Grilled Shrimp Alert: via winedanddined: "You have to check out the new marinated grilled shrimp specials at 100% Halal & Healthy Cart (on 55th & Park). $7 & can be w/ salad or platter." Oh yeah? That could be interesting...
Posted at 10:50 am, August 7th, 2009 | 2 Comments
Got some sad news for sushi fans in the inbox yesterday afternoon from Lunch’er Christina: “Went to Norimaki today, they have a sign up by the counter that says their last day is 8/28—they are closing.” Decent and cheap sushi is tough to find in Midtown, and Norimaki was one of the better options for that area. It will be missed.
Posted by Zach Brooks at 4:00 pm, August 6th, 2009 under In the Forums.
With all the bad stories we’ve been hearing about vendors lately, it’s good to read about one who is giving back. (Sadly I don’t think poor Midtown office workers qualify as “needy”.)
Posted by Zach Brooks at 2:15 pm, August 6th, 2009 under Jamaican Dutchy.
Wafel Blog: I don't normally read the Wafels and Dinges Truck blog, but I think I might start. Did you know Geraldo Rivera was a big fan of the waffles? And the owner of the truck was arrested two weeks ago for arguing with a cop about what constitutes a legal spot to vend. (Plus he had an unpaid parking ticket.)
Posted at 1:15 pm, August 6th, 2009 | 4 Comments
I love how after three years of doing Midtown Lunch, plus Street Meat Palooza and Street Meat Palooza 2 there are still chicken and lamb over rice surprises left in Midtown. Take Little Morocco, on the NE corner of 39th & 7th, which I actually read about in the Midtown Lunch forums (yes, they are good for something!) Lunch’er NoPickles posted about the cart under the title “Spiciest Street Meat Cart”, which naturally caught my attention. After reading his rave, I had to check it out.
Posted by Zach Brooks at 11:30 am, August 6th, 2009 under 39th btw. B'way+7th, Cart, Little Morocco, Street Meat.
El Rey del Sabor has added a third cart to their Mexican food empire. They’ve been flirting with the just out of ML bounds location on 28th Street and 6th Ave. for months now, but made it a permanent spot a few weeks ago. This should considered great news for lunchers in the southern part of Midtown. Their other two carts are located on 60th & 3rd, and 49th & 3rd.
Posted by Zach Brooks at 10:30 am, August 6th, 2009 under Cart, El Rey Del Sabor, Mexican, Out of Bounds.
It sounds like the cops were pretty busy with vendor complaints on Monday. There was the ice cream fist fight on 50th & 6th, the Schnitzel Truck twittered that cops were called to a vendor fight downtown, and there was this thing on 45th & 5th…
I got word a few weeks ago that the owner of Kwik Meal, Muhammed Rahman, has a brother who opened a new cart on 45th & 5th, and was selling biriyani (in addition to chicken and lamb over rice.) Even though this new venture is not associated with Kwik Meal (this year’s Street Meat Palooza winner) in any way, I was still excited to try the food- after all, cooking skills could be genetic, right? Sadly though, by the time I made it over to the corner, the brother’s cart had disappeared.
You may remember that Kwik Meal, which currently has four carts in their empire, used to park another cart on the corner of 45th & 5th called Kwik Meal 2, before it was stolen from the garage it was parked in. They still operate Kwik Gourmet on 47th and Park, Quick Delight on 45th & 3rd, and Kwick Meal IV on 37th and 6th. But 45th and 5th has remained Kwik Meal-less… until Monday.
Posted by Zach Brooks at 9:30 am, August 6th, 2009 under Fahima Halal Food, Kwik Meal, Street Vendor Issues.
Just Happy to be Mentioned: The new NYT food critic Sam Sifton didn't answer our question from yesterday, but in answering somebody elses did mention that he doesn't trust the opinions posted on Midtown Lunch and other sites (but likes the photos and information.) It's ok. I don't trust bloggers either!
Posted at 8:30 am, August 6th, 2009 | 29 Comments
“Uh… excuse me. Do you know if Sam Sifton eats here?”
If you read any other food blog in the universe besides this one, than by now you know that the New York Times is replacing their food critic, Frank Bruni, with Sam Sifton. Unlike Bruni, who probably didn’t spend a ton of time in the New York Times building (on 8th Ave. btw. 40+41st), Sifton is the culture editor for the paper and one would assume is there every day. Which leads me to wonder… where does Sam Sifton each lunch every day?
While everybody else is probably wondering what kind of food critic he’ll make- I’m more curious about whether or not anybody has noticed this guy eating at Popeye’s or Ying Du. What about Pick-a-Pita, or even the (hilariously named) Time’s Halal Food cart on the corner of 40th and 8th?
Posted by Zach Brooks at 4:15 pm, August 5th, 2009 under New York Times Building (41st & 8th).
