Midtown Lunch

• Downtown happy hour at Bon Chon anyone? [Downtown Eating]
• Good lunches are hard to find in the FiDi when you’re sick. [Downtown Eating]
• Taj Tribeca has a $12.95 lunch buffet, which may suck. [Downtown Eating]
• The quest to find awesome street meat rages on. [Downtown Eating]
• Are there good jury duty lunches besides Chinatown? [Downtown Eating]

I haven’t been back to check out the Biryani House cart after eating both their biryani and kati rolls the first week they opened. They were both good, but I also had my eye on the chicken tikka masala and some of the seafood over rice options. I headed over to see if the chicken tikka was any good and if they’d changed their menu at all. Basically, I was just looking for an excuse to eat street meat. Read more »

As is customary here on Midtown Lunch, every Tuesday we’ll profile a different lunch’er and get their recommendations for places to eat in Downtown NYC. This week, we have Nick Horman, who knows a thing or two about pickles and favors the Lower East Side and Village for his lunches.

Name: Nicholas Horman, aka Nicky Pickles

Occupation: Owner of a small pickle company

Where you work: Horman’s Best Pickles, Carmine St. & 6th Ave.

Age: 27

Favorite Kinds of Food: Falafel, lobster rolls, Indian, burgers,  anything pickled, Korean BBQ

Least Favorite Foods: Cheap pizza, fast food

Favorite Lunches Downtown: Luke’s Lobster (Multiple Locations) for the lobster roll, The Blind Tiger Ale House on Bleecker St. (at Jones) for the apple bacon cheddar melt (served with my pickles) and Veselka on 2nd Ave. (at 9th St.) Read more »

I am hardly ever in the area where the Open Air Cafe is, at the base of the Brooklyn Bridge and next to the gigantic 1 Centre St. building. Two of the four kiosks that make up the cafe had opened a while back, and I ate a delicious sandwich at The Pantry. Choza Taqueria was not yet open when I went over there (and neither was the now-open Sauced that serves pastas and pizza), which totally bummed me out since I really wanted tacos that day. Well, I am happy to report they’re open serving tacos, burritos, salads and a few side items (there’s also another location opening in the Flatiron soon) Let’s take a look at what was nestled in the corn tortillas, shall we? Read more »

Mmm…fat. Courtesy of Lunch with Front Studio

• If wanting to take a train to go eat this hot dog and french fries at Soho Park is wrong, then I don’t want to be right. [Lunch with Front Studio]
• A new restaurant called Bun & Co. is opening in the old Kampuchea space this weekend. I will take a tongue sandwich topped with rum bacon, please. [Grub St.]
• One of the last locations of Andrews Coffee Shop is no more, with the shuttering of the FiDi location. I will remember them for their free WiFi. [Jeremiah’s Vanishing NY]
• Luzzo’s Pizza is opening its third branch on Church St. in Tribeca in the next three months. [Crain’s]
• The caprese panino at Farinella is tasty, but will run you nearly a 10 spot if you want a real lunch. [Serious Eats NY]