Midtown Lunch

Nick’s Place is one of the literal hidden places in the Garment District. The kind that we all claim to know and flaunt to Zagat’s, perpetuating the myth of the New Yorker who “knows a place.” Zach’s previous review highlights a hole-in-the-shaft operation that vacillated between pseudo-authentic tacos, Greek food, and basic sandwiches/breakfast all in one semi-secret location. Three years can change a place, right? It behooves another look.

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There’s something about eating lunch in a building’s loading dock that is just so fun… so awesome… so… well, Midtown Lunch’ish.  The most famous two examples of this are Pick-a-Pita (which was in a loading dock, before moving to 8th Ave. btw. 39+40th) and El Sabroso, which is still serving up delicious and cheap latin food out of a counter in a loading dock on 37th btw. 7+8th.

So, when Luncher Christina told me about Nick’s Place “tucked away in a freight entrance” on 39th btw. 7+8th, I naturally had to check it out.

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