E & E Grill Offering Free Coffee This Morning: E&E Grill House, the new steak place on 49th btw. B'way+8th, is launching their new grab and go coffee program this morning and to celebrate they're giving away free cups of Barrington Roasters coffee to their first 1,000 customers before 10am all day long. They're not open for lunch yet, and we're doubtful their lunch menu will be in the ML price range, but we'll take some free coffee! Freeloaders engage.
Posted at 8:00 am, July 18th, 2011 | 0 Comments
Lunch from Num Pang Midtown (on 41st btw. Lex+3rd). Photo by Tina Wong
If you like to eat, chances are you like to drink (read: a lot of you are freakin’ lushes), so 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. Mamacita is taking this week off, so Clay has stepped up to the plate.
When drinking in Midtown, I tend to pay a little (and sometimes a lot) extra for luxuries like outdoor seating, a quality selection or great food. Still, when I come across a proper bargain, I get pretty excited. So when I stumbled on a sign advertising $5 glasses of wine at L’ybane, a French Mediterranean restaurant on 8th Avenue, I knew I had to investigate.
Checking in With the Treats Truck: If you're curious how the Treats Truck has been doing since being kicked out of Midtown, Fork in the Road has a really in depth interview with Kim about how difficult it is going to be for her to stay in business after losing her two most lucrative parking spots. More reason to order delivery from her on Wednesdays!
Posted at 1:45 pm, July 15th, 2011 | 0 Comments
It’s been awhile since we dropped in on Sami’s Dosa Cart, which in my opinion is one of the best still semi under the radar cart options in midtown, so I was happy to see it getting some serious love in the forums. The dosas are a natural pick, but the Masala Uthappam also makes for a great lunch. Read more »
What Food Truck Crackdown?: On the ML Twitter Tracker today... Mexicue is on 55th & Lex, Big D's Grub is on 53rd & Lex, Crisp on Wheels is on 46th & 6th, Gorilla Cheese is on 47th & Park, Luke's Lobster is on 40th near 5th, Comme Ci Comme Ca is on 36th & B'way, Bian Dang is on Vanderbilt, Kimchi Truck is on 46th & Lex, Sweetery is on 52nd & Park, Wafels is on 49th & 3rd, and it sounds like Red Hook Lobster will be in front of the Time Life Building (on 50th & 6th)?
Posted at 11:15 am, July 15th, 2011 | 0 Comments
Every Friday our man UltraClay goes south of the ML boundaries in search of a delicious lunch. Sometimes it’s Murray Hill south or the Flatiron District, sometimes Gramercy and everything in between- but we just like to call it Flatiron Lunch. This week Brian H. is stepping in for Clay…
You don’t often see the contributors on ML reviewing salads. Zach has expressed an aversion to leafy greens over the years and the rest of us also tend to like our food fried, buttery, and meaty – in other words, with lots of flavor. Another reason we don’t cover healthy food very often is because it’s so darn expensive. It’s a lot cheaper (and more fun) to rack up the calories than to design your own salad.
And the truth is I probably would not have gone out of my way to check out Quality Greens, the new salad bar concept at FoodParc, if it wasn’t for the promise of a taste of Tanoreen. The Middle Eastern restaurant in Bay Ridge is one of my favorites in the entire city and since an hour-long ride on the R train is not how I like to spend my weekends, I’ve only been there a handful of times. So when I read that Tanoreen was coming to Midtown, I could barely contain my excitement. Why do you think I hijacked this column from ultraclay this week?
Posted by brianhoffman at 9:45 am, July 15th, 2011 under Flatiron Lunch, Food Parc.
Anybody who has read this site for any length of time knows how much I love street carts and food trucks. For 5+ years Midtown Lunch has celebrated, promoted, and advocated for the great street food in New York City. But it might surprise some to discover that I don’t actually want to see food trucks (or any street food for that matter) fully legalized in Midtown. And you can read why in this op-ed I wrote for the New York Times.
1:45pm at the Hallo Berlin Cart, which returned to 54th & 5th yesterday
We’d say that’s a resounding “yes”.
Posted by brianhoffman at 2:45 pm, July 14th, 2011 under At Lunch Now, Hallo Berlin.
