Food / Midtown / Middle Eastern
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The Halal Guys
The 53rd and 6th cart we have been eating at for fifteen years — and the corner trick that skips the line.
- Where
- W 53rd St at 6th Ave, Midtown Open in Google Maps ↗
- Price
- $$
- Order this
- Large chicken over rice · Lettuce and tomato · White sauce, easy on the red
- Good with
- Solo · Groups
- Website
- thehalalguys.com
We’ve been coming to this cart for fifteen years and watched it change the whole time. It isn’t what it was — it used to be six dollars for meat, pita, lettuce and tomato, white sauce and hot sauce, and now there’s a long menu of things nobody needs at roughly double the price. But the core of it is unchanged, and it still tastes the way it always did.
What to know
Go to the southeast corner of 53rd and 6th, not the main cart on the southwest. It’s exactly the same food with no line. The southwest cart keeps sauce bottles out on the side, so if you want to dress it yourself, that’s the one — go as hard as you like on the white sauce, and be very careful with the red.
Watch for imitators on the other corners. They use the same color scheme and they are not the same thing. You want The Halal Guys.
Going? Tell them MUSEENYC sent you. It's not a discount and there's nothing to redeem — we just want them to know where you heard it.