Midtown Lunch

Get Half Off At Waterstone Grill: There's a deal on Scoutmob today for 50% off at Waterstone Grill on Pearl St. in the Financial District - a place that's normally out of reach for most lunch'ers.

Check Out Downtown Eateries At Dine Around: If you're indecisive about where to eat lunch tomorrow you might want to check out the Dine Around Downtown event where 50 restaurants from the Financial District, Battery Park City and Tribeca serve food at the Chase Manhattan Plaza on Nassau St. (btw. Cedar & Pine). Most of these are pricier restaurants (aka, out of the ML price range), and you can try their food for between $3 and $7. There's a list of participating restaurants here and the event goes from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., unless it rains in which case it will be held at the same time on Wednesday.

Desi Food Truck, Free Whoopie Pies On The Twitter Tracker: You have a shot at free sweets today with Sweetery giving out whoopie pies starting at noon on Hudson. Elsewhere on the ML Downtown Twitter Tracker, Schnitzel & Things is on Hudson, Frying Dutchmen and Gorilla Cheese are on Water, the Desi Food Truck is at Hanover Square and Souvlaki GR is at Old Slip. La Cense is on Barclay.

Snapple Promotion Means Free Eddie’s, Souvlaki GR Today: You may or may not drink Snapple, but you might want to pretend to like the stuff today because they're teaming up with a couple of food trucks downtown. Eddie's Pizza Truck is set to have free food and beverage on Hudson St. and Souvlaki GR is doing the same thing at Old Slip. You have from 11 to 1 p.m. to eat for free...you know what to do.

The Schnitz Is Back, And A Possible Free Food Alert: Looks like the Schnitzel & Things truck is putting the Financial District back in its rotation - according to the ML Downtown Twitter Tracker they're on Water today. Cupcake Stop is on Varick and Sweetery is on Hudson, possibly giving food away for free at noon through a promotion with Yahoo giving away blackberry whoopie pies. Souvlaki Truck is, per usual, at Old Slip and if you want something cold you can hit up Van Leeuwen ice cream truck at Prince & Greene.

Shake Shack Was Just The Beginning For BPC: Although once a depressing neighborhood for lunch options, Battery Park City is getting more good stuff later this year on top of recently-opened Shake Shack. Goldman Sachs is telling employees they have even more options coming to BPC including Francois Payard Bakery, Battery Place Market,  Harry's Italian, Blue Smoke, North End Grill, True Food Organics and an Asian fusion place called Wei West. There's also the pizzeria being opened in the WFC by the guys from Ed's Lobster Bar. Let's hope some of these will be within ML price range.

Brave Oven-Like Temps For Bistro Truck, Wafels: I know standing on a hot sidewalk for food sounds terrible today, but let's support those baking inside of trucks/carts to feed us! On the ML Downtown Twitter Tracker we have Wafels & Dinges' truck at Hanover Sq. and a cart on Greenwich. Bian Dang is on Water along with Bistro Truck which is being filmed for some TV show. Gorilla Cheese and Korilla BBQ are on Varick and Big D's and Joyride are on Hudson. Souvlaki Truck is at Old Slip and another Korilla is on Front.