New York Street Food

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One of the excellent vendors who doesn’t get a lot of press these days is the Kwik Meal cart, on the SW corner of 45th St and 6th Ave.  Muhammad Rahman, owner of Kwik Meal, was a Vendy Award finalist in 2008 and the People’s Choice winner in 2007.  There are tons of articles on the cart from 2007-2009, but not much from the past few years.  Judging from the crowd at the cart, they still have a steady, loyal following.

As I often do, I went for the Daily Special, a combination of fish and shrimp biryani for $9.

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It’s been a while since I’ve been to the Kwik Meal cart on the SW corner of 45th St & 6th Ave.  Kwik Meal won the People’s Choice Award at the 2007 Vendy Awards, and is one of the better street carts around.  The owner, Muhammad Rahman, was a sous chef at the Four Seasons, and knows his stuff.

Kwik Meal is also one of the only carts that serves real lamb.  Almost every street cart that serves “lamb” is using the processed gyro meat that comes on a spit and they slice off in thin strips.  Kwik Meal serves pieces of real lamb, which obviously costs more, but is worth it in our opinion.

Today’s Lunch is lamb over rice ($9) from Kwik Meal.

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It’s been a while since I went to Kwik Meal on the SW corner of 6th Ave & 45th St.  They were a Vendy Award Finalist in 2007 and are known for the high quality of their food, which is not surprising since the owner, Muhammad Rahman, was once a sous chef at the Four Seasons.  They are one of the few street food vendors who actually uses real lamb instead of gyro meat, and their salmon and shrimp over rice was excellent too.

Always on the lookout for new things, I noticed a sign for kati rolls, which they didn’t have last time I was there.  They had a choice of chicken or vegetable, with one for $3.50 and 2 for $6.  Today’s Lunch is one chicken and one vegetable kati roll from Kwik Meal.

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Here’s a Best of Today’s Lunch from our archives – it was an excellent grilled salmon over rice from Kwik Meal.

I was in the mood for some seafood for lunch, and had heard good things about the salmon filet at the original Kwik Meal cart on the SW corner of West 46th St and 6th Ave.  Kwik Meal was a Vendy Award finalist in 2008 and the People’s Choice winner in 2007, and I previously had the lamb pita sandwich there, which was pretty good, so I was optimistic for Today’s Lunch.

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I heard the Kwik Meal cart on the SW corner of 45th St & 6th Ave had real lamb, not the fake gyro meat, so I wanted to check it out.

And the reports were correct.  When I got back to the office, Today’s Lunch was a great looking and wonderfully smelling dish of real lamb over basmati rice with a small salad on the side.  I wish this website had smell-o-vision, so you could smell it too.

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