Midtown Lunch

It’s time for the 2011 Midtown Lunch Readers’ Poll. Your nominations are in, and between now and the end of the year we’ll be asking all of you to vote for the best Midtown Lunches in a whole range of categories. You can only vote once per category (so choose wisely), and official results will be posted after the new year.

It only took 3 years, but pizza finally returned to Rock Center this year while $1 pizza continued its march across the city.  And we still don’t have a consensus best slice in Midtown.  If only Pizza Suprema was a few blocks farther north, maybe it would quality… alas, it isn’t.  So here are your nominees for best pizza in Midtown:

• Bella Napoli
• Eddie’s Pizza Truck
• Harry’s Pizza
• J & V Pizzeria
• Lazzara’s
• Little Italy Pizza
• Pizza by Cer Te
• Previti Pizza

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It’s time for the 2011 Midtown Lunch Readers’ Poll. Your nominations are in, and between now and the end of the year we’ll be asking all of you to vote for the best Midtown Lunches in a whole range of categories. You can only vote once per category (so choose wisely), and official results will be posted after the new year.

2011 saw a few new falafel spots open up in Midtown, but are any of them worthy enough to challenge Taim Mobile- the reigning lunch champ.  The food crackdown has meant fewer visits to Midtown for the super popular truck, so maybe that opens things up for one of the old favorites to sneak in.  Here are the nominees for the best falafel in Midtown…

• Crisp/Crisp on Wheels
• Maoz Vegetarian
• Moshe’s Falafel
• Nanoosh
• Naya Express
• Olympic Pita
• Pitopia
• Soom Soom
• Taim Mobile

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It’s time for the 2011 Midtown Lunch Readers’ Poll. Your nominations are in, and between now and the end of the year we’ll be asking all of you to vote for the best Midtown Lunches in a whole range of categories. You can only vote once per category (so choose wisely), and official results will be posted after the new year.

Every year a select group of Midtown Lunchers convene in Bryant Park for a giant chicken and lamb over rice taste off known as Street Meat Palooza. This year Comme Ci Comme Ca shocked everybody by taking the title with their unique brand of chicken and lamb merguez over rice with white sauce and hot sauce.  Agree or disagree, here’s your chance to sound off. And with last year’s winner Kwik Meal shedding customers from a recent price hike, it could be anybody’s game this year.  Here are the nominees for best street meat in Midtown:

• Comme Ci Comme Ca
• Fahima Halal
• Kwik Meal/Kwik Gourmet
• SW Corner of 53rd and 6th (“Imposter Halal Cart”)
• “Famous Halal Guys” (SE Corner of 53rd and 6th & NW Corner of 52nd & 6th)
• Trini Paki Boys Cart
• Uncle Gussy’s
• XPL

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It’s time for the 2011 Midtown Lunch Readers’ Poll. Your nominations are in, and between now and the end of the year we’ll be asking all of you to vote for the best Midtown Lunches in a whole range of categories. You can only vote once per category (so choose wisely), and official results will be posted after the new year.

in 2010 we were all about the huge leap forward in Midtown coffee.  This year, everybody else seemed to take notice.  2011 will also be remembered as the year that Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf hit Midtown, and the last year that Rock Center was Blue Bottle-less.  Will last year’s surprise winner, Financier, be able to hold off JOE, Culture and Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf to repeat?   Here are the nominees for best coffee in Midtown:

• Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf
• Culture Espresso Bar
• FIKA
• Filicori Zecchini
• Financier Patisserie
• JOE the Art of Coffee
• Macaron Cafe
• Oren’s
• Sweetery Truck
• Zibetto Espresso Bar

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It’s time for the 2011 Midtown Lunch Readers’ Poll. Your nominations are in, and between now and the end of the year we’ll be asking all of you to vote for the best Midtown Lunches in a whole range of categories. You can only vote once per category (so choose wisely), and official results will be posted after the new year.

It’s hard to believe that two years ago Menchanko Tei and Sapporo were fighting it out for the title of best ramen in Midtown.  Now there’s Hide Chan and Totto Ramen, whose lines can sometime make them feel like baby Ippudos.  This year Tabata got thrown into the mix, to some pretty strong reviews (including a write up in the New York Times!?)  Is it strong enough to unseat last year’s winner?  Or will Totto Ramen reign supreme again.  Here are the nominees for Best Ramen in Midtown:

• Hide Chan
• Menchanko Tei
• Men Kui Tei
• Sapporo
• Tabata Noodle Restaurant
• Totto Ramen

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It’s time for the 2011 Midtown Lunch Readers’ Poll. Your nominations are in, and between now and the end of the year we’ll be asking all of you to vote for the best Midtown Lunches in a whole range of categories. You can only vote once per category (so choose wisely), and official results will be posted after the new year.

After last year’s burger mania things settled down a bit in 2011. But the debate over who makes the best burger in Midtown is still as contentious as ever. Can Five Guys repeat their victory from last year? Or has the Shake Shack backlash died down enough for them to take their place on top of the heap? Or could one of the other contenders pull off a shocking victory. Only one way to find out. Here are the nominees for the best under $10 hamburger in Midtown.

• Bill’s Bar & Burger
• Burger Joint
• BV’s Burger
• Five Guys
• Goodburger
• Schnipper’s Quality Kitchen
• Shake Shack

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Next week polls will open for the 2011 Midtown Lunch Reader’s Poll, but before we open the individual categories up for a vote we want to get your nominees. Have a favorite lunch spot you think needs to be highlighted? A best burger? Favorite cup of coffee? Maybe it’s a particular sandwich from a food truck? Let us know in the comments. Include as many or few nominees as you like, and we’ll take them all into consideration when we put together the finalists for each of the polls. And most importantly… if you don’t nominate anybody, you can’t bitch!

Related:
Best Midtown Lunches As Voted On By You: 2010 Edition