Midtown Lunch

Oliva Gourmet on Broadway (btw. Vesey & Barclays) seems to court the tourists with promises of plentiful seating and alcohol, since it’s right by the stop for those double decker site seeing buses. Now they’re courting the rest of us with a 99 cent plain slice. The signs don’t say there are restrictions on when the slices are offered, and it has to be better than the 99 cent slice at Papa John’s at Maiden Lane & Nassau. Now if only the other $1 pizza shops would trickle further down Broadway. Joey’s Pepperoni Pizza, I’m looking at you.

A walk past Oliva Gourmet on Broadway (btw. Vesey & Barclay) revealed a new sign for Russian blini, which didn’t surprise me because this place also started serving alcohol at a bar in the back last summer for all the tourists flocking to the tour bus stop outside. For $6.50, they may be worth a shot at stepping inside this place.