Today we had lunch from Daisy May's BBQ cart in the Financial District. The food isn't all that cheap for cart food, but it's delicious, and it's actually a real reastaurant in Hell's Kitchen. As far as BBQ goes it's some of the best I've had in the city. With lunch from the cart you get a sesame seed bun, coleslaw, and your choice of bbq food (pulled pork and brisket are my favorite). If you've tried anything from this cart let us know what you think!!

Last week I went to my favorite downtown cart. I call it the "Italian Cart Guy" but more than one person runs it and the real name is Ravioli Fair. The cart is located in the Financial District on Nassua halfway between Cedar and Liberty on the East side of the street. Italian sandwiches and pasta both hot and cold are served at Ravioli Fare, the lasagne being my favorite. There is a limited amount of each item so get to the cart around noon for the full seleciton. Here is a photo of the cart:



and the lasagne:

What do you think is the best thing about cart food? Is it the mobility? The speed at which your meal is made? The low low costs of it? Or the tasty deliciousness of it all? please discuss!!
-Dave

The long and winding path to a food cart..

In the interest of public food-cart edification, but mostly to serve the end of increasing the number of postings on this site by a whopping 50%, we, the helpful iheartcarts founders, are including information about starting one's own food cart business.

How, you ask, do we plan to do this?
Are we going to give you the proverbial fish?
of course not! That would be short-sighted and irresponsible.
Are we going to "teach you to fish" so to speak?
that sounds like entirely too much work. So... no.
Are we going to post a link regarding one infinitesimal (though let-me-tell-you, essential) aspect of launching a food cart business in NYC, even though by itself it's not very helpful and also informs you right on the official page that it's not realistic to expect to get a cart (due to a long wait-list -- but i don't want to give away too much!), and consider our job done?
hell yes!

Do we promise never to publish this sort of filler information again?
Not unless we are really really starved for content. Or really lazy. Or get drunk and forget that we promised, so it's not really like we broke the promise intentionally.


Without further ado, a link:

New York City Street Vendor Information Page

A view from our cart spotting helicopter...see if you can find some!!

Carts Ho!

Ryan, Dave, Adam, and Marc. (all of whom have day-jobs)

and Dan! from Coronado California's Cali-Kites!

and Alex! from Palm Springs California