Food Trucks — Bringing all kinds of food to a street near you!
I know the food truck craze has gotten pretty big and since I had only experienced this phenomenon once last summer at a music in the park type event when I saw there was a food truck rally at the Royal Oak Farmer’s Market, I decided to attend with my family.
What a fun concept with different food choices available to satisfy different cravings that may exist amongst those in a group or to make up an eclectic dinner for oneself.
Last summer at the event I was at there was only one food choice and one dessert choice – pierogies and ice cream. The event that I attended last night offered about 7 food trucks, 2 of which offered dessert. Mexican, BBQ, mac & cheese, French sandwiches and dessert, pizza and ice cream were the options. After reviewing the menus and prices and after a short conversation about whether or not to stay or leave and go to a restaurant for a complete meal for about the same price and some “REAL” drinks we got our food truck tasting party started with 2 fire roasted pizzas – one Chicken Mediterranean and one Pile Up!from Rollin Stone Wood Fired Pizza truck.
They were both VERY good … loved the smoked flavor and fresh ingredients and the fact that they were just baked in front of us in a wood fire oven! Very cool!
Wanting to try something else , off we went to peruse the offerings again. We decided to go Mexican with El Guapo Grill food truck. Two of us tried the Korean Beef Taco which is marinated rib eye and asian slaw. It was super delicious!!! The other two each had tacos which were good also, but gone way too quick!
Just like my first experience with the pierogies, I found food truck dining a bit cumbersome…we didn’t get plates to eat from and all our tacos were in one container.
While I’m sure it’s quite a lucrative business for food truck operators, and while the food we had was very good and great tasting, we weren’t sold on the whole food truck dining concept. If you want a sit down meal, this isn’t it. But if you want a walk up bite to eat with your hands and be done, which is the object of street food I guess, isn’t it?, than this was all that! If you haven’t experienced food trucks, you might as well give it a try. You might LOVE it. Here’s a link to a newly formed food truck group on Facebook, Motor City Street Eats, where you can find out where and when food trucks will be. https://www.facebook.com/motorcitystreeteats/info