Lunch Break: Burgers, Pizza, Pho

Sometimes what you crave is good ol' American food... or perhaps some Vietnamese soup noodles to stave off the blues on a rainy day. By Yvo Sin.

Nick's Pizza

10826 Ascan Ave
Forest Hills, NY 11375
(718) 263-1126

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Nick's is the kind of place you want as your neighborhood pizza place, even though they don't sell by the slice. The pizza here is made with love, and it shows in every slice, from the scattered fresh mozzarella to the intensely flavored sauce. Every pie comes topped with fresh basil, carefully scattered across the piping hot thin crust pizza. Do yourself a favor and grab a pie today - and if you want some semblance of vegetables in your meal, add on a salad. You won't regret it.

Pho Grand

277 Grand St
New York, NY 10002
(212) 965-5366
phograndny.com/

Rainy days call for steaming bowls of noodle soup, and one can argue that Vietnamese noodle soup is one of the best kinds. Hours spent making the broth, a deeply flavored soup filled with rice noodles, topped with thin slices of barely cooked beef - the broth served so hot that it cooks the beef - doesn't that sound like the perfect lunch for today? If you're a big eater or with a friend, order the summer rolls; shrimp and rice noodles rolled up in a thin rice crepe skin, dipped into peanut sauce, will round out your meal.

Big Nick's Burger Joint

2175 Broadway
New York, NY 10024
(212) 362-9238

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The menu at Big Nick's is extensive and can be very intimidating. Forget all that, save yourself the time and just order the Bistro Burger (pictured). It will change your life. A large Angus burger with Swiss cheese, fried mushrooms, caramelized onions, served on grilled, thick-cut challah bread, cooked to perfection - juicy, bursting with flavor from the caramelized onions and fried mushrooms... This burger brings new meaning to burgers. Another dish not to miss: the hot Grecian style spinach, which includes tomato, onion and feta in a big plate of spinach... so good, you won't even realize you're being healthy.

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Yvo Sin is the founder and head writer of The Feisty Foodie.