Midtown Lunch

There’s a program this summer called Water St. Pops which involves a bunch of entertainment options, as well as cooking demonstrations and, what we all care about, free food.

On Friday you can get free Ben & Jerry’s frozen yogurt from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 1 New York Plaza (South & Whitehall streets). They’re also doing a sampling at 200 Water St. from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday. Other events include lunch markets with Stone St. Tavern and Route 66 Smokehouse from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. today at the Elevated Acre at 55 Water St. and again on Thursday at the same time and place.

In case you missed this bit of news last week, and happen to work in Soho, there’s a Delta pop up called T4X on W. Broadway (btw. Broome & Spring) and you can score a free burger from Shake Shack by stopping by. The burger purveyor is opening a shop at Terminal 4 of JFK, but the certificates you can get from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. are good at any of the Shack’s locations. The freebies are available through Wednesday, or while supplies last.

This is a new one: A truck associated with the Canyon Ranch Resort is coming downtown on Thursday and Friday to serve us free food. The health resort and spa will have a truck at Wall and Water streets from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. on Thursday, and at 200 West St. from 7 to 8:30 a.m. and Wall & Water from 9 to 10 a.m. Friday.

You will not get a giant breakfast of bacon and eggs, but instead smoothies and fruit & nut bars. I know you all are not ones to turn down free food, even if it’s good for you. They’re also giving away a stay at their resort if you want to try for even more freebies.

In honor of some made up promotional thing called “Love Your Lunch Day” you can get some free stuff at the Bistro Truck tomorrow when they’ll be at Old Slip & Water. They’ve partnered with the Aladdin company which makes things like lunch boxes and thermoses, and you can get one of their reusable to-go food containers when you go get your lamb burger from the truck. You do have to buy food from the truck “during mid-day hours” to do the freeloading.