Midtown Lunch

Opa, the new Greek restaurant in Center City, is starting to serve  lunch  next Monday (7/18) and is offering free lunches of their “toast”,  a traditional Greek pressed sandwich, to customers that day. It comes with Lancaster ham, manouri cheese, and honey mustard dressing, plus oregano fries on the side. Yum! I am always down for a fancy grilled cheese. I am also happy to report that practically all of the lunch menu is $10 or less. Burger fans be alerted, they are serving a feta stuffed hamburger.

Full menu after the jump

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This Saturday at the Piazza at Schmidts was the 1st Vendy Awards in Philadelphia, a “street food showcase and intense cook-off between the best sidewalks chefs in Philly.” Tickets were completely sold out and the vibe was sweaty but happy. I was privileged enough to  be one of the judges who sampled the  offerings of all 8 trucks and voted to pick the winner of the Vendy Cup.  While I admit that coverage of events after the fact can be lame and not helpful at all, the venders here all provided food you could normally expect at their trucks, so reading ahead will not only let you recap the event if you attended or let you live vicariously through the pictures if you missed out, it can also give you a preview of what you could get at any of these trucks on a given day.

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If you haven’t bought your tickets to the 1st Annual Philly Vendy Awards, what are you waiting for? Hundreds have already been sold. There will be beer, wine, and food from the top local food trucks. Each ticket allows you to vote in the People’s Choice Awards, so make your vote count.  I will be helping with the judging to pick the winner of the Vendy Cup, so don’t forget to say hi and perhaps I will chug a beer with you.

As you should know by know the 1st ever Philly Vendy Awards are happening July 9th. The Vendys is a cook off between street trucks, and ticket holders get to eat all the truck’s  food and drink all the beer you can manage.  Sales go to benefit The Food Trust.

Tickets are still available online. Plus if you purchase your ticket by Friday you will be entered for a chance to win a spot as the Citizen Judge, getting to judge the competitors alongside the other judges; Mayor Nutter, Chef Jen Carroll, Meal Ticket’s Drew Lazor, Phila Weekly’s Brian McManus, Chef Michael Solomonov, and… ME.  The early bird tickets have all sold out, you better buy your ticket now! You can even get a family packages of 4 tickets for the price of 3.

Will you be there?

If you would rather have seafood over empanadas, Oyster House (1516 Sansom) is serving lobster rolls streetside for $15 today until 2:30 today, almost half off.

Luscious picture after the jump

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