is New York City dead?

All those office lunch factory spots are soul sucking imo

You got a better idea?

Man I’m getting so hungry thinking about dill and parsley. If it sucks my soul, it does so deliciously.

Well yes not many options in midtown

I mean these are office lunches, not dining experiences. I’m comparing them to what I can get for lunch (outside of the apt) in my Bronx neighborhood.... and could eat on a daily basis without falling asleep in the afternoon.

Yeah when I worked in midtown it was great. I wouldn’t like drive down there for it but it was good eats. Also the teriyaki cart.

Hey Andrew yang, Take it to the upstate thread or something

People who leave NY are always experts about NY

Where are you from calstars?

Remember those numbered Afghan Kebab Houses what ever happened to those

I never found Afghan Kebab House #1, the lowest number was Afghan Kebab House #2, I think it was in Woodside. I was so excited when i found that.

The #5 was like half a mile down the street from me at the time, I was kind of baffled by the name and more than curious to know the locations of Afghan Kebab Houses #1-4 and 6-
How many were there?

Loathe to admit it but Cava is really good.

First time I walked into a sweetgreen, I thought, wow they have sabzi yess this is too good to be true, and it was. I think that was also the last time I walked into a sweetgreen.

Google maps shows 3 remaining Afghan Kebab Houses in NYC, their awnings read "Afghan Kebab House #1" , "Afghan Kebab House" and "Afghan Kebab House Floral Park".

But I don't know if Afghan Kebab House #1 is the real Afghan Kebab House #1 or only got promoted to #1 after the closure of other Afghan Kebab Houses.

There’s no Afghan kebab house in Woodside. There’s one on Jackson Heights.

My favorite Manhattan lunch factory may be Hummus and Pita Co.

Also Sophie’s Cuban is a dependable chain.

my brother in law swears by "dig inn" but the name is disqualifying imo.

I love any business that uses the ‘in’ —> ‘inn’ construction

i like the double pun of the classic "dew drop inn" but the word "dig" isn't something i want adjacent to my office drone lunch bowl

It’s great but it’s rebranded. It’s now just Dig. Somebody agreed with you.

if they agreed with me it would just be "inn"

top union square lunch slop stop is rainbow falafel though it is instant heartburn agony

I was once staying in a fancy hotel in NYC on someone else's time and I got Halal Guys and ate it in my expensive hotel room and felt a frisson

Blue Afghan House No. 3

dig inn/dig is definitely adequate lunch fare, beats chipotle or five guys or whatever. feels ok to be eating a meat and couple of veggies. probably oversalted but otherwise good enough. amazing what you can accomplish in business by just taking "picadilly cafeteria" and making it all upscale and designy.

The thing is, it's office lunches/eating at your desk that's soul sucking. These bowl places try to improve the situation by bringing a bit of dignity and serving something resembling real food. They can't overcome the situation, but it's not their fault.

fair point!

would love a union square picadilly

the great innovation is the online ordering bit. sweetgreen is so much sweeter when you just walk in grab your shit and leave. truly do not understand waiting on line at these places

I agree eating at your desk makes it very difficult to really savor a meal. Also, midtown around Bryant Park is pretty good, but if you get too close to Central Park, it becomes kind of a dead zone. I thought I'd tried Cava but I realized I was confusing it with Naya, which is a similar concept.

is maoz still going?

Last I knew, there was maybe one left, over by Port Authority.

Watching Serge Gainsbourg made me have a Coconuts flashback.

is maoz still going?

No, maoz is gone. Also, it was gross.

I think the food court at the Roosevelt Feild Mall in Long Island might still have a Maoz, but i haven't been there in years.

Also there's a dig inn down the street from me and you can smell the rancid oil half a block away.

dig inn is too oily, i agree.

sweetgreen is good if you want to spend your whole paycheck on lunch. i no longer live that life though i am a suburban guy but there was a time.

I never actually tried sweetgreen, I was so disappointed to find their "sabzi" isn't actually sabzi khordan that i walked out in disgust, never to return.

I can't imagine that Maoz's concept of "build your own falafel from a salad bar" would translate well to the age of Covid.

was out in Manhattan on a Saturday night in well over a year. such a wild vibe out there atm! it's a trip

same here, it was really something

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so there is a curfew at Washington Square now and the fucking riot geared nypd just go in and start beating people after 10:00? sounds cool

Also Union Square and Tompkins Square Park.

it's fucked

police only do this when they are VERY stressed and underfunded! please don't post videos of them doing it :(

“The park has turned into a nightmare for those of us with kids,” said local resident Maria Rose. “There's constant drugs, constant nudity. There's sexual acts here all the time. The trash in the mornings has become really obscene and it's really not a place for kids anymore, let alone adults.”

Since when??? I thought all the fun stuff stopped decades ago tbh

Lol @ "really not a place for kids anymore"

The drugs, nudity, sexual acts, trash and obscenity getting to be a little to much for even the youngest of kids