I just started working at 111 Broadway (corner of Pine Street) and lunch stinks! Here's the couple of places I've gone or ordered in from, mainly by just following the lead of co-workers:

Cordato's Cordato's - This is an average deli. They give nice large portion of salad but the only vinaigrette they have is something they call Italian. It's really some red wine vinegar with a nasty corn or canola oil. Who dresses salad with corn/canola oil? Gross!

Win Won Win Won - All time worst Chinese food I've ever eaten. I got a beef noodle soup. The noodles were over-cooked, the beef tasted like fatty pork, and the stock was only very slightly better than a bullion cube stock. All the food just looked nasty too!

Panini & Co. Panini & Co Cafe - Another mass production sandwich/salad shop, except this one has a really obnoxious cashier. When I went to pay, there was no one behind me so I decided to give the cashier exact change. She starts screaming loudly to the idle (because there were no other customers paying at the time!!!) cashier next to her, "Why are women so slow? The men pay fast. OMG, come on, come on." Geez, I didn't realize there was such a rush to going back to being idle. I won't ever bother them again.

There's also some healthy (supposedly) place called Natural something....Ann Marie likes the veggie burgers so I decided to try their spinach burger. Man, was it DEEP FRIED. I hate when places falsely market themselves as healthy. Just cause a ton of oil is sitting in a whole wheat pita, they think they can call that healthy. Here's the bigger problem. They think that by marketing themselves as healthy, it gives them license to not taste as good. So I finished eating feeling really jipped.

The trucks and carts with gyros, falafels, and chicken over rice are my best bet so far. None of them are great near me but it's decent and cheaper than anything else I've found so far. Actually, I get my coffee in the morning from the guy in the tin box on the corner of Broadway (west side) and Pine. He's my favorite vendor so far. It's good, hot coffee, from a friendly guy that follows my instructions - 1 sugar, half & half....and after the first couple of days, he remembered that I didn't want a bag.

Please someone, post a comment if you know of good food in the area. Save me!