Newborn: City Kitchen
Not indicative of actual lunch crowds (I hope).
I’m pretty sure that I recently said 2015 was going to be about embracing the personal, not the service-oriented. How does a new food court, more Gotham West/Berg’n than Riese Organization, fit into this rubric? Well, City Kitchen is two blocks from my office in Times Square’s sad lunch zone. So, yeah.
Imagine these full sized
Open to the public today, the second floor collection of stands includes established favorites like Luke’s Lobster, Dough, Sigmund’s Pretzels, offshoots like Ilili Box and perhaps most notably, Kuro Obi, an Ippudo spin-off with noodles that are supposedly resistant to take-out.
Whitmans’ PB&B (bacon and peanut butter) slider
Also, there will be breakfast tacos (at Gabriela’s Taqueria) which I would be willing to trade for my usual hard-boiled egg (I know) every now and then, as well as beer, wine and sake, for lunch hour tipplers. (Though if you’re a serious day-drinker, you’ll probably be better suited to Smith’s across the street when it re-opens courtesy of Hayden Panitierre’s dad.)
City Kitchen * Eighth Ave. & 44th St., New York, NY
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How was the food?
Good, though if you’ve had Dough donuts or Luke’s Lobster etc., you kind of already know what to expect. I’m interested in the ramen but didn’t sample any because it was too tricky to eat while walking around.