New York Street Food

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We first tried Marky Ramone’s Cruisin’ Kitchen two weeks ago, when we had the classic Italian meatballs with Marky’s own marinara sauce.

The Asian meatballs looked really good too, so it was easy to choose what to order for our 2nd look.

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We first spotted NYC Healthy Bites on 14th St near Union Square one weekend, but didn’t have a chance to try them until Choice Streets.  At Choice Streets, we only had a sample taste of their food, but last week we had a chance to visit them for lunch.

For a while, they were uptown by Columbia University for lunch, but have recently been coming downtown to West 4th St by NYU.

All the hot dogs and sausages are organic.  The hot dogs are made by Applegate Farms and the sausages are made by Al Fresco.  They had a special of any 2 style hot dogs for $7.75, so I ordered a Diablo Dog and a Sweet Dog.

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We first saw the Rouge Tomate cart at last year’s Taste of the Parks event, where the NYC Parks Dept were showing off some of the new vendors in various NYC parks.  The Rouge Tomate cart served a chilled white gazpacho soup made with cucumbers, grapes, almonds and whole yogurt pureed into a small, delicious taste of 3 or 4 bites.

Rouge Tomate is a restaurant at 10 East 60th St, but their cart is on 5th Ave at 64th St, right outside the Central Park Arsenal and one of the Central Park Zoo entrances.

We heard the cart opened last week, and the menu was totally revamped.  Instead of grilled cheese, BLT’s and other sandwiches, they switched to burgers, and one in particular caught our eye – the Moroccan chicken burger for $8.

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I’m not usually a big fan of turkey burgers, but I’ve already tried most of the items on the Go Burger menu, and sometimes you just have to take one for the team.  Turkey burgers that I’ve had in the past were generally on the bland side and often fairly dry.  Hopefully Go Burger’s will be better.

The turkey burger was $6, one of the cheaper items on the Go Burger menu, so I added a slice of cheddar cheese for $1 and an order of Vidalia onion rings for $5.

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One of the newer trucks on the scene is Our Heros.  We trucked down to the Financial District to try them when they first arrived, but it’s tough for us to get down there for lunch.

That’s why it was great news when Our Heros told us they would be coming up to midtown for lunch a couple of days a week.  We caught up with them on 51st St just west of Park Ave, and were immediately confronted with a dilemma – what to order for lunch.

Since we got a cold roast beef hero last time, we wanted to try a hot hero this time.  An eggplant parmigiana hero for $8 sounded just about right.

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