Midtown Lunch

I’m sure hardcore Improv Everywhere fans have seen this already (because this “mission” happened almost five months ago) but I just saw it yesterday for the first time and felt the need to post it… not just because it takes place in the Trump Tower atrium (on 56th and 5th) but also because I too kind of love lunch.

Check out the video after the jump…

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Photo courtesy of Loco Moca

• Superman eats at a still not entirely open Kyochon, and flat out pans the popular chicken as “one note” and “flavorless” [NYC Food Guy]
• And this guy didn’t like them either [Loco Moca]
• Seeing that Kyochon was a madhouse, these guys smartly went to E-Mo [Always Hungry]
• Our man Danny just can’t resist the Fish Filet [Food in Mouth]
• The regular NYC slice is better than the fancy pizza at Naples 45 [Slice]
• Speaking of new chains on 5th Ave that were packed on opening day [Eater]

“First we drank some whiskey
then we had some gin
then we had tequila that’s what did me in”
-Boat Train by Shane MacGowan

A midweek St. Patrick’s Day can be a dubious proposition. Think about it, you can go balls out and join the parade and the eventual debauchery that ensues, and let’s not even mention the green beer society that ends up being the green puke society. You can opt to stay a little off the beaten path but most likely you’ll still heed the siren’s call of Paddy’s day specials and free corned beef. Come the next work day it’s all bloodshot eyes, trembling hands and throbbing temples. Your only hope is that your coworkers will be too busy nursing their own hangovers to notice yours.

Here some local bars to help in your travels and may the luck of the Irish preserve you!

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Fork in the Road released their 10 Best Sandwiches in New York list, and unsurprisingly none of them are in Midtown.  But we did score two in the “runners up” list: ‘wichcraft’s white anchovy, soft-cooked egg, salsa verde, and frisee (whatever, it’s a chain), and Virgil’s Owensboro lamb sandwich (on 44th btw. B’way+6th). At $14 the lamb sandwich is way out of the ML price range, but call us intrigued. Anybody had this thing yet? And would you chose it over the Sophie’s Cuban fried pork and plantains sandwich? And what about all of Certe’s Sandwiches (on 55th btw. 5+6th)? Or Ma Peche’s pork banh mi? What Midtown sandwich do you think should have been on the list? Or were they right in snubbing us…

Related:
The Midtown Lunch Sandwich Challenge

And here we are, the fourth Friday in Lent. You can do it Catholics, two more to go! We’ve covered some of the fried fish options, but what if you gave up fried things (Brownie!) or have been sick enough that someone (Zach!) told you that if you’ve called in sick to work on Wednesday, you shouldn’t go have burgers off a truck as a sick-day lunch. Well, then it would be Asian vegetable soup time.

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Now that Downtown has its very own section of the site, what are we going to post on Fridays at 10am? Answer… how about a new column devoted to those lunches just south of the ML boundaries. Please give a warm welcome to Jason Lam from the blog Me So Hungry. Every Friday at 10am he’ll post about lunches in Murray Hill south, Grammercy, Flatiron, and everything in between… or as we’ll call it from now on: Flatiron Lunch.

Around the corner on 29th from the Broadway sweatshirt and perfume wholesalers, lies some great spicy South Asian (Pakistani, Indian, Bangladeshi) food at two neighboring restaurants with similar food and prices. One is upstairs with a nicer dining room (although still worn down), while the downstairs one is even shabbier with bright florescent lighting. Of course nicer doesn’t always mean better… and in this case the latter is always more packed and the definitive people’s choice. This is Chandni.

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We rather enjoyed seeing NYT food critic Sam Sifton defending Midtown Lunch’ing options to his co-worker and well known food writer Mark Bittman via Twitter yesterday.  Sure, Pick a Pita (on 8th Ave. btw. 39+40th) hasn’t been as good since it moved out of their semi-hidden 38th street location, but there are far worse places to work (lunch-wise) than 41st and 8th!  (And we are super curious about this “Chicken Man” you speak of…)

Related:
Sifton Not Down With Chicken House