January 08, 2015

V Street to serve lunch -- starting today

For your lunching pleasure.

By Brandon Baker
PhillyVoice Contributor

V Street/for PhillyVoice

Lunchtime 'Street Sweet': the Ice Cream Churro Sandwich.

Now you can feel as trendy eating lunch as you do eating dinner.

V Street, a Rittenhouse-located vegan "street food bar" from former Vedge chefs Rich Landau and Kate Jacoby, opened in October with a dinner and dessert menu, and has since updated with an evolving happy hour menu (boasting rad seasonal drink selections like a rye cocktail named the "Louisville Winter"). Starting today, it'll add a lunch menu to the list.

Lunch will be served from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., a V Street rep told PhillyVoice.com. On the menu: a yucatan wrap, a Korean fried tempeh reuben and barbecue carrot choripan (see the full listing below). Last week, V Street posted a photo of a tortilla with curried channa, avocado, greens, spicy ketchup and tofu ackee, though it should be clarified that it won't actually be on the menu. (Though you can get it as a dinner option.)

Way back in February 2014, Landau described V Street to Philly.com as a place that's not about play-it-safe menus -- it's a venue for "food warriors," he said. And goodness, he wasn't kidding.

See the finalized lunch menu below, courtesy of V Street:

BBQ Carrot Choripan

curtido, smoked black lentil puree, tomato, scallion, avocado

Pho French Dip

grilled mushrooms, greens, bean sprouts, jalapeno, thai basil, mushroom pho jus, baguette

Yucatan Wrap

charred zucchini, tofu asado, cilantro pesto, fried peppers, tomato, avocado

Korean Fried Tempeh Reuben

kimchee kraut, sriracha thousand island, grilled tomato, rye

Hong Kong Chopped Salad

cucumber, pickled chile tofu, edamame, avocado, radish, cauliflower, smoked trumpet mushrooms, sichuan peppercorn ranch

Phat Noodle Bowl