Midtown Lunch

We’ve all been there: You go to a by-the-pound buffet and have to hold back on the heavy items for fear of paying $20 for lunch. A couple of Indian restaurants in Tribeca offer all-you-can-eat lunch buffets, including Salaam Bombay on Greenwich St. (btw. Duane & Reade) and Taj Tribeca. But they’re also both a few dollars over the $10 mark that I try to not top unless it involves Russian spa cuisine. So when I saw that in addition to the eat-in buffet at Salaam Bombay, you could also stuff a takeaway container for $10 I smelled a challenge. Read more »

Normally I don’t get excited about sign boards outside of nice restaurants, but the one at Salaam Bombay on Greenwich (at Reade) called to me. They’re basically asking me to go in there, grab a to-go container and try to cram as much stuff in there as I can while still being able to close it. And it’s not even a by-the-pound situation, meaning I don’t have to skimp on the rice! I see a return trip to Tribeca in my future…