There has been a Mexican food truck parked about a mile from my house since October. It is freakishly good. Best street tacos and maybe the best Mexican food I have ever had…been going there 2-3x a week. I actually snuck there and ate on Sunday without my wife’s knowledge as she has been making fun of me. I think I may have a problem. Paul W. in South Carolina. 🙂
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Food trucks are common. Historically it was mostly Mexican food/lunch like stuff.
Since about 2010 there was an explosion in the scene and food trucks function almost like mobile restaurants now. There are several restaurants in my area that opened as food trucks initially. A lot of chefs have gone from restaurants to opening their own food trucks. You can basically get any type of food from food trucks now.
I used to work for an event planning company in my area that would throw events with food trucks.
Yep. I live in a pretty small town, but in sort of a cluster of small towns, so there’s a few that go around to all the local festivals and events and such.
Most are barbecue, occasionally you’ll see one for Tex-Mex
No. I’ve never even eaten at one.I know there are a few in the state, a cod one, a wing one and a philly cheese steak one. But they don’t come to my parts lol
I live in a neighborhood with a zillion food trucks. Right by my house is a brewery that *currently* has the following: a thai place; a mexican/indian fusion place (amazing); a guatemalan place; two sandwich-type places; a ramen place; a pizza place; and a burger place. Next door to that is a distillery with a place that focuses on grilled cheese. Down the street is another distillery that has a tex/mex place, a vietnamese place, and a bbq place. Around the corner from that is a little “pod” of food carts that includes a korean/chicken place, a sushi burrito place, and a third one I forget. There’s another truck at a different bar in my neighborhood that specializes in oysters (believe it or not). There’s also a mexican restaurant that started as a food truck, and they keep the food truck parked on the property to serve breakfast. Further down the street is another brewery with its own large pod of food trucks, including a poke place, a hawaiian place, another pizza place, another mexican place, and a place that does mainly cheesesteaks.
All of this is within a five minute walking radius of my house. If I expanded that to fifteen minutes, this comment would be many paragraphs long.
They seem common enough in Mass — but not like LA common.
They are common here, Cleveland suburbs. Mexican, BBQ, ice cream and sweet treats, Mediterranean, sub sandwiches….I’m sure there are more.
I live in California and there’s a taco truck that’s basically permanently parked next to the Grocery Outlet near my house. I remember back in the 2016 presidential election some pro-Trump person tweeted that if he didn’t win, there would be a “taco truck on every corner!” Of course all my friends were like “sign me the heck up!”
Central & South American food trucks have been posted up at gas stations and shopping centers around Houston since before I moved here in 2008. They’re still there (and pretty reliably awesome), but now in the last 5-10 years, other styles (pizza, burgers, BBQ, sandwiches, papusas, Asian fusions, etc) have become popular at social gathering places like bars & breweries.
Yes, but in my circles, they’re more at community events and less around just for lunch most days. Regardless, they sell $18 grilled cheeses, $5 iced teas, $12 milkshakes, and $23 bbq pork sandwich/fries combos. I have no idea why they’re so expensive and so popular.
The city I live in has a dedicated food truck court where food trucks can rent a space. It has picnic tables, bathrooms, and a parking lot. Currently there are a few Mexican places, chicken wings, Indian, some healthy salad bowl place, Italian, pretzels, churros, rolled ice cream/boba, and Nepalese. We go pretty often when my family can’t agree on what to have for dinner. Everyone can get their own meal and hang out at the picnic tables. Pretty neat if you ask me!
Food trucks are for the people that are talented with food but lack the resources for a brick and mortar. Seek them out and give them your money. The only downside is your going to end up with one less food truck and that sucks balls.
Very very common and all types of food in the Portland, Oregon area. A lot of them are in pods with communal seating areas and sometimes restrooms etc. It’s a good way for aspiring restaurateurs to try out their business and gain fans or fine tune their offerings with a lower startup and operating cost than a full restaurant. There are multiple of these within a few miles of where I live. My favorite so far is a shwarma place owned I believe by an Iraqi family.
I used to work near a lot of college bars, and there were food trucks that did grilled cheese and one that did Greek. Their food was so good I think they and a third truck went in on a brick and mortar store together.
I sold coffee, so I was usually closing as they were setting up, but their staff regularly tipped 100% or more.
Where I am now, there’s a Mexican truck at pride every year and a curry one at a brewery on Sundays.
There are too many where I live to list, so I’ll just leave this link [here](https://toledocitypaper.com/guides/toledo-food-truck-guide/).
I’m in Oregon and used to live very close to an entire city block of food trucks/carts. Food carts are quite common in my city and more than a couple popular local restaurants started out that way. There are all kinds of food carts — at one local “pod” I can think of has one for Korean, Thai, Indian, Chinese, burgers, a grilled cheese cart, boba tea, waffles, Russian dumplings, vegan, and more.
Tacos and bbq
Yes. I work within a couple miles of two food cart pods and there are many more near my apartment.
Describing the type is challenging. The whole point of larger food cart pods is to cover as many bases as possible. The one near my place has Russian/Georgian food, sushi, Mexican, Peruvian, liège waffles, crêpes, Korean-style corn dogs, standard burger and fries, birria, several kinds of pizza, ramen, pho, etc.
Not in my town, but theres an unincorporated part of the county where theres a street packed with food trucks selling every kind of regional mexican food you can think of
I feel like there used to be more of them, but they’re still fairly common. Mexican is the most common type, but there are a lot of options.
My apartment complex hosts food truck nights several times a month. Usually it’s Mexican, bbq, or Asian food.
We have lots of them in the Columbus area.
When I first moved here 20+ years ago they were mostly taco trucks. Probably 75% of them. The other quarter was mostly what I’ll loosely call tailgate food. Burgers, hot dogs, brats, polish sausages, etc etc.
Nowadays there are a lot more of them and a whole lot more variety. Of course you still have the taco trucks that are very popular. You don’t see the tailgate food trucks too much anymore. Usually when I do it’s either at a tailgate, construction site or in the parking lot of a home improvement store. My area has a lot of African food trucks. I’ve also seen greek, German, pizza trucks and just about everything else from time to time. I’ve even seen a breakfast food truck. Loved that one. They had great biscuits and gravy.
There are a lot of fusion places too. Trucks doing things you wouldn’t think work bit it totally does. Like Korean Tacos. I also saw a truck that was making sloppy joes but had a lot of asian influenced flavors and you got it on a bao bun.
There is even a Lobster Roll truck that people seem to like. I’m not paying $25 for a Lobster Roll off of a truck in Ohio. So I’ve never tried that one.
Heck yes. Birria is big in this area and it’s all fantastic. Some trucks have birria ramen. Oh man.
Yes and freaking everything. Swedish, Caribbean, Puerto Rican, Taco Trucks, various Asian cuisines….
Yes. All types in the Bay Area. Southern, Indian, Nepalese, Mexican, Thai, Filipino, Chinese, Salvadoran, Mediterranean, Brazilian, Caribbean, German, Italian, and so much fusion.
I think the only thing I personally haven’t had is any Africa specific trucks but I bet there is an Ethiopian or Kenyan one somewhere.
A million taco trucks in my area, which means they serve all kinds of Mexican food.
There’s a gyro truck. A couple burger trucks. I think there is a pizza truck, but it’s like a pretty permanent location.
You are a lucky MFer
That sounds amazing