New York Street Food

Fish and chips celebrate their 150th anniversary this year.  It started as street food in the Dickensian era and continues to be a staple diet of the British working class.  It was also one of the few foods not rationed during the Second World War. There are 10,500 fish and chip shops in Britain, and the industry is worth £1.2bn...

Brenda Tan, 17 and Matt Cost, 18 of Trinity School Two students at the Trinity School on the Upper West Side spent four months collecting 217 samples of organisms in their neighborhoods in order to study DNA barcoding.  They were trying to identify the various species they were surrounded by in their daily lives. Most of the conclusions were expected, until...

Big news on the NYC food blog front.  As some of you may have heard, Zach Brooks, founder of the groundbreaking Midtown Lunch website, announced today that he's moving to LA at the end of this month due to his wife receiving a great job offer. While we will miss his physical presence at the various food trucks, carts...

After my earlier post today about banh mi starting to get popular in London, I had to go back to Num Pang for Today's Lunch, even though I had it not once, but twice last week.  This is turning into a serious addiction (which I have no desire to cure). I hadn't tried their coconut shrimp sandwich yet, so that...

Looks like banh mi, one of NYSF's favorite street foods, is catching on in London.  According to Tim Walker in The Independent, "Like a lot of street trends, this one has been appropriated from the developing world, popularised by urbane New Yorkers, and is now finally reaching our shores." I've never been called an "urbane New Yorker" before, but I've...

How do you determine where food carts should be located?  By rating them, of course. In Madison WI, one of the top college towns in the US, there are around 30 food carts that park on the Library Mall and Capitol Concourse in the warm weather.  When they return to the streets next spring, not all will be in the...

As originally reported by Serious Eats, new this year for NYC Restaurant Week, (which runs from January 25th through February 7th) is the NYC Restaurant Week Truck, which will roam Manhattan during lunch hours selling different soups from many of the participating restaurants.  You can follow their tweets on NYCGO here.  Hopefully it won't be too cold, because you...

A new food truck is coming to Washington DC this month that embraces different cultures through food, music, art, events and people.  As a fully functioning restaurant on wheels, Sâuçá aims to bring global, healthy food to the residents of our nation's capital. The specialty on the menu is the Sâuçá—a twist on the pita/wrap/food-on-bread concept inspired by true street...

For Today's Lunch, I braved the sub-freezing weather and walked about 10 blocks each way to the Bulgogi Cart on W. 49th St bet 6th Ave & 7th Ave, but much closer to 6th Ave.  I asked the vendor what he recommended, and he suggested the beef ribs and spicy chicken combo for $8.  Since it was a bit...

Usmania, a restaurant serving authentic Pakistani street food recently opened in Plantation, FL, in an area known primarily for its retirement villages.  My grandparents used to live nearby in Sunrise years ago, and my in-laws are only about 20 minutes away. The thought of my mother-in-law eating haleem is quite amusing.  According to the restaurant reviewer John Linn, haleem "combines...