Midtown Lunch: Downtown NYC - Food Adventures for Your Urban Lunch Hour

Free Cupcakes At Sweetery This Morning: If you work near Hudson & King and need breakfast (or second breakfast), then get yourself over to the Sweetery truck between 8:30 and 10:30 a.m. They've partnered with the Food Network Magazine and they'll be heading to Midtown after mid-morning, so act fast!

Posted at 8:00 am, May 2nd, 2012 | 0 Comments

Basically Every Truck Is Downtown: There's a lot happening on the ML Downtown Twitter Tracker including Urban Lobster at Greenwich & Franklin, Bo & Jo at Water & Coenties, Fun Buns in its spot at Water & Maiden, Rickshaw at Hudson & Houston and the WFC, Gorilla Cheese at Hudson & King, Domo Taco's at Hudson & Houston, Taim Mobile's on Varick & King, Korilla's at Varick & Vandam, Big D's is at Hanover Sq., Wafels & Dinges has a truck at B'way & Canal and Milk Truck's at Wall & William. The rest of the WFC lineup is Cupcake Crew, Bongo Brothers, Frites N Meats and Eddie's Pizza. Also of note: 5% of sales from the WFC trucks are going to City Meals.

Posted at 11:28 am, May 1st, 2012 | 0 Comments

PROFILE: Downtown Lunch’er “Yury”

As is customary here on Midtown Lunch, every Tuesday we’ll profile a different lunch’er and get their recommendations for places to eat in Downtown NYC. This week, we have Yury who is looking for the perfect Indian burrito (my terminology, not his).

Name: Yury

Occupation: Fraud investigator

Where you work: Broadway & Cedar

Age: 24

Favorite kinds of food: I generally love food and love trying new things, but the three things that I can never go wrong with are burgers, sushi and kati rolls.

Least favorite foods: I can’t stand olives, but other than that I will eat almost anything (within reason).

Favorite lunches downtown: There are a bunch of places downtown that I tend to rotate among. These include: Pita Press on Cedar (btw. William & Pearl) for chicken and lamb platters; Water St. Deli on Water (btw. Broad & Moore) for great udon noodles and a fantastic specialty sandwich selection; Flavors (Multiple Locations) has a nice salad bar; Zeytuna on Maiden Lane (btw. Nassau & William) for their large selection of pretty much everything you can imagine, and it’s also a great place during the summer since they have outdoor seating; Suspenders on Broadway (btw. Pine & Thames), Goodburger on Maiden Lane (at Pearl) and Five Guys on Fulton (at Dutch) all have good burgers. Also, the other day I discovered that there is a Shake Shack over on Murray St. by the World Financial Center, so they will definitely be seeing a lot of me in the coming weeks!

Posted by Andrea H at 10:00 am, May 1st, 2012 under PROFILE: Downtown Lunch'er.

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Two Years In, Baoguette’s Catfish Banh Mi Is Still My Go-To Lunch

This week marks two years since I’ve started writing for you fine people on Midtown Lunch: Downtown and I thought it might be fun to tell you about some non-review lunches that I’ve eaten on a regular basis since I started working in the Financial District but haven’t ever written about. I’m saving my most shameful guilty pleasure lunch for the end of the week, but today you get the lunch that I’ve probably eaten the most when I’m crunched for time or can’t think of anything else imaginative to stuff in my face. That would be the catfish banh mi from Baoguette, extra spicy.

Posted by Andrea H at 12:00 pm, April 30th, 2012 under Baoguette, Financial District, Sandwiches, Seafood.

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Cinnamon Snail’s Back Downtown: Tribeca Taco is taking the day off, according to the ML Downtown Twitter Tracker, but what we do have are Schnitzel & Things, Crisp and Sweetery at Hudson & King, Valducci's at Church & Walker and Gorilla Cheese, Kimchi Tacos, Mexicue, Red Hook Lobster and Taim at the WFC lot. Also, Cinnamon Snail's at Wall & Water, Comme Ci Comme Ca's at Old Slip & Water, Fun Buns cart's at Water & Maiden and Calexico's out at Prince & Wooster with homemade chorizo.

Posted at 11:19 am, April 30th, 2012 | 0 Comments

Cafe 41 Rolls Out $1 Slices

Cafe 41 opened in the old Patuca space on John St. (nr. Nassau) and offers most of the same generic deli fare that every other place in the Financial District does. They’re now trying to win our hearts with $1 plain slices, unless you’d rather go for a wrap or some pasta.