David Chang’s Makin’ You Dinner (and Lunch) and You’re Not Even Going to Go Broke
Maple, David Chang’s new food delivery service, is exactly what you think it is: totally delicious. The surprising thing is that it’s also kind of, sort of, cheap, at least by New York standards. Lunch is $12 and dinner’s $15. Um, we feel like we’ve spent $12 on a bottle of water before.
How do I get this delicious food? Are you lying to me?
Well, right now you can only get it if you’re in the FiDi. But soon, it will be Manhattan-wide. Once it hits your hood, you sign up, and you’ll receive menus every morning and evening, with what’s available for lunch and dinner. For lunch, there’s always a salad, a sandwich, and something heartier. For dinner, there’s always a vegetarian option, and two others. Think: Fava Bean and Root Vegetable Salad, Rosemary Roasted Leg of Lamb, Roasted Pork Cubano. We ate Brisket with Mashed Potatoes and Collards, and Tandoori Chicken with Avocado and Mango Salad, and some kind of magical slaw. We briefly considered never cooking again. (Then we remembered that we like to, but it is nice to have options…)
When Will I Use Maple?
- When you thought that you were going to a restaurant but all of your friends decide it would be fun to just “chill at your place!”. Super chill, guys. Super chill.
- When your in-laws are coming over, and you thought you’d try to make a soufflé, and you realized that you have no idea how to do that.
- When the roast chicken fell on the floor, the platter shattered, and now there’s glass in it, and your crying, and crying makes you hungry.
- When you’ve considered moving neighborhoods because you want new Seamless options.
- When it’s too cold outside.
- When it’s too hot outside.
- When it’s too pretty outside, and so you get it delivered to your favorite park, rooftop, tanning area, or carousel.
- When you want to pretend that you’ve cooked something.
- When you buy mistake burned your apartment building down, but you’re still hungry, so you order Maple to the smoldering ruins.
- When you damn well please. Because it’s fifteen bucks. And that, in New York dollars, is like, free.
Sign up to find out when Maple hits your ‘hood.