Midtown Lunch

Besides serving Bassetts ice cream and giant cake slices, More than Just Ice Cream has a full lunch and dinner menu. The ice cream is served when you walk in, and dining seating is to your left by the open kitchen, including some cozy pillowed bench arrangements.

The lunch menu has a selection of salads and sandwiches, and they sure love grilling things here: grilled, cheese, grilled tuna, grilled steak, grilled chicken, grilled portobello, grilled tofu… Another thing to note is that a lot of the sandwich options are standard, but with some weird random twist, this will be explained after the jump.

As for combo deals, there are 2 levels of lunch specials. You can get a grilled cheese or blt with a side for around $8. But I went for the first class combo, a choice from a wider sandwich selection with a side and a drink for $10.

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It seems like Thanksgiving is everywhere these days and thoughts of stuffing have been haunting my dreams. I needed to get my fix. I recently had  my first Wawa “Gobbler” experience, which if you don’t know, is a sandwich only offered during the fall season and includes the works- turkey, stuffing, cranberry. It is a passable Thanksgiving craving satisfier, especially as a late night option. But you might have to look elsewhere if you want your turkey hand carved.  I have often passed by The Original Turkey in Reading Terminal, but it wasn’t until I noticed they serve up a Thanksgiving sandwich, called the Stuffin’ Cranberry, that my notice turned into desire.

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My mission to Govindas’s Vegetarian To- Go may have been motivated by a carnivore’s smugness, an assumption that fake meat is categorically lame. My expectations were low, to say the least. I didn’t care how many hippies penned odes of love for Govinda.

But when I walked in (to the informal take out area, as opposed to the dining room which has a separate menu), I didn’t hate it. There were no wheatgrass lined windows, no ironic posters, not even a menu written on a chalkboard with cutsey handwriting and drawings.  I didn’t feel like the people behind the counter would detect last night’s pork on me and scorn me for it. It was just about getting the food; I appreciated that.

At the stark counter, with no judgments passed on either side, I ordered my fake meat.

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November 3rd is National Sandwich Day… something about the birthday of the Earl of Sandwich. So, I want to know- what are your favorite local sandwiches?

Here are some of mine in no particular order after the jump…

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Starting today, something amazing is happening at Jake’s Sandwich Board. Now on Mondays, you can get one of Jake’s Whole Roasted Pork Sandwiches for $5 dollars. I don’t even have to tell you that this is the same price as a sandwich from Subway.

If you need a refresher of  my report from last May, after the jump is a pic of what your $5 pork sandwich could look like…  Also, I try the Philly Wasabi for the first time.

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I never thought much of Georgio on Pine when I passed by, it just looked generic, but after reading a glowing review from South Philly Review, I looked at the menu. I noticed they did in fact offer  lunch as well as a gluten friendly menu. I knew I had to bring my recently diagnosed gluten intolerant friend. I liked that I could still get my gluten filled lunch, while she could finally get some decent pasta.

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Today, Nick from My Inner Fatty is hitting up the food trucks again, this time for some good old American sandwiches.

I’m gonna go right ahead on a limb and say that I’m definitely not the only one who constantly has a craving for breakfast foods. I mean, breakfast shouldn’t have to end at 10:30 AM just because McDonald’s says so. No, that’s not fair to those of us who wake up at arbitrary times because of work or class. Freedom to have breakfast whenever is just plain American, and depriving me of my eggs, breakfast sausage, and bacon because it’s 1 PM is just plain wrong. Luckily, you never have to make that choice in University City… because Bui’s Lunch Truck exists.

A favorite amongst Penn students, Bui’s Lunch Truck is a relatively plain looking grey truck parked on the corner of 38th and Spruce, open early for the breakfast crowd with virtually no lines or wait time to speak of. Compared with the other’s in the area, there’s actually no visual cue that would tell you to ever go there (there’s never a line!), but for some reason, it’s been suggested to me time after time. A brief glance at their menu reveals that they’re your general breakfast/sandwich/cheesesteak truck with a fairly robust menu, supplemented by a list of ’special sandwiches,’ (all around the $5 mark), all of which are still pretty ordinary, so I’m left wondering where all this praise stems from. That is, before my eyes reach the sandwich listed as the ‘Hangover Special.’

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