Fresh Day
“The portions are filling and the quality is much better than other spots selling Korean food in Midtown.”
“I haven't tried much else yet, and I don't know if I will soon – this udon makes me happy!”
“The salad bar is the best deal in town, you get a very generous portion of salad with dozens of fresh toppings to choose from.”
Fresh Day
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Has TV: Yes
Caters: Yes
Price range.
$ Price range Under $10
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Stopped for breakfast and found a friendly staff in a clean, huge restaurant with a bunch of options.
We grabbed three bagels with cream cheese, coffee and a juice for $10ish. The bagels were fresh and the cream cheese was very generously spread. The peppers cream cheese was the best of all and worth the extra .30 cents or so.
Coffee was decent and is a self serve kinda set up. Good for if you're close to the TODAY Show / Rockefeller and you don't wanna hit the slammed and kinda expensive Bouchon Bakery.
Amazing Japchae for $8.95!
I having been coming here again and again to get their Japchae (Korean glass noodle) with soy garlic sauce. There are many other options available, Udon, Ramen and Pho. (I have also tried the Pho, it was alright, I wouldn't come here for the Pho again.)
There are also buffet and chopped salad at this place I haven't tried, but the salad always has a line, so I assume it's good.
Fresh Day is a Korean deli located on a part of 48th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues that is chock full of lunch spots for office workers in the area. Since comfort and seating is a strong criteria for me when it comes to choosing a place for lunch, Fresh Day fit the bill.
Fresh Day is a bit narrow. You'll have to walk through the entire store and then go up a flight of stairs to reach the seating area. Once you're there, there is ample seating which looks down onto the deli floor.
Fresh Day is a conventional deli. There is a salad bar, which is a bit expensive. I think it's $7 a pound. Also there's a salad bar where you could get things hand-tossed. Also there is a hot food station where sandwiches are prepared by hand. I didn't see a place for self-serve soup. The best food here, in my opinion is the udon and ramen bar. Here you can get noodle soup. I recommend the udon because the ramen is actually ramen from a Korean dollar bag of dried ramen. Udon comes with a really tasty beef broth. Have it with all the toppings! In the same area as the noodle soup station, there is also a station that serves bulgogi and bibimbap, the greens variety, I didn't see any rice. They range from $9 to $10. The udon is about $7.
I happened to go on a very hot day, the recent 103 degree day. The air conditioning was straining, but generally, Fresh Day is a good place to eat.
So in the final analysis, come here for the fairly cheap Asian option. Not bad…
Awesome lunch option for Asian food, especially Korean food!
– a complete Korean hot food selection – seafood soodobu is amazing!!
– a complete selection for Asian noodle soup: pho, soba, udon…
– Asian lunch buffet
– Thai option: pad Thai too.
Definitely recommend to give it a try!!
Ignore everything but the Korean guy to the back and the right. The guy working there during lunch is the cook at Hell's Chicken on 10th Ave and he usually wears the shirt for it. He is a good Korean cook and portions are enormous for about $8-10. Each meal comes with two side dishes, usually bean sprouts and soup. I suggest budaechigae (Korean army stew, not on the menu) and whatever specials are pasted up on the wall (a cabbage soup they had a while back was really, really good.)
The food is on and off at Freshday Deli. It's your traditional deli/midtown lunch spot with a wide variety of selections for all meals (breakfast/lunch). There is a sandwich counter, salad bar, pay-by-the-weight buffet, and Asian/Korean hot items like udon, soft tofu soup, and bibimbap.
I have tried the Teok Manduguk (dumpling soup with sliced rice cake) and the Stir Fry with Pad Thai noodles + Pad Thai sauce (other noodle options include japchae, or glass noodles, udon, and soba). I loved the Teok Manduguk, but hated the "Pad Thai."
The Teok Manduguk had pieces of chewy sliced rice cake with dumplings (they were overcooked and falling apart…) and scallions in beef broth soup. It tasted similar to the soup that my mom makes, so I really enjoyed it.
It was a HUGE mistake to get the "Pad Thai" from a non-Thai restaurant. It certainly did NOT taste like Pad Thai (not even close…), but the noodles weren't authentic pad thai noodles, the sauce tasted like soy sauce, and the ingredients tasted fake overall. Never get the pad thai from here!
the food at the noodle station is where i always find myself for lunch. a solid 4 stars. i've been here enough times to merit a review. the noodles i've had were all with beef and was all tasty. the japchae was super greasy though. the pho is a good attempt but definitely not close to the real deal. also had the rice bowl which was good as well, rice a little on the dry side. udon is good they don't make it too mushy here. the price is not bad as well compared with the other korean place – kimchi. theres also seating on a small second level here. have yet to try out the hot section and all the other sections in here.
My new favorite lunch time obsession. Go to the back, right –Korean soups and lunch time delights!! Horrraaaayyyy!!!
Udon soup w/beef is awesome and you can add all the veggies for no extra charge $7!
Soft tofu w/seafood is awesome!! Huge portion!!! $8.95
Incredible, spicy, fast, and tasty!! lunch heaven