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| The pop-up truck featuring Bill Kim. |
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| Egg noodle salad with shrimp. |
This was a weird event. There were a lot of trucks that represented restaurants there and I honestly didn't see the point of waiting on line in the heat to sample food that had been sitting around when I could be getting it made fresh in the comfort of a restaurant. The trucks that represented single business entities, like the Wagyu Wagon and the Tamale Spaceship, had lines that were at least 20 minutes deep. I sat across from a man who had waited in the Wagyu Wagon line and he was enjoying a sloppy joe. He said it was good but fell silent when I asked him if it was worth the wait.
I like the idea of food trucks, I like that this event gave them good exposure, but waiting in long lines in the heat is a drag. Period.
I ran into a former coworker on the way out of the event and he was with his wife, who I later learned is a vegetarian. After recapping the items that I sampled, he replied, "Wow, that's a lot of meat." And now that I'm thinking about it, I'm not sure if there were many vegetarian options outside of the dessert trucks and some vegetarian tamales at the Tamale Spaceship truck.
Did you go to the event? What did you think?
I went to one of these in NY and had a similar experience. The insane lines ruined the experience. Food Trucks are much better in their natural, non-clustered, habitat.
ReplyDeleteSame experience in San Mateo. They recently began to do the events through Off the Grid and have been spreading through Bay Area cities. The food is acceptable, although for the price and wait required combined with the lack of seats and restroom facilities? Not good. Food trucks appear to be more a fad than anything else.
ReplyDeleteAlso found out that a large number of the food trucks running around in SF are corporate owned as opposed to being owned by smaller restaurants. It seems even less appealing.