Zach Brooks, the founder and editor of Midtown Lunch, a Web site that serves those who toil in Midtown Manhattan and hope to find something decent and reasonably priced to eat on their lunch breaks, narrates a tour of 10 popular ethnic restaurants and food carts featured on his site. Related Article
You can have mussels in a skillet with chipotle, chorizo and calamari, or you can have them in a tall, hooded pot with pearls of roasted corn, diced country ham and a bourbon-inflected, mustard-spiked cream sauce.
In New York, 2009 is starting to look like the Year of the Banh Mi, with a number of new shops offering new takes on the classic street-vendor Franco-Vietnamese sandwich, as I report in this article. This map shows where to find some of the city’s notable banh mi sandwiches, both classic Vietnamese and new-style.