Midtown Lunch

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• If you are ever in Castor Gardens, Casa Brasil has all you can eat meat for only $9.99 [Philly.com]
• Sign up with Grubstreet for a chance to win a free sandwich every day for a year [Grubstreet]
• …to go along with their awesome slideshow of their favorite Philly sandwiches. How many have you tried? [Grubstreet]
• How much do you know about ramen? I only got a 50%, how embarrassing! [SeriousEats]

I can’t get enough meat sandwiches. What can I say, I love meat and portability. The Rib Stand in Reading Terminal offers, along with baby back and spare ribs, a boneless rib sandwich. While I hate to pass on the thrill of gnawing meat off of bones, bonelessness and between bread-ness is a lot more lunch friendly.

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I have passed by Hong Bo Buffet countless times, always noting it as a place I should probably try, but never going in because I was always on my way to eat somewhere else. Not for the faint of heart, Hong Bo is a Chinese steam table. The kind where you point to the food items you want and they get piled on a big styrofoam plate for you. $6 lets you point 4 times.

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As is customary at Philly Lunch, every Tuesday we turn over the site to a different lunch’er for his or her recommendations for the best lunch in Philadelphia. This week it’s Alexandra, a sushi lover who works in marketing and hates injera ( I have to agree, it is a bit off-putting).

Name: Alexandra

Age: 22

Occupation: Marketer/Designer

Where in Philly do you Work?: Next to the Electric Factory! (7th and Willow)

Favorite Kind of Food:Sushi. Always and forever sushi.

Least Favorite Kind of Food: That spongy bread used in Ethiopian cuisine. I think it tastes funny and something about it just plain weirds me out. Also, eel in sushi. No thank you.

Favorite Place(s) to Eat Lunch in Philly: Korean is a great anytime cuisine, but especially for lunch. I like Koreana (38th and Chestnut) and usually get the bi bim bop, but I’ve recently discovered kimbap to be just as delicious. I also like Miran (20th and Chestnut) because they give you those little dishes of appetizers. For sushi, I like Aki (12th and Walnut). I also love the pizza at Rustica (2nd and Poplar). They always let me have the corner slice of sicilian when I ask, and they have Jones sodas.

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