We've known for awhile that we'd be losing friend, former Serious Eater, and Midtown Lunch mastermind Zach Brooks to Los Angeles, but it looks like the word is officially out: he'll be leaving New York City by the end of...
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Street food has come a long way since 2001, when Sean Basinsky founded the Street Vendor Project as a way to provide legal representation and advocacy to immigrant vendors. It's become more tech-savvy, more PR-filled, and arguably more imaginative...
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The eaters descend upon their street meat prey. Last week, Zach Brooks of Midtown Lunch organized the second annual Street Meat Palooza, inviting street meat lovers/food bloggers (including me) to rate chicken/lamb over rice dishes from 15 different carts...
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A few months ago, new daddio Zach Brooks declared that restaurants should implement a baby seating. While he loves his street meat (which he probably pulverizes into a baby-friendly paste for little Harry), Zach misses dining out at nicer...
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Lord of Midtown Lunching Zach Brooks was featured in a Canadian documentary produced by the CBC called The Great Food Revolution. A portion of Part Four was dedicated to food-blogging and features Zach strolling down the street, doing his...
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Photograph by Zach Brooks on Flickr That's no ordinary baby eying a bowl of Chinese steam-table food; that's Harry, the progeny of Mr. Midtown Lunch, Zach Brooks. Zach clearly has no problem having lunch with his kid—if only he...
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From left: Pork before; pork after. Photographs from MidtownLunch on Flickr Last week, Zach Brooks was a sad man when Momofuku sold its last Bo Ssam package. But he ain't the giving-up type. Combining the powers of pork from...
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We love when Midtown Lunch king Zach eats somewhere outside Midtown and gives us the exclusive report. Today, he and his wife Sarah lucked into the first lunch service at the newly-reopened Kefi. for the record, i wasn't cheating...
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Our own Zach, also of Midtown Lunch fame, will now have someone to share in his street meat escapades! Little Harry Sheldon looks like the type who'd enjoy all-you-can-eat Indian buffets and the yellow rice from carts. Congratulations to...
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