Two Weeks of Free Coffee Starts Today: Seamless Web is doing their "Free Coffee" promotion again this year, and it kicks off in Midtown East today. All week long you can score free cups of coffee from a bunch of places east of 5th Ave, including Fresco on the Go, Devon & Blakely, Toasties and more. Then, next week, it will be Midtown West's turn. Get all the details and a full list of participating spots, here>>
Posted at 9:30 am, February 1st, 2011 | 1 Comment
For those of you just north of Grand Central hoping for some Mexican deliciousness from El Rey del Sabor during the middle of this week, you’ll have to wait until at least Friday. The cart they normally have parked on 49th Street and Park will be off the streets from today until at least Thursday for its inspection. Though if you really need your fix there’s always the ERdS carts on 43rd & 6th or the original on 60th & 3rd.
Free Cupcake Alert: If you're a fan of the Sweetery NYC truck, you'll want to check out Tenka this week for a free cupcake. It's free to have the coupon sent to your phone, but only the first hundred people who take it to the truck score the freebie. Sweetery spent the day downtown, but they should be on 9th Ave. and 59th Street from 4pm to 7:30pm tonight.
Posted at 3:45 pm, January 31st, 2011 | 0 Comments
As I type this the finishing touches are being put on Rock Center’s brand new Jacques Torres!!! I made a quick stop by at lunch today and the place is looking great. Peeking in from the window I could see an espresso bar and a few tables for eating in. And I’m pretty sure I spied Mr. Chocolate himself, doing some hands on lifting and set up. They are officially opening tomorrow and JT will be there from 10 until noon. So excited to see the Godiva space taken over by superior chocolate. Dessert win for Rock Center!
Posted by Brownie at 2:40 pm, January 31st, 2011 under *Rockefeller Center, Sweets.
Half Off Chom Chom (Again): Either these specials are working wonders for Chom Chom (on 56th btw. 5+6th) or they're grasping at straws to keep customers coming in! Either way we benefit... today's Groupon gets you $20 worth of lunch food from the "Modern Korean" restaurant for just $10.
Posted at 1:30 pm, January 31st, 2011 | 1 Comment
It’s a tried and true and idiot proof formula – offer tasty food made from quality ingredients, with sufficient portions at a fair price and the people will come. Then why do so many places in Midtown screw up the equation? I digress. On the other hand, Mooncake Foods has always scored an ‘A’ in this subject in my opinion, at their locations in Chelsea and SoHo. So I’m very excited that they’ve brought their low hanging fruit to the grateful lunchers of Midtown West.
The Twitter Tracker is Humming Today: Who cares what weather is on the way... the sun is out today! Wafels & Dinges is on 45th, Rickshaw is on 50th, Taim Mobile is on 46th, Korilla BBQ is on 55th, Uncle Gussy has afgolemono, Comme Ci Comme Ca is on 38th, Mexicue is on 55th, and Frites N Meats is on 52nd. As always, make sure to double check the ML Twitter Tracker before heading out.
Posted at 11:00 am, January 31st, 2011 | 0 Comments
Cer Te (on 55th btw. 5+6th) is at it again! After a few months off, they’re back with another special sandwich of the month. Got this message from the restaurant on Friday: “The February Sandwich will begin on Monday, January 31. “The Wangen” Braised Beef Cheeks With Marigold Apples Crispy Sea Salted Cabbage Melted Mountain Gruyere On Finnish Ruis Bread With Coleman’s Mustard $8.95. Sounds good, right??” Yes. Yes it does. And what do you know! Today is Monday, January 31st. Early adopters, let us know how it is in the comments.
Thanks to Lunch’er Patrick for the photo
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. This week Mamacita has the week off, so Blondie handled the drinking duties. (It’s a tough gig, but somebody had to do it!)
You can do many things during the happy hours in Midtown: play Big Buck Safari Hunter, shoot pool, throw darts, hang out with Miss Australia, and now you can also go (expensive) bowling at Bowlmor. Being the bowling-lover yet bowling-challenged person that I am, I’ve wanted to stop by and work on my ball throwing skills for awhile. Plus, we should applaud David Burke’s attempt at moving away from his Hawaiian Tropic Zone days. Then I saw they had happy hour specials from 3pm to 7pm and I knew I had to at least go for $4 beers.
