Food Shark. Located in Marfa, TX, this silver beast stations itself under the pavillion between the railroad tracks and Marfa Book Co serving up Mediterranean dishes like Marfalafels and hummus. At night, the Food Shark roams the streets eager to feed late night movers and shakers.
Flip Happy Crepes. Made from scratch, with love, all from inside a vintage Airsteam. Flip Happy Crepes is located in Austin, TX and serves up sweet and savory crepes, as well as special breakfast crepes on Saturday.
DessertTruck. Started by two friends, Chris Chen and Jerome Chang, a former pastry sous chef at Le Cirque, they aim to make people smile one dessert at a time. DessertTruck is parked around St. Mark's Place in New York City and cranks out fine-dining desserts like Coconut Tapioca and Molten Chocolate Cake. All served in eco-friendly cups; doing both stomachs and the environment good!
UPDATE: How in the world could I leave out this gem of a food truck?
19 comments:
oh wow! now I want sweets at 8:45 am! The crepe looks so amazing :)
Didn't I see the crepe girls on the FOOD network-throwdown with Bobby Flay?
I love that these people had an idea and went for it.
Great post!You are making me so hungry this morning! The dessert truck looks especially yummy!
Here's the cupcake stand I was talking about in Austin:
http://austin.citysearch.com/profile/45674356/austin_tx/hey_cupcake.html
Oh yum yum - they do it right! These look just wonderful - great finds!
you forgot a very important spot:
http://urbangraceinteriors.typepad.com/the_blog/2008/07/drive-thru-addition.html
but i still enjoyed the above profiles.
It is my dream to visit Marfa someday soon. I will definitely add the Food Shark to my itinerary! Also, there's an awesome place called Skillet in Seattle, same idea: http://www.skilletstreetfood.com/
I'm rallying up for an Austin post soon, complete with my coverage of said flip happy crepes.
And considering that this weekend (whilst on vacation in the great state of texas) there was a big fat article on food trucks of americana in the travel section of some newspaper...
coincidence? I think not. (Of course Marfa and Flip Happy made the cut!)
i love hearing about stuff like this. :)
Ohhhhhh I so want a drive up food truck....we have nothing like that in our area!!! You are so so lucky! (New to your blog and just had to comment!!)
Oh how I wish they would have a dessert truck rollin' through my hood. Mmmm!
OK clearly I need to have a second installment of this post! So many great food trucks!!
And Little Miss...when you find out what newspaper, please let me know. I would love to read that article! so up my alley...
In my hood the only food truck we ever see is what we call "The Local Child Molester" truck. It's a creepy guy who sells prepackaged ice cream to kiddos.
It's inspiring to see the other options out there. YUM! Wish I had not read this when I was hungry at 10:30 at night.
i agree with you, the idea of great food on wheels has always appealed to me. the name food shark in itself is appealing enough!
It was in this past weekend's USA Today travel section, brought to you by this little link:
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/10great/2008-07-10-food-trucks_N.htm
I'll be dropping by the Culver City's "Green Truck" in September -- maybe we can start an ongoing report of these, and more. Anyone have any secret stash of food trucks out there, or live in the cities that the article mentions? Get eating, and get back to us!
WHat a delightful post, I live for stuff like this, and I love the fact that you feature trucks with a twist, desserts and crepes, yum!
seattle is also awash with great food trucks. So much fun! Check out www.skilletstreetfood.com
Ooooh yum! They look great. The closest thing we have here are pie carts - and the tonic for drunk revellers everywhere; the pie floater. Its a meat pie served in pea soup with tomato soup. Delish!
I can't wait to see the FOOD SHARK in Marfa myself! Thanks for the recommendation Courtney!
Food trucks......never heard them called that. I love the idea of the "dessert" one.....yummy!
The wedding sounds like my kind of affair! Making it a week long event is such a fab idea cause to me to spend that much moolah and it be over in a few hours is sad!:( GREAT POST< COURT!
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