Midtown Lunch

I’m not quite sure why the stretch of Broadway bordering Tribeca is getting all of the $1 slice love, but those of us working elsewhere downtown are jealous. Roll and Go opened a location at Broadway & Franklin trafficking in pizza, gyro and breakfast sandwiches and last week Joey’s Pepperoni Pizza opened a block up the street at Broadway & White selling only slices and the odd Jamaican patty. I decided that cheap pizza was just what I needed for lunch and staged an impromptu matchup between the two places. One of them came out the clear winner, but you’ll have to click through to see what $2 worth of pizza looks and tastes like.

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Tip of the hat to Lunch’er Mike who sent in the above photo of the second downtown location of Roll & Go. The chain is bringing its $1 pizza to Canal & W. Broadway after opening a location in the lunch-barren area of Broadway & Franklin back in May, much to the glee of cheap lunch seekers and office workers. Their slices aren’t terrible and the price is right ($1, no tax!) so its a welcome addition to the area.

Since we don’t have 2 Bros. Pizza way downtown the $1 slices that are common in other parts of the city are something of a novelty here. The newly-opened Roll And Go on Broadway (at Franklin) is the only place I’m aware of (other than craptastic Papa John’s) below Canal selling slices at this price. When I got there the place was packed, but since almost everyone was getting cheese slices they had a bunch ready to go and it wasn’t long before I had food in hand.

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About a month ago, signage went up on a location of Roll And Go on Broadway (at Franklin) advertising $1 slices and an odd assortment of other food options. Well, according to lunch’er Geaufrite in the forums it looks like it’s finally open and we can all get our grubby hands on cheap-ass pizza. Since that’s kind of a lunch dead zone it’s probably best that this opened instead of yet another Subway.

If you work near City Hall or the other government buildings nearby I feel sort of bad for you (only sort of because you have Chinatown nearby), but soon you’ll have another cheap lunch option. A post in the forums alerted me to a 99 cent pizza place going in on Broadway near Canal. A walk up there revealed Roll And Go opening at Broadway & Franklin selling $1 pizza slices among an odd assortment of other foods (falafel, tortillas and bagels!). As far as I know it’s the first $1 slice place below Canal other than Papa John’s.