Yummy Fawl and Falafel Cart

This is the best Falafel place in downtown NYC. More importantly one of the best vegetarian places in NYC as well. Take the $ 6 platter. You will get about 6 – 7 falafels with rice, salad, baba ganoush and Tahini on the falafels. The salad will have some very nice eggplant, onions and peppers. A colleague recommended it and now this is for 2 days on our weekly schedule.

The best falafel in the financial district. Period. Having had falafel from Alan, Sams and mamouns, i was not expecting much when I headed to this place for lunch. To my surprise, i found the guy who used to work for sams to be the owner of this place. The potion size was massive with falafel cooked on a need by basis with barely used oil and not all stacked at once. The caramelized onions, egg plants along with many falafels, salad, white sauce, hot sauce, baba ganoj, tahini and hummus stuffed in the sleeve for 4 bucks is as good as it gets. This guy genuinely tries to serve the best falafel and the business should pickup shortly.

I tried this cart for the first time today and I ordered the falafel platter. It was delicious. The falafel balls (and there were lots of them) are crispy and fresh. The platter comes with yellow rice, salad, peppers, fried eggplant, a spoonfull of hummus and tahina and hot sauce along with the falafel balls and a pita bread. For $ 6 you get this and a drink. My only complaint was that the rice was dry — but I will try to replace it with something else, like more salad or grape leaves.

Day Two of Cart Food Week and we’ve hit a gaping pothole – the Sharknado of Falafel Carts in terms of production values and the queasy feeling you get after having sat through the experience.
I’ve seen this cart up and down Barclay street between Greenwich and Church and figured that several months of it being in that general location was enough to give it a shot for lunch. My first red flag was how close the guy allowed people to get to the food… they were practically swimming in the baba ghanoush and blowing bubbles into the tahini. I should have beat a hasty exit but I was hungry and hot and pressed on. I stuck to the falafel sandwich because I saw him fry the falafel balls and, since previous diners had chosen the platter, the pitas were still nicely wrapped and un-​spittled.
The portion size was incredible, and the guy handed me a football that I then promptly ran for a first down (well, maybe it was a little further to the door of my office building and the sweet, sweet air conditioning inside). I started eating and everything was off to a good start but the sandwich started to fall apart from all sides. TO THE FORK! I kept digging into the food but, with each and every bite, I could feel the grease coating the insides of my teeth. Unfortunately that grease was not accompanied by flavor, and the meal grew more and more bland with every mouthful. It was just unpleasant. Even now, a few hours later, I am choking down Tums to ward off the reflux.
I colleague of mine got the platter but she stopped at about the same time and had a similar revulsion for the food.
Beware folks… this is not good eats!