Win a Slot at Street Meat Palooza 3
That right… it’s time.
For the past two years a select group of Midtown Lunch’ers have been chosen to converge on a single location to eat an ungodly amount of street meat, from 15 different carts in Midtown, and crown a winner. Two years ago, the Famous Halal Guys (on 53rd and 6th) took home the top prize, but last year they were unseeded by the Kwik Meal cart (on 45th & 6th). Both have been retired from competition, and this year 15 new carts will vie for the chance to be crowned the winner of Street Meat Palooza 3!
Just like previous years, Street Meat Palooza will not be open to the public. It is an invite only, blind tasting of 15 different plates of street meat. But there is a way for you to win a coveted slot at the “judges” table.
Want a chance to attend? All you have to do is nominate your favorite street meat cart in the comments and you’re registered to score a slot at Street Meat Palooza 3. But there are a few rules so please read them closely:
1. Street meat = chicken and lamb over rice with white sauce and hot sauce. Not jerk chicken. Not biriyani. Not schnitzel. Not tikka masala. It doesn’t have to necessarily be “halal” but it does have to be chicken and/or lamb over rice with white sauce and hot sauce. It’s also worth noting, the carts won’t know they’re competing. The plates of street meat will be ordered on a regular day during lunchtime, each by a different Midtown Luncher.
2. Participating in previous years doesn’t exclude a cart or truck from being nominated for SMP 3, but winning does. So Kwik Meal (on 45th and 6th) and the Famous Halal Guys cart (on the SE Corner of 53rd and 6th) will be ineligible to compete this year. But their other carts are eligible… so feel free to nominate the Kwik Gourmet cart (on 47th and Park) or the Famous Halal Guys cart on 52nd and 6th (formerly Shendy’s.)
3. Limit one comment per person, but feel free to nominate as many vendors as you wish in that one comment. The more votes a cart gets, the more likely it will be chosen to participate. Carts must be located within the Midtown Lunch’ing boundaries… that’s 8th Ave. to the West, 3rd Ave. to the East, Central Park to the North, and 32nd to the South.
4. If you are chosen to attend the event, you may be asked to bring the food from the cart that you nominated. (We’ll pay you back, of course!)
5. Nominations will close on Friday (4/23) at 6pm EST and the invites will be sent out at the beginning of next week. The judging will take place sometime in May, from noon to 1:30pm at a central location in Midtown that will only be revealed to the participants.
Good luck!
Related:
Street-Meat-Palooza: A 13 Cart Chicken/Lamb Over Rice Showdown
Street Meat Palooza 2: Our New York City Chicken/Lamb Over Rice Showdown Crowns A New Champion
Posted by Zach Brooks at 8:30 am, April 20th, 2010 under Street Meat Palooza.
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Little Morrocco.
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Another vote for XPL on 48th and Park for these reasons:
1- The food is always top quality, fresh and plentiful for a ridiculously small amount of money
2- Their rice is the best of any cart I’ve tried
3- The guys that work the truck work their asses off in all kinds of horrendous weather -
The only nominee that comes to mind is Little Morocco, 39th & 7th. Now PICK ME ALREADY and ignore these fair-weather pseudo-ML’ers who never show up on the site except when there’s a giveaway of some sort!
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I Love 53rd and 6th… nothing has beat it so far… it holds a special place in my heart….
but… when i’m really craving it for lunch… the guys at 47th and 3rd aren’t bad, their meat is more “curry”ish… but a good lunch every now and then…
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(“53rd and 6th” is not very specific.)
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XPL on 3rd and 52nd – great friendly guys. Good char to flavorful meat–awesome rice and salad with a nice kick to the hot sauce.
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Nominate XPL cart!
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I have to go with the impostor Halal cart on 53rd and 6th. That lamb is just so good. I am also the hugest fan of mayo-based white sauced.
Last week, I tried the fahima cart (next to kwik meal) and was so disappointed with the yogurt sauce that I quickly got myself some hellman’s mayo.
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Little Morocco. They add fries if you want them, their rice is delicious, and they tell my coworkers to ‘take care of [their] sister’, meaning me. Love them.
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Gonna have to go with 48th St. XPL Truck. I’m really impressed and love it, as a guy who’s sworn Halal Guys all his street-meat-eating life!
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Wait. ML, we can actually nominate Frites’N’Meats? (Just saw the Twitter post)
Well, in that case, I nominate Frites’N’Meats!!
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(UPDATE: ML, please delete this comment, I just saw your followup tweet – sorry, I thought they somehow made an exception…)
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too late. this comment will live forever in obscure innernitzimmortalityyyyy.
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::cries::
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i nominate uncle gussy’s.
zach, i hope you still remember our little agreement during that send-off party we threw you. “everyone here is invited to the next street meat palooza.” i have witnesses.
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Forgot about that! Heck, a few of us even took a couple of Walgreens sammies for the team there.
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Halal Cart @ the SW corner of 52nd street and 8th avenue
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Kebab Express on the 56th near 6th should get a shot even though their Kobideh put me in the bathroom for two days. They have nice extras that move their food up the chart. :)
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I nominate Little Morocco.
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Gotta go with my top two destinations for street meat:
XPL Halal on 48th and Park, and Trini Paki Boys on 43rd and 6th. -
Le Baguette Cafe truck across from Adham’s. Not because it’s amazing or better then the famous halal guys, but just to keep things new and exciting. We need more new carts this year! (Plus the hot sauce is killer there)
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I am also quite partial the the fake halal guys on 53rd and 6th. I like the bigger chunks of lamb and the chicken is spiced nicely!
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I’m going to say the cart on the north west corner of 33rd & 8th. I’m not sure of the name of the place, but his chicken and rice comes with big chunks of chicken (not the shredded fluff). It’s not overly seasoned nor over cooked and there is no need to destroy your taste buds by dosing it with hot sauce.
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famous guys on 53rd! so original. I just want in on the palooza
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ineligible per Zach’s point #2.
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The great thing about Little Morocco is that they give me something different every time I go there. Beans one day, french fries the next. It mixes things up. It comes down to Lil’Morocco, ex-Shendy’s, and Trini-Paki for me.