PROFILE: Midtown Lunch’er “Lawrence”
Every Tuesday I turn over the site to a different Midtown Lunch’er for his or her recommendations for the best lunch in Midtown. This week it’s Lawrence, a sports guy and neophyte blogger with a lot of favorite lunches…
Name: Lawrence
Age: 23
Occupation: Production Assistant (and author of the blog http://nyceats.wordpress.com/ )
Where in Midtown do you Work?:SportsNet New York
Favorite Kind of Food: Burgers, ribs, pizza, and spicy Thai food
Least Favorite Kind of Food: Anything served in the Midtown mega-lunch store
Favorite Place to Eat Lunch in Midtown: The Bacon Cheeseburger w/ Fried Onions from Five Guys (55th btw. 5+6th). 2 Cheeseburgers with everything but mayo and mustard, an order of fries, and a Sam Adams from Burger Joint (56th btw. 6+7th). Extra Spicy Pork Drunken Noodles from Topaz Thai (56th btw. 6+7th). Chilorio Mexican style pulled pork tacos, corn chips, salsa, and Watermelon Aqua Fresca from Pampano Taqueria(3rd Ave. btw. 49+50th). Trainwreck cheese fries, Pulled Pork Sandwich,and Banana Pudding from Virgil’s BBQ (44th btw. 5+6th). 1 regular slice, 1 sicilian (only if fresh) or grilled chicken hero w/ fresh mozz, roasted peppers and roasted eggplant from Bella Napoli Pizza (49th btw. 6+7th). The G3 (grilled roast beef, fried onions, L & T, pickles, bacon, american cheese) with Russian Dressing instead of A1 or Smoked Chicken Deluxe (chicken cutlet, american cheese,grilled pastrami, L & T, with russian) from Lenny’s.
The “go-to” lunch place you and your co-workers eat at too often: Though I don’t EVER eat there, my co-workers love Cafe Duke, I hate it, it smells funky outside, which is never a good sign,and I know at least 6 people who’ve gotten violently ill from eatingsandwiches or food from the buffet.
Place you discovered thanks to Midtown Lunch: Kati Roll, Tony the Dragon, Carnegie John’s, Jannero’s (I’m guessing he means Jiannetto’s Pizza Truck? -zach), & the Daisy Mays Cart.
If you could work anywhere (just because of the lunch) where would it be and why? The Nexus of the Universe (1st and 1st for non-Seinfeld fans). It’s close to the LES (Georgia’s Eastside BBQ, Katz’s, Tiny’s) and the East Village (too many to list) and ABC City. No greater concentration of cheap and awesome eateries.
Interesting that you mention Bella Napoli on 49th btw. 6+7th. It has sort of flown under the radar on this site- I think because I take it for granted. Bella Napoli is right downstairs from my office building, and the go-to pizza place for my entire office. It can get a little pricey, but it certainly is good pizza. And once I had a meatball sub there that made me want a nap for the rest of the afternoon…
They actually have an amazing video up on You Tube that may warrant the invention of a new term: The Pizza Porno. Check it out after the jump…
The food. The music. The slow motion editing. The four fat tourist ladies from the Midwest masquerading as “Times Square Workers”. And that’s just the first 2 minutes of a 5 minute video.
And just when you think it’s over (about 3:30 in)… slow motion shots of uncooked pizza toppings! Watching all 5 minutes of the video, I couldn’t help but think- somebody actually took the time to make this thing. Brilliant…
As always, if you want to be the next Profiled: Midtown Lunch’er, email me at zach@midtownlunch.com
Posted by Zach Brooks at 9:41 am, November 6th, 2007 under PROFILE: Midtown Lunch'er.
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Lawrence – you would love it if DDR would get together with you… both of you could wear silly costumes and get it on.
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It only took a year and a half, but I believe we have Midtown Lunch’s first lame gay slur!
Congratulations, everybody!
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Topaz’s drunken noodles are to die for.
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It’s like Will & Grace with typo’s.
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I’ll keep this to food because that’s what this IS all about. Moose, topaz drunken noodles are effin serious. The pork is the best kind, it’s more like slice roast pork you’d find in Chinatown then it is just shredded pork. Money.
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Calling You Out- this is a food website relax just because your father touched you at night doesnt mean you need to whip out the gay insults…and call my brothers costume lame but ive witnessed firsthand its success with multiple girls and it cost him nothing bc he already had the superman shirt…so if cheap and successful equals lame then put your hooker of a mom right up on that list
– the much less polite younger brother
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Those eyebrows are quite frankly wrong.
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haha I can’t believe I actually know this luncher —- Lawrence aka Woody, great to see fellow BSDCers eating well in midtown
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Lawrence – you totally owe your younger bro lunch at Virgil’s for his rabid defense of you.
Matt – best tuna melt near Bryant Park is at the Conde Nast cafeteria. Lurk around the park and make friends with a Conde Nastie to get in.
And I second the hush puppies at Virgil’s.
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woody — interesting profile; I agree that more information is better than less. thanks for staying on point
little bro — defending big bro good; telling us he is successful with the ladies, calling someone’s mom a whore and a dad a incestuous pedophile not exactly in the spirit of this site — maybe wait until you graduate college (and gain a bit of maturity) before writing again
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Best thread in months!
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I know! I can’t believe I was doing work yesterday instead of reading this!
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Round 2, anyone?
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$50 on the Gay Superman
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What I began as a few constructive criticisms soon turned into Gay Superman shoving something down my throat (post at November 6, 2007, 5:43 pm). Oh how he wishes. If it weren’t for that threat, this wouldn’t have gotten so ugly. And Gay Superman’s brother took it WAY over the top. If you’re still using daddy’s credit card, that speaks volumes alone and I won’t go further.
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Uppercut!
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As I told a new friend recently, I’ve lived by a simple philosophy for a long time: “Fuck the Haters.” ‘Nuff said.
Happy Eating All.
Check out my blog nyceats.wordpress.com for everything burgers, ribs, and delicious.
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I guess everyone who doesn’t agree with you is a hater then, right? Hilarious. Your blog sucks by the way. Oh, oops, I’m a hater now. Midtown lunch is way better.
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First Dumbledore now Superman is gay………………….i blame Fox news.
He looks like a feindish DNA experiment between George Bush jnr and David Hasselhoff