Midtown Lunch

If you like to eat, chances are you like to drink (read: a lot of you are freakin’ lushes), so I thought maybe it was time to introduce a happy hour column to the site. Every week, our Happy Hour Correspondent “Mamacita” will post about a different bar in Midtown that fits the Midtown Lunch mentality: unhealthy food, not lame (unless it’s lame in a cool way), and most importantly… cheap.

My quest to find the best burger and beer deal started the when I finally tried Blarney Stone’s mighty burger and fries with cheap draft beer. How I waited so long to try something ML had been writing about for over a year, I don’t know. However, it sparked a fever and the only prescription for it was more burger and beer! I tried Coppersmith’s but they turned out to be a dud. So the search continued with little hope. Then I saw Muldoons sign advertising a burger and Bud for $10. I usually never drink Budweiser, but with food I suppose it couldn’t be worse then a tall glass of water, right?

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Oh the Blarney Stone, my divey Midtown sanctuary. I find solace in your burgers, and sliders, and corned beef, and Guinness, but what about the practicing Catholics among us? Surely they want to celebrate the end of the workweek regardless of Lenten responsibilities. Enter the Blarney’s Fried Fish Sandwich…

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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.

In a time when trendy Curry Hill restaurants are popping up with their $9.99 lunch buffets, Haandi is still kickin it as the cabbie’s choice. I’ve been to this place for dinner a while back and it was packed with cab drivers scarfing down their curries and kababs. I had the two meats and veggie over rice platter ($7.99). I came out stuffed and had my first sighting of the legendary Madison Square Park He-Man around the block. It looked like he was making out with an old handicapped lady in a wheelchair, but maybe it was a hallucination caused by the spicy curry. Anyway, two items to taste isn’t enough for me. I like to taste it all. So onto their $9.99 All-You-Can-Eat lunch buffet.

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On Wednesday we reported that Comfort Diner had closed, and was moving to 44th btw. Lex+3rd, but according to Crain’s there’s no space on that block for them to move into.  A commenter claimed it was going to take the place of an already existing cafe on the south side of the block, but the only thing that really fits the bill is Benvenuto Grill. There is a Chipotle next door that is a similar size to Benvenuto (and which could accommodate a whole diner) but that place always looks more busy than Benvenuto ever does. I guess we’ll see what happens!

Related:
Comfort Diner Loses Their Lease After 14 Years

• Trini paki boys cart is serving shrimp curry!?! [Midtown Eating]
• The ML Happy Hour for March is already being planned [Midtown Connections]
• A generic deli on 47th btw. 6+7th has closed [Midtown Eating]
• The futile search for a shamrock shake begins again [Midtown Eating]

It’s pork shumai day at the NYC Cravings Truck

You gotta love it.  No wet slushy snow’ish weather is going to keep us from eating street food… Lunch’er “Masto” even braved frostbite for his Taiwanese fried chicken.  Did you go out for lunch today?  If yes, give yourself a big pat on the back.