New York Street Food

If you’ve ever been to some of the holiday markets around town (or read our reviews of them), you may remember Mmm…Enfes. They serve Turkish food including boreks, golzeme and desserts like baklava.

Until we walked past it yesterday, we did not realize they opened a small storefront on 39th St just east of 6th Ave.  There were only about 4 stools and a small counter to eat at, which qualifies them for Honorary Street Food status.

We got a sigara for $2 and a gul (beef) borek for $5.50. While we were waiting for the food to get warmed up, they handed us (and several other people waiting) a sweet called Turkish Delight on the house. It’s always fun to eat dessert first!

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Pera Turkish Tacos made some news last summer when they were at the old Tavern on the Green space on West 67th St with a few other food trucks.  Pera was the first food truck in NYC to be granted a liquor license!

Unfortunately, that space was closed for food trucks at the end of last summer, although there’s a beautiful new Central Park Visitors Center in the location.  While the Pera restaurant still exists near Grand Central, the truck kind of fell off the map.

That’s why we were excited to see the Pera Turkish Tacos truck reappear when the LIC Food Truck Lot opened last week.  The only question was if the menu or quality had changed.

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When I went to the Bryant Park Holiday Market right after it opened, I didn’t see Mmm…Enfes until after I already had lunch that day – but it sure looked like it was worth going back for another day.  Today was that day.

Mmm…Enfes has a selection of Turkish foods including several types of boreks and golzeme, plus baklava and one or two other desserts.

For Today’s Lunch, I went for a cheese rose borek with parsley ($6.50) and a beef & onion golzeme ($6).  I wanted to try more than one thing, but wasn’t sure if one item would be enough for lunch (spoiler alert, it was).

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The Pera Turkish Tacos truck at Tavern on the Green is the 1st food truck in NYC to be given a liquor license by the NYS Liquor Authority.   By next week, Pera’s Turkish Tacos will offer beer, wine and cocktails (vodka, rum, gin, tequila and whiskey based, including frozen options) during regular operating hours.

But don’t think about taking your drinks into Central Park.  Consumption will be limited to the truck’s assigned seating area in the Tavern on the Green Food Truck Terrace, which is located just south of the intersection of W. 67th Street and Park Drive in Central Park. (more…)

Guerrilla Ice Cream tweeted this YouTube video around earlier today showing a Turkish ice cream vendor having fun with a Japanese tourist.  Their comment was  “I think we could learn a few things about the theater of serving ice cream from this guy…”

Our 1st thought was “How the hell does the ice cream stay on the cone?”

Then our 2nd thought was “New Yorkers would never stand for this sort of nonsense.”  But then again – New York tourists would.