Midtown Lunch

Though we have been lacking volunteers lately, on certain Tuesdays we turn over the site to a different lunch’er for his or her recommendations for the best lunch in Philadelphia. This week it’s DJ, a college guy with a taste for tacos. 

Name: DJ

Age: 19

Occupation: student at University of Pennsylvania majoring in biochemistry and biology, minoring in Spanish; I research part-time in Dr. Todd Ridky’s lab at Penn investigating melanoma

Where in Philly do you Work?: In my room mostly; I do research at the Clinical Research Building next to HOP

Favorite Kind of Food: German sausage & aged gouda cheese

Least Favorite Kind of Food: baked beans

Favorite Place(s) to Eat Lunch in Philly: Nan Zhou Hand Drawn Noodle House at 1022 Race Street; brisket noodle soup with hot sauce. Tacos Don Memo on 38th & Walnut; burrito with horchata drink. Federal Donuts at 1219 2nd St.; French toast donut.

“Go-To” Lunch Place You and Your Coworkers Eat at Too Often?  Honest Tom’s Taco Shop

If you could work anywhere (just because of the lunch) where would it be and why?Avignon, France for the food market Les Halles; I could sit in their open-air space and eat their aged gouda, fresh baguettes, and assorted olives all day everyday

Is there anything you’d like to ask the Philly Lunch readers?You have $5.30. Knowing that the sales tax in Pennsylvania is 6%, this gives you $5 of purchasing power. How do you mix-and-match the following: $1 McDouble, $2 Federal Donut, $3 Bubble Tea, $4 worth of aged gouda, $5 hand drawn noodle soup

FYI: I’d go with 2 McDoubles and a bubble tea

Interested in sending in a lunch profile? Know someone with good taste worthy of a nomination? Email me at jamie@midtownlunch.com