Lunch Break: Cheap Meal Deals

Today's New York Lunch Break: Midday menus to make you drool, all for very good prices. By Yvo Sin.

Mimi's Hummus

1209 Cortelyou Rd
Brooklyn, NY 11218
(718) 284-4444
mimishummus.com

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Mimi's Hummus boasts a lunch menu with prices ranging from $6 to 13, though most dishes hover around $8, making this a bargain worth hunting. The food has to be good to be worth any price, though, and Mimi's has no trouble with that; the labne sandwich, served with pickles & olives, comes with labne cheese, cilantro spices, cauliflower salad, cumin mushrooms, and green tahini sauce, all stuffed into a pita to bursting, will knock your socks off (please put them back on). The hummus is, of course, fantastic, with five different kinds gracing the lunch menu - from traditional chickpea, to mushroom, to meat hummus. Try them all!

Hua Ji Pork Chop

7 Allen St
New York, NY 10002
(212) 219-9876

If pork chops have dreams and aspirations, it's to become a part of the Taiwanese dish known simply as "pork chop over rice" (pictured; $5 at Hua Ji) - fried, then lovingly placed over fluffy white rice drowned in a delicious pork sauce that can only be described as addictive as the best taste in the world. Savory, deep brown sauce flecked with bits of ground pork, accompanied by pickled veggies, it'll have you looking fervently around before lifting the container to your face so you can lick it clean. Pork chops so juicy it doesn't need the sauce grace the top of this concoction, bringing your lunchtime meal to new heights. Just make sure to lock your office door so your boss can't walk in and find you licking the inside of a plastic container. Bonus: this meal will cost you a cool Lincoln and no more.

Giorgio's of Gramercy

27 E 21st St
New York, NY 10011
(212) 477-0007
giorgiosofgramercy.com

Giorgio's of Gramercy offers quite a lovely lunch menu as well as a great prix fixe option - an appetizer, entree and dessert, all for $24.07. Too much food? Not to worry, their regular lunch menu won't break the bank either, with $10 sandwiches served with shoestring fries, salads running from $9 to $13, and pastas that can be ordered at half portion (the full is quite large). Whatever you choose, the service is friendly, and the food is good; what more can you want?

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