New York Street Food

Regular readers of NYSF (and many other people too) know that one of the best lunch deals in midtown is 2 kati rolls for $6 from Biryani Cart on 46th St just west of 6th Ave.

They have 6 different kati rolls to choose from – 4 chicken and 2 vegetarian options – with varying degrees of heat, from mild to spicy habanero (which will set your tongue on fire).

My favorite kati roll is the Chennai roll, which has chicken in a sweet and spicy chili sauce, but I wanted to try some of the other choices.  Today’s Lunch is a King Koti roll and a P.W.C.D. roll from Biryani Cart for $6.

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I’ve been telling you about all the new menu items from Biryani Cart/Juicy Wings – such as hot wings and cheese steaks – which they are serving at their new, 3rd cart across 46th St (by 6th Ave) from their 2 original carts that serve Indian food.  Meru has expanded again, and the 2008 & 2009 People’s Choice Vendy Award Winner was in the new cart today doing the cooking himself to make sure everything was up to snuff.

Today’s Lunch is peppercorn cheese steak ($4) from Biryani Cart.  I was curious about the wings, but they were already sold out when I got there, so the choice was fairly easy.

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Last time I went to Biryani Cart in mid-December, there was a new cart next to it with a Biryani Cart/Juicy Wings sign that had an interesting assortment of wings with 4 types of sauces, as well as cheese steak, peppercorn cheese steak and deep fried shish kebab (?!).  The owner, Meru, told me they were going to be serving these items after the new year.

Well, I went back today to check out the wings…and they were a no go – but Meru promised they would be serving the Juicy Wings menu starting next week.  I hope so, because these certainly look like tasty sauces for wings.

As I mentioned in the mid-December post, Biryani Cart did have a few other new dishes, so I got to try another one for Today’s Lunch – boneless fish curry for $7.

I like to get fish for lunch whenever possible because I’m the only one in my house who likes fish, and I only get it eating out.  A boneless fish curry from Biryani Cart – the 2008 & 2009 People’s Choice Vendy Award Winner – should be worthwhile.  Click through to see more on Today’s Lunch.

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new Biryani Cart menu items

I haven’t been to Biryani Cart since the summer and was in the mood for Indian food, so I headed to the SW corner of 6th Ave & 46th St.  I have been to Biryani Cart many times, but it’s been a while, and today it was almost like going to a whole new place for lunch!

The Sandwich Land cart owned by Meru (Biryani Cart’s owner) was not there any more, and in it’s place right next to the original Biryani Cart was a cart called Juicy Wings.  They aren’t serving wings until Jan 2nd (more on that below), so I moved over to the original Biryani Cart right next to it – and they had a bunch of new menu items too!

Meru has been a busy man.  I guess you don’t win the People’s Choice Vendy Award 2 years in a row (2008 & 2009) by staying static.

new Juicy wings cart sign

Today’s Lunch is one of Biryani Cart’s new menu items, Kashmiri Chicken Curry ($6).  Other new menu items were channa dal, goat biryani and fish curry.  Don’t worry, they still have the same wonderful kati rolls and of course, biryani dishes.

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This should be the last of the” Best of Today’s Lunch” posts for this trip.  Although I will be in London through the middle of next week, I expect to be checking out some London street food over the weekend and early next week.

There’s a small Lebanese place nearby (in Kensington) that appears to have good shawarma and falafel, and  I hope to check out the Brick Lane Sunday Market which has Tibetan momos, Jamaican meat patties and banh mi.  Think I’ll skip the jellied eels though!

Today’s Lunch is the kati roll combo from the award-winning Biryani Cart at the SW corner of 6th Ave and West 46th Street.  Biryani Cart was the People’s Choice Vendy Award Winner for 2009 and 2008.  You can’t win the People’s Choice award two years running without something great, so here I go.

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