Downtown Links (The “Everyone Will Be Phoning It In Next Week” Edition)

Fishballs really need to be more widely used. Courtesy of Food in Mouth.

FiDi Getting Some Truck Love: It's a little quiet on the ML Downtown Twitter Tracker today...Rickshaw is on Wall St. and Frites N Meats is on Water. You can also check out something called the Hangover Burger at the Burger Shoppe.

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Warm Up With Sweets and Mexi Fusion: If you can handle the cold there are a couple of truck options today on the ML Downtown Twitter Tracker...the Sweetery is parked on Hudson with three bean chili and Mexicue is on Water. Rickshaw is at both Hanover Sq. and Houston, and the Calexico cart has homemade chorizo.

Bar Specials For The Dainty Eater At Jim Brady’s

Since we (OK, I) don’t do a happy hour segment on the site, I don’t go to very many of the drinking establishments downtown. This is kind of a shame since we have some very dirty and very classy places that are probably serving good food. A few of these bars do lunch specials that fall in the ML price range and I also kind of forget about them unless I happen to repeatedly walk by a signboard advertising a decent lunch special and then actually go check it out. This was how I ended up at Jim Brady’s on Maiden Lane (btw. William & Gold). The bar specials had called out to me too many times to resist. Read more »

Taim Rolls Back Downtown, Burger Special: We have quality over quantity today on the ML Downtown Twitter Tracker...Taim Mobile is back on Hudson although in a slightly different location, Wafels & Dinges is at Hanover Sq. and today's deal at the Wall St. Burger Shoppe is a porterhouse burger with a free side.

Giving The Hot Soup Cart A Second Chance After A Bad First Impression

Anyone who works in the vicinity of Wall St. is probably familiar with the Hot Soup Cart that’s parked on the corner of Pearl. Chris had tried two of the soups there last winter and was smitten enough with the offerings to change his opinion about soup. My first trip to the cart when it was down on Broad St. was not quite such a success. But hey, I’m all about second chances so I headed back to the cart the other day when I wasn’t feeling so hot to see if I had just caught them on a bad day the first time. Read more »

Have You Sounded Off On Your 2010 Favorites?: If you have burning opinions on what the best pizza and Vietnamese food is downtown you should let all of us know. The ML Downtown Best of 2010 voting is open in the forums and there's still plenty of time to list your favorites.