UrbanSpace

I am a big fan of street food so was excited to try out this venue. The food was ok but very pricey for the portion and quality. I had a pizza and tacos. Overall nice atmosphere but you’re better off eating at the regular trucks nearby.

The location is great but the selections are mostly the same as broadway bites which is closer to me and this place only has a handful of vendors that sell expensive food for the qty.

Oh, man. I live in the Bay Area, where there are food trucks abound serving cuisine from all over the world. As a result, I love a good street food scene, and couldn’t wait to try street food from New York. I have to say that I was really underwhelmed by UrbanSpace.
UrbanSpace is a long string of street vendors including a wide range of establishments — Thai, Japanese, Italian, Peruvian, macaron bakeries, you name it. I tried food from three vendors — a pizza joint at the very end of the strip, a Thai eatery, a Japanese fusion vendor, and an Argentinian place.
The Thai coconut curry chicken was probably the worst I’ve ever eaten. Served rather cold, it was dry and bland. The Japanese salmon rice bowl was quite tasteless. The pizza tasted like thin-​cut cardboard with a garnish of some reheated tomato sauce, and the small empanada I tasted was unremarkable to the point that I don’t have any recollection of how it tasted.
I’m bumping my rating up a star because it is really nice to eat outside on the small tables in the middle of New York, and the service at each of those locations was great. The quality of the food, however, was not. I won’t be back.

I will always be a fan of street vendors. UrbanSpace is in the Times Square area where Super Bowl Blvd used to be way back in February.
It is a lot smaller with approximately 25 different food vendors. It is running until this Friday, October 17^th.
Due to the inclement weather (it started to pour), we didn’t stay long. We ordered from the Red Hook Lobster Pound and Mighty Balls then brought it all home instead of eating outside like originally planned.
From Red Hook Lobster Pound we had the Lobster Mac and Cheese, which had ¹⁄₈ lb of lobster with 4 cheese sauces and organic pasta. The wife went with the Lobster BLT which was ¹⁄₈ lb of lobster served with two slices of bacon on a lobster roll and tossed with a chipotle mayo. It was pure heaven!
Next up was Mighty Balls, they serve all kinds of meatballs with different sauces and cheeses so you can get very creative. You can have just the balls, a slider, or hero. We went with the hero and slightly different, turkey meatballs with a cranberry horseradish sauce. Yes, everything is a little pricey, but it is NYC.
Just wish it was around for a little while longer, and hopefully it will come back next year.

Just like Broadway Bites a little further down the street, UrbanSpace brings you another outdoor dining adventure in the Garment District. Pooling a bunch of well-​known area eateries and vendors in booths along the Broadway pedestrian mall just south of Times Square is a great way to sample some of NYC’s tasty treats. It will be for a limited time until 10/​17, so you’ll have to hoof it or wait to see if they come back next year.
A full range of local eats are represented, which reflects the cross section of ethnic/​culture that is New York. With Thai, Japanese, Turkish, Italian, Chinese cuisines being offered, there’s pretty much anything to satisfy your palate. It was very hard to choose among the varied menus, but most vendors kept it simple and stuck with their most popular dishes. Lots of steel tables & chairs along the mall for you to sit and enjoy your food also.
We started out at the north end at Mimi & Coco’s for some takoyaki, a boat of doughy octopus balls topped with bonito flakes and a side of edamame & corn. The balls were lacking in octopus and the edamame was salty, but not bad. Next stop, Roberta’s for some thin crust pizza. They brought their mobile wood fired oven and cranked out our white pizza in nothing flat. We moved onto Bangkok Bar for some tasty, freshly cooked chicken pad thai. What I was looking forward to was Red Hook Lobster Pound and their buttery, succulent Connecticut lobster roll. Paired with a cup of clam chowder, the tastebuds were jumping! Dessert? Wafels & Dinges is in the house. The Throwdown Wafel (inspired by Bobby Flay) was super sweet with speculoos spread, whipped cream & powdered sugar and enough to get 2 people’s sugar to diabetic levels.
Everything was a little on the pricey side, but nowhere else were you going to get this kind of eating experience, so it was well worth it. There were also plenty of other food stands to try. Remember, another week and a half and it’s gone!