Posted by Mamacita at 3:30 pm, March 11th, 2010 under In the Forums.
On Saturday, March 27th Niall’s Pub (218 East 52nd btw. 2+3rd) Barros Luco will be holding a special fundraiser to support aid efforts to nuestro Chile lindo after the country’s devastating 8.8 earthquake. The $30 donation at the door will enter you into a special raffle and the chance to win all sort of prizes donated by area merchants. Food will be provided by Barros Luco and Niall’s Pub will offer drink specials all night. All proceeds got to the Chilean Red Cross.
Posted by Mamacita at 2:30 pm, March 11th, 2010 under Barros Luco, Event.
Tri Tip Grill, the California based fast food chain that is taking over the old Tossed & Mendy’s spaces in the Rock Center Concourse has finally set an opening date. Construction was delayed a bit, but they’re hoping to open their doors on April 5th with an official Grand Opening on April 17th. We also snagged a copy of the menu, which (as promised) is entirely under $10. It features a whole mess of tri tip sandwiches with various toppings, plus chicken, salmon, and a portobello option (you know… for people who don’t eat steak but feel compelled to eat at a steak place!?) There’s also burgers, entrees, salads, side dishes and soups.
Check out the complete menu, after the jump…
Posted by Zach Brooks at 1:30 pm, March 11th, 2010 under Tri Tip Grill/Buckhorn Grill.
My brother just got back from a vacation to jolly old England. Out of all his trip photos, I’ll admit that I was most captivated by a photo of a chicken tikka sandwich from Subway in London. Say what? Why don’t our Subways serve chicken tikka sandwiches?!! And more importantly, where can I get a chicken tikka sandwich in midtown?
Posted by Brownie at 11:50 am, March 11th, 2010 under *Grand Central Terminal, Mashup, Minar.
*Sigh* You’ve got to love the local news… Last night CBS2 filed this overdramatized report about the perils of eating street food. Apparently two guys in New Jersey were found guilty of running an illegal (and gross) commercial kitchen out of their house in New Jersey, so it clearly calls into question the cleanliness of all street vendors (it must be dirty… look at those black and white shots of the griddles!) We’re not claiming all street vendors are clean, but it is a fact that the DOH gets far more complaints about people getting sick from restaurants than street vendors (a point glossed over in the piece.) The report ends on a lighter note, pointing to “clean” vendors like the Dosa Man, Wafels & Dinges Truck and Street Sweets as the “good guys”, and also mentions that “with more licenses expected soon” (doubtful) and “more TV chef superstars expected to get into the business” there is no end in site. Really? Maybe those people should read this.
Posted by Zach Brooks at 11:00 am, March 11th, 2010 under Street Vendor Issues, Videos.
Speaking of Yushi, they have a special running only through the month of March. Any 3 plates from their refrigerated conveyor belt sushi and dessert line is only 9.95. Green plates are excluded (of course!), but filling up on 3 of the $4.75 plates would still make this a pretty good deal.
Related:
Midtown Lunch’ers Report: Yushi’s New Refrigerated Conveyor Belt
Posted by Mamacita at 9:30 am, March 11th, 2010 under Yushi.
Burger Heaven on Celebrity Apprentice: Remember back in October when Cyndi Lauper, Sharon Osbourne, and Bret Michaels were spotted working at Burger Heaven locations all over Midtown for an episode of Celebrity Apprentice? Well, according to Grub Street, the episodes are finally airing on Sunday night. I guess we'll finally get to see if Lunch'er Scott really tipped Cindy Lauper $300.
Posted at 8:30 am, March 11th, 2010 | 0 Comments
So Kyochon finally opened their doors for dinner last night, and they will be open again tonight… but they still aren’t open for lunch and don’t expect to be until Friday (their supposedly official “Grand Opening Day”.) Of course the way things have been going this week, they could surprise everybody by opening tomorrow for lunch or it might be 3 weeks from now! Either way, they said you might want to call first on Friday just to be safe. But the fact that they’re open for dinner is a good sign. In related news, Eater just reported that Bon Chon will be opening another Midtown location on the very same block, in the old Caprese Cafe space. (I guess they’re not content having a location just a few blocks away.) Could this get any crazier?!?
Apparently it’s a burger truck kind of day on Midtown Lunch. Zach still hasn’t been able to track down a decent plate of street meat in L.A., but today he wrote about two burger trucks that look way better than La Cense and Carnegie John’s. And we’re not just saying that because one of the burgers was topped with sausage gravy, bacon and maple syrup!? (Ok, maybe that’s exactly why we’re saying it.) I wonder if we can get Schnitzel and Things to top their deep fried burger with bacon and maple syrup? I think that would make things right…
Posted by Mamacita at 3:30 pm, March 10th, 2010 under Los Angeles.
Photo courtesy of Ambitious Delish
Unsurprisingly, the Frites N Meats Truck’s first day in Midtown (on 52nd btw. 6+7th) has been an eventful one! According to Lunch’er MattZ, the line was 30 people long by 12:30 and they stopped taking orders at 1:30pm. But the real kick in the balls came at the end of service… according to Esther from Ambitious Delicious the cops hassled the truck for parking in a metered spot and forced them to leave. Thankfully they let them serve out the rest of the customers who had already ordered, but other sources say the cop told the truck if they parked on that street again they’d be towed.
Between that and the mixed reviews in the comments we’re not sure what this will mean for future visits to Midtown (after all the La Cense burger truck started off strong before petering out and disappearing.)
Forgetting about the comparisons with the Carnegie John’s burger for now, Lunch’er Adam Prato seemed to like it. His report is after the jump…
Posted by The ML Team at 2:20 pm, March 10th, 2010 under Frites N Meats, Street Vendor Issues.
