work: World Financial Center (i.e. culinary wasteland)

Age: 37

Favorite Kinds of Food: Mexican, Mexican and more Mexican

Least Favorite Foods: Pretty much anything that’s made in the World Financial Center (that includes you, PJ Clarke’s and your revamped burgers)

Favorite Lunches Downtown: Tajin on Greenwich (btw. Edgar & Rector) –  big fan of their tacos rancheros; Samantha’s on S. End Ave (nr. Rector Place) –  one of the very few places to grab a good sandwich. Get a meatball hero when it’s cold; Alan’s Falafel on Broadway (btw. Liberty & Cedar) – my preference over Sam’s; or Sophie’s Cuban (Multiple Locations) –  the green sauce is liquid crack.

The “go-to” lunch place you and your co-workers eat at too often: Devon & Blakely in the World Financial Center. There’s one right outside the elevator bank. It’s so convenient I just can’t help myself sometimes).

Places downtown you discovered thanks to Midtown Lunch: Alan’s Falafel and A-Pou’s Taste Cart on Liberty (btw. Broadway & Nassau).  I would have included the Biryani House Cart on Liberty (btw. Broadway & Nassau) but it’s been very disappointing the last few times I’ve been.

Dream job location, purely for lunch purposes, and why: I don’t ask for much.  I’d gladly go back to my old location (not the old job though of course) on 44th between 5th and 6th.  There were no food trucks in the area when I worked up there.  Now when I look at the Twitter Tracker, it seems like there’s constantly a truck I drool over parked around there.  I would do anything for more variety that doesn’t require a long walk.

Anything you’d like to ask the downtown Midtown Lunch readers?: If I’ve somehow missed a place that has better tacos that Tajin, please let me know.  And no, that’s not going to be Caliente.  Also, are there any other street carts closer to my area that I might be missing out on?

Have you tried The Bigger Place at Warren & W. Broadway? I haven’t had the tacos, but everything else I’ve tried was decent. As for street carts, I really liked the street meat at the C&H Halal cart on Chambers & W. Broadway.  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 downtownnyc@midtownlunch.com.