NYC Food Truck Lunch: Grilled Chicken Wrap From Absolute Greek

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We don't go to the Financial District (FiDi) too often, but when we do, it's not hard to find good street food. You just have to know where to look.

The corner of Wall & Water Sts. usually has a couple of good food trucks, as does Old Slip and Hanover Square.

We even found a new food truck in FiDi a few days ago called Absolute Greek. There are already a couple of Greek food trucks who serve similar fare, such as Uncle Gussy's and Souvlaki GR, but it's a big city, and there's plenty of room for all three.

Absolute Greek has been around for about two months and has standard Greek fare on the menu like gyros, souvlaki, Greek salads, spinach pie and stuffed grape leaves. Both Souvlaki GR and Uncle Gussy's are both very good, so the question is how well Absolute Greek pulls it off.

We ordered the Daily Special, which was a Chicken Wrap Platter for $10 (including fries).

Chicken, lettuce, tomato (which we declined), red onion and white sauce were wrapped in a tortilla like a Greek burrito. The whole package itself was also grilled for a couple of minutes.

The chicken inside the wrap was nicely grilled over charcoal on a skewer. You could even see a hole in the chicken from the skewer. Some of the meat was charred on one side, giving it that charcoal-grilled flavor, but the chicken was not dry.

A small container of tzaziki sauce was provided on the side. This was good for dipping the sandwich in, even though there was already a white sauce in the wrap. The yogurt-based tzaziki sauce was decent, but not nearly as garlicky as some of the other tzaziki sauces around. A heavier hand on the garlic would have been appreciated.

The fries were nice and crispy, with a little skin on some of them. The fries were dusted with oregano, but if you want  feta (and gyro meat), you have to spring for the Loaded Greek Fries for $8. With feta cheese and gyro meat, that sounds like a meal unto itself.

The side order of fries in the platter was plenty, especially with the wrap. Dipping the fries into tzaziki sauce was a pleasant and different way of eating fries. We usually just use ketchup.

On our first visit, Absolute Greek was good. The food was fresh, the chicken was charcoal-grilled, and the prices were about average. We look forward to trying more of their menu.

We found Absolute Greek at Wall & Water St, but they told us they usually park by Old Slip. Occasionally they come up to 47th St between Park & Lex, but as they said, it's tough to find parking in Midtown.

You can Find Absolute Greek on Twitter here and on Facebook here.