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Downtown Street-Meat-a-Paloooza
Posted: 10:43 am, May 8th, 2009 in Downtown Eating
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Avoid the cart on Wall and Water, the one on the citibank corner at 111 Wall. It was good the first day, but the second time I went back, it tasted like the vendor's perfume. I still gag when I think of it. My fellow street meat enthusiast highly recommends the cart at the end of Wall down from Water at the other end of Citibank (as you are going to cross over to the river). We have the XPL cart at Hanover and Wall. Then I want to check out George's Lunch Cart. I've passed it a few times on the way to One New York Plaza and it looks really good.
Hey, how about if we downtowners open our competition to more than just the regular chicken and rice?
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I think you're going to have to map that for me that's so much on Wall & Water hahaha.
How do you figure out a cart's name? I never notice/see any names on these carts!
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Some street carts have their names posted on them, for example another cart near wall and water is named Oh My Fruit. But then again the banh mi cart has no official sign... The banh mi cart doesn't need a sign :).
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I just realized I was wrong about the location of the street carts I was talking about.... wall and front street, not wall and water. sorry! plus there is the halal cart near zeytuna/Fed Reserve on Maiden Lane. the other ones would be along South Street - good one at Wall and South, George's lunch further down approximately at the location of the elevated acre. maybe one of these is the same one you are talking about?
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OK I was just out deliberately making sure I got the addresses correct. I would recommend including:
1) Alans Breakfast and Lunch (falafel cart next to Mobile Chicken Cart at Old Slip and Water, just outside of the HIP building)
2) Paxina halal chicken at Broad and S William
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Thanks Cosilicious!
BTW, do you Tweet/twitter/whatever? I Tweet'd the nyccravings truck to ask them to come to Broad/Coenties... if you get everyone you know who works down here to Tweet to them the same thing... I bet we could start a real movement! :)
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Great suggestion! And I want Treats Truck to come back. I just checked out George's Breakfast and Lunch to make sure it is worthy of being included in the Downtown Street Meat A Palooza. For today, it had to move off of South Street at Broad due to construction. It's now on whatever that cross street is just beyond the veteran's plaza across from 1 NY Plaza. Anyway I had the chicken shish kabob on a pita. It was delicious with just the right amount of white sauce. But it's not a halal cart... but they have shish kabob on a stick!!!!!
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Coenties Slip? I work above the Veteran's Plaza. Outside of Zigolini's/that weird statue?
NYC Cravings responded to my tweet with
keep an eye out on our twitter. we might change one of the days to your area. closest right now is wed by 388 greenwichAnd ditto Treats Truck, I tweeted at them but no response. I guess it wasn't that busy but $1 cookies... perfect fix for an afternoon nosh!
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argh I used to work at 388 Greenwich.... good news for my former colleagues though.
George's truck is south of Coentes Slip. (Coentes Slip, former home to Treats Truck ... I am tearing up a little here! had to get my cookie nosh at Bingo Deli instead.)
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Hey Cosi, what's your email or some way of contacting you? Taking this off-forum, lol, thx :)
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Can a jobless brooklyn girl, previously a midtowner, attend the downtown palooza? Are you gals only going to do lamb/chicken over rice or mix it up. I'd love to have a sampling of all the downtown has to offer! (you know my email right Yvo?)
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@mamacita: the downtown street meat a palooza is open to everyone particularly you! I also think we might want to mix it up. On the one hand, if you just include halal, you have standards against which you can judge. But I think we should celebrate the diversity that is downtown and just go for flat out best street cart lunch.
We might want to make up a scoring matrix, with elements like price, vendor creativity, quality, with weights ... I don't know.
Should we require at least that the meal come from a street cart that's there 5 days a week, and that it constitute an actual lunch (that is, no pure snacks) unless we want to add various categories such as "Best Dessert" etc.
@yvo, I'm trying to set up a gmail account from my bbery. I'm having problems though and I'll have to do it from home.
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I'm downtown in tribeca/Chinatown area. Im interested. I am on wall street once a week for lunch.
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Downtown peoples - which carts would you include for a downtown street meat palooza? I don't eat street meat often enough to have any really solid leads... although I personally hate the place on Water & Wall outside the AT&T store because I got sick the one time I went there (and it was gross). (Here's a pic: http://x7e.xanga.com/0aac4a6231c30196831570/b152141331.jpg) lol
I do like the place on South & ... crap, I forgot the cross street (I'll go look later). And I tried the place across from 10 Hanover Square yesterday because the banh mi cart line was RIDICULOUS. It was okay, like mini pieces of gyro meat with slightly gummy rice.
Additions? I figure we can start the ball rolling to have our own palooza!