Midtown Lunch

Blend, Gorilla Cheese, Bian Dang In Lower FiDi: On the mid-week ML Downtown Twitter Tracker...Bob & Jo's at Varick & King, Coolhaus is at Spring & Mercer, Fun Buns is at Varick & Vandam, Frites N Meats is at Hudson & King while the Lent Space lot has Snap Truck and Chinese Mirch. The WFC lot has Mike N Willie's with a fish and chips special, Wafels & Dinges, Nuchas, Mexico Blvd. and Rickshaw, and in the FiDi, Bistro Truck's at Old Slip & Water, Gorilla Cheese has a meatball parm melt at Hanover Sq., Milk Truck and Wafels & Dinges are on Wall St., Bian Dang's at Coenties Slip & Water, Jiannetto's is at Front & Wall and Blend is at Water & Broad.

Braised Short Ribs At Calexico Cart: It's another great day for outdoor lunching, and your mobile options in Soho include Mexico Blvd., Rickshaw, Taim, and Wafels & Dinges at Lent Space, Fishing Shrimp and Bistro Truck at Varick & Charlton and Calexico's at Prince & Wooster with short ribs. The ML Downtown Twitter Tracker tells us the FiDi has Jiannetto's at Wall & Front, Bob & Jo's at Coenties Slip & Water, Cinnamon Snail at Wall & Water, Hibachi Heaven at Water & Broad and Bongo Brothers, Cupcake Crew, Rickshaw, Frites N Meats and Phil's Steaks at the WFC lot.

Chinese Mirch, Our Hero’s In The FiDi: On the Monday ML Downtown Twitter Tracker...Cinnamon Snail is at Varick & King, Hibachi Heaven's at Varick & Charlton, Domo Taco's at Varick & Vandam and Crisp is at Hudson & King. In super Lower Manhattan, the WFC lot has Taim, Shorty's, Gorilla Cheese, Kimchi Taco and Sweetery, Comme Ci Comme Ca's at Old Slip & Water, Bongo Brothers is at Front & Gouverneur, and Our Hero's is at Wall & Water along with Chinese Mirch with new brown rice bowls.

Eddie’s Pizza’s On Wall St.: Your food options in the FiDi on the ML Downtown Twitter Tracker today include Domo Taco at Water & Broad, Hibachi Heaven at Old Slip & Water, Toum back at Old Slip & Front, Frites N Meats and Shorty's cheese steaks at Hanover Sq., Milk Truck at Wall & William, Eddie's Pizza and Our Hero's at Wall & Water, while the WFC lot has Big D's Grub, Morris Truck, Mexicue, Schnitzel & Things and Coolhaus. Soho's a little thin on trucks but you do have Bongo Brothers at Varick & Charlton, Blend at Hudson & King and Calexico out at Prince & Wooster.

Many Meats On The Twitter Tracker Today: Let's hope the rain holds off until after lunchtime today. Your options on the ML Downtown Twitter Tracker are...Phil's Steaks at Water & John, Mexicue at Water & Broad, Comme Ci Comme Ca at Old Slip & Water, Souvlaki GR and Toum Lebanese at Old Slip & Front, and the WFC lot has Milk Truck, Frites N Meats, Taim, Chinese Mirch and Andy's Italian Ice. In Soho, Hibachi Heaven's at Hudson & King, while Lent Space has Kimchi Taco, Eddie's Pizza, Juice Pirate and Palenque.

Fun Buns, Bob & Jo in Hudson Square: The ML Downtown Twitter Tracker has Bongo Brothers at Varick & Charlton, Bob & Jo at Varick & King, Coolhaus at a TBA location, Fun Buns at Varick & Vandam, Frites N Meats at Hudson & King, while the Lent Space has Milk Truck, Chinese Mirch and Cruisin' Kitchen. The FiDi has Toum at Front & Wall, Wafels & Dinges at 60 Wall, Our Hero's at Wall & Water, Bian Dang at Coenties Slip & Water, and Mexico Blvd., Mike N Willie's, Wafels & Dinges, Rickshaw and Nuchas are at the WFC lot.

Soho Street Food Vendors Among Group Suing City: There was a press conference this morning where the Street Vendor Project announced a lawsuit against the New York Police Department and City of New York in the wake of a sweep of street vendors in May that included some food carts. According to a press release from the SVP, a sweep of the lower part of Broadway in Soho by uniformed and plainclothes officers led to them allegedly confiscating five vendors' property which they say was done illegally. Among the alleged infractions were cart height restrictions, which I'm assuming refers to the food vendors. If you haven't bought a ticket to this year's Vendy Awards yet, its proceeds help SVP do work like representing these vendors.