Nook October 21, 2004[CLOSED] An apt name, no doubt. Utilizing one of the many closet-like spaces on Ninth Avenue, Nook provides...
Così Sandwich Bar (Midtown East) June 10, 2004[CLOSED] These fast food joints are all over the city and seem to be spreading like the plague....
Pomodoro June 10, 2004This place is pretty basic. You have your soups, sandwiches and a few salads. Along with this normal...
The Coffee Pot June 10, 2004[CLOSED] I have a coworker who once called the Coffee Pot’s soup “the worst swill I have ever...
Say Cheese! June 10, 2004[CLOSED] This joint sounds as if it should be a photo studio for infants–you know the ones with...
Blimpie (Times Square) February 5, 2004[CLOSED] If depression was a sandwich, they’d make it at Blimpie. Every Blimpie I’ve been to is worse...
Subway (Times Square) February 5, 2004[CLOSED] This place is a mess. Apparently Papa John’s Pizza has moved into the same space, making the...
Quiznos (Midtown West) February 5, 2004[CLOSED] We’re going to skip right over talking about this company’s awful ad campaigns (remember the blowdart-to-the-neck commercial?)...
Subway (Midtown West) February 5, 2004Well, we’ll certainly give this place the efficiency award. They have the production line thing down to a...
Subway (Hell’s Kitchen) February 5, 2004[CLOSED] For some reason when God built establishments on 9th Avenue, he made them very small. He subdivided...
Pax Wholesome Foods (Midtown West) August 6, 2003[CLOSED] Pax’s sign claims they have “wholesome foods.” If wholesome is a euphemism for tasteless, then I guess...
Tom’s Gourmet Cafe August 6, 2003[CLOSED] The term “gourmet” is used way too loosely these days. What the hell makes something “gourmet?” Is...
Wrapsody April 1, 2003[CLOSED] You easterners have this apprehension about eating anything called a wrap. You think it’ll make you soft,...
Così Sandwich Bar (Times Square) December 12, 2002[CLOSED] Yuppies by the dozen pack this Times Square location. Actually, yuppies pack every one of these gyp...
Schlotzsky’s December 12, 2002[CLOSED] There’s something perverse about a “deli” being a public company (Nasdaq: BUNZ), let alone being sold on...
Subway (Carnegie Hill) June 9, 2002[CLOSED] Oh Jared, wherefore art thou Jared? My guess is that he’s at McDonald’s right now filling his...
Mangia – 48th Street June 9, 2002[CLOSED] Ah, Mangia, the name that is on the tip of lunching ladies’ and executive assistants’ tongues everywhere....
Devon & Blakely – Midtown East June 9, 2002There’s nothing in the world like waiting in huge, confusing lines to purchase overpriced soup and sandwiches. There’s...
