Midtown Lunch

As more and more “new school” trucks started hitting the streets over the past few years there was a lot of talk about Old School vs. New School vendor clashes. Well, more recently is seems like we’ve been hearing about a lot more fights between Old-New-School trucks and New-New-School trucks. The latest battle took place on Monday between two well known Midtown trucks, over a shared Downtown spot… and yesterday Frites N Meats (one of the trucks involved) took to their blog to vent about it:

We, at Frites’N’Meats, are pretty much live and let live people. We have no interest in interfering with others, disrespecting others or foisting our beliefs or ways of doing things on others. We believe that it’s not cool to go to a spot that a person has occupied every day for years and essentially force them out for your benefit, but we do not think that just because you occupy a certain spot one day a week that you somehow “own” that spot the other days that you’re not there…I know that sounds a little confusing, so let me provide an example without using names.

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Last week we broke the news that Nanoosh would be opening a new branch of its hummus bar on Madison btw. 33+34th.  This week, Feast NY is reporting that it will open on May 12th (a week from today.)  According to them, the menu will be exactly the same as the other locations.   Take a look at the menu, plus a bunch of PR food porn photos (if that’s your thing) on the Feast NY website>>

So, if Japanese curry isn’t your thing and a Cinco de Mayo pizza sounds too weird there are still plenty of straight up Mexican options in Midtown to partake in today.  Eating Mexican food on Cinco de Mayo is kind of cliched, but we’re not above using it as an excuse to chow down at one of our favorite taco spots for lunch.  Here’s a list of our favorites…

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In all my years of midtown lunching I can probably count the times that I’ve had lunch at Rock Center’s Cucina & Co on one hand. I’ve gone to their sit down restaurant a couple of times for business lunches and I’ve had lunch time take out once or twice, but frankly in my experience they sell pretty generic and pricey sandwiches and salads. That said, I have been intrigued by their early “Chef’s Table” lunch special that they offer every day from 11:30 until 12:30.

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Lunch’er Harry sent along this email and photo the other day… “Today I walked by the old Free Foods spot [on 52nd btw. Lex+3rd] in the same shopping center as Chipotle and Pump.  They have the windows mostly covered with something that says “Coming Soon www.edibowl.us“.  The website doesn’t say much, but I’m sure you’ll find it interesting.” Why yes.  Yes we do. Self proclaimed “Global Comfort Food in a Modern Environment” is just boring neo-food-chain speak, but one of the posts on their twitter account is kind of interesting: “EDIBOWL is a quick food chain delivers “Global” comfort food to neighbor. Simply say “momofuku” meets “chipotle”!” Hmmm… I wonder if they realize that Momofuku meats Chipotle has already been done.  It was called Ssam Bar (when it first opened), and it wasn’t long before they scrapped the Korean burritos in favor of the 3 star restaurant it is today.  Still, we are intrigued…  website says they’ll be open in June.

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