Midtown Lunch

It’s time for the 2013 Midtown Lunch Readers’ Poll. Your nominations are in, and between now and the end of the year we’ll be asking all of you to vote for the best Midtown Lunches in a whole range of categories. You can only vote once per category (so choose wisely), and official results will be posted after the new year.

And the food trucks keep on coming. It’s getting harder and harder to keep track of all the new trucks that appear in Midtown each year. Before the police broke it up, you could just head over to Vanderbilt and 47th Street. Now they’re a little more scattered around Midtown. A few of the new ones really stepped up their game serving delicious Asian fusion, Polish kielbasa, Neapolitan pizza that got better with time, killer Italian sandwiches, and Jewish deli meat. Finally, a Jewish deli meat truck! Here are the nominees for the best new food truck in 2013:

• DiSO’s Italian Sandwich Society
• Katz n Dogz
• Moo Shu Grill
• Neapolitan Express
• Old Traditional Polish Cuisine
• Sweet Chili

Vote for your favorite, after the jump…

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It’s time for the 2013 Midtown Lunch Readers’ Poll. Your nominations are in, and between now and the end of the year we’ll be asking all of you to vote for the best Midtown Lunches in a whole range of categories. You can only vote once per category (so choose wisely), and official results will be posted after the new year.

2012 was a banner year for ramen in Midtown, and yet somehow 2013 may have gotten even better- for those willing to go a bit out of bounds, that is. The Midtown branch of Ippudo finally opened on 51st btw. 8+9th, and if that wasn’t enough Ivan Ramen opened last month in the new Gotham Market, further testing how far Midtown Lunchers were willing to travel for great ramen. It also has cemented Midtown once and for all as the ramen capital of New York City. How good is Midtown’s ramen scene? Mainstays Sapporo and Men Kui Tei aren’t even in the conversation anymore. Here are the nominees for the best ramen in Midtown:

• Hide Chan
• Ippudo
• Ivan Ramen
• Menchanko Tei
• Tabata Noodle Restaurant
• Totto Ramen

Vote for your favorite after the jump…

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Every Friday we go 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.

After my posts about Pongsri and Regional Thai, FL’er Stevenp said it was worth the trek to 8th Avenue for M Thai. He even offered recommendations on specific dishes, so how could I not try it? Luckily, they deliver, so you don’t necessarily have to walk there.

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Some of my favorite sandwiches take different dishes and put them between two slices of bread in a way that improves on the original. The Spaniard at Amish Market is one example of this – putting Spanish charcuterie in sandwich form. A better example is the Thanksgiving leftover sandwich (I’ve never had a bad one). So when I was at Pizza by Cer Te last month to pick up their Thanksgiving slice, I was intrigued by their chicken saltimbocca sandwich, a riff on the Italian classic. This week, I finally got a chance to try it.

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Last week we put out a call out for new lunchers. Here’s a report from one of our potential new contributors, Jarret…

Kobeyaki (on 40th & 6th) has quickly become one of my all time favorite Midtown lunch establishments. While I often end up spending a little more than the ML limit ($13), I am never left disappointed. I like to mix it up between one of their burgers or buns, but I always order a side of the sweet potato tempura fries. What really makes Kobeyaki stand out, however, is their selection of sauces. They offer teriyaki ketchup, wasabi mayo, spicy mayo and plenty of sriracha. If you thought it couldn’t get any better, it can – not only do they offer all of these sauces, but they put them out in dispensers for sauce-loving lunchers like myself to overindulge in. As you can see, they offer plenty of containers for patrons to fill up with the sauce(s) of their choice. A few times, I have found a particular sauce empty, and upon notifying an employee, the sauce is refilled within minutes – impressive.

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Earlier this week we put a call out for new lunchers. Here’s another report from one of our potential new contributors, Kaitlin…

Some days I like to trick myself into thinking I’m eating healthy which generally means trying to stuff as many vegetables into a meal as possible. My closest lunch option on these days is Soom Soom (46th btwn 5th and 6th) where you can get “unlimited” salad bar options. Walking in, I noticed Soom Soom had made some changes since the last time I was there.

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It’s that time of year again, when we reflect on the past 365 days of stuffing our face for under $10 and vote on who we think rules the Midtown Lunch’ing scene.  Got a favorite you don’t want left out of the mix?  Think your favorite lunch spot deserves to stand above the rest?  Nominate them in the comments below.  And in the next few weeks we’ll vote on our favorite ramen, burgers, pizza, coffee, sandwiches, Korean food, street food and more.

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The Best Lunches of 2012 As Voted On By You