"bamn!" news and stories

I grew up in the Midwest and have been on the West Coast for a long time, so I really have no experience with an automat, but I've definitely eaten through my share of vending machines. Work through lunch? Sure, lemme go gran a Diet Coke and a bag of Funyuns!

But New York's new Bamn! at 37 St. Mark's Place (between 2nd and 3rd Aves.) is bigger, better, and badder ass than a regular vending machine. It serves real food, and hot, too: burgers, mac & cheese, pizza, chicken strips, grilled cheese, hot dogs, and pork buns. Most importantly, as their website says, it is served 25 hours a day.

Is Bamn! God's gift to gourmets-on-the-go? The boys from Slice NY and A Hamburger aToday made a recent visit, but according to Adam, Bamn! isn't all that: "I wish I could say 'hot and delicious treat,' but the offerings at the newly opened automat Bamn just didn't stack up."

[via: Slice NY]