Food truck fare hits the road in the Metro
LEO's Eats with Robin Garr
If you’re trying to save on fuel during a summer that makes the case for global warming and when gasoline prices flirt with $4 per gallon, there’s a lot to like about a friendly food truck operator who brings lunch to your neighborhood.
Across the country, a veritable food truck race is under way, with food truck “pods” growing in with-it towns like Austin, Texas, and Portland, Ore. Louisville hasn’t exactly been at the forefront of this trend. Sprawling suburbs, our devotion to driving in a pedestrian-hostile environment, and state and local ordinances that snarl vendors in a web of red tape have seen to that.
But food trucks are becoming a more realistic option here, thanks to a growing cadre of creative folks who’ve endowed the city in recent months with food truck options that go beyond the ordinary.
Or, in the case of the Velveeta-yellow Li’l Cheezers truck (http://www.lilcheezers.com), Matt Davis and crew take the ordinary (grilled cheese sandwiches) and turn it extraordinary with quality ingredients, creative toppings and service with a smile.
Read the full review on LouisvilleHotBytes,
http://www.louisvillehotbytes.com/food- ... -the-metro
And in LEO Weekly:
http://leoweekly.com/dining/food-truck- ... road-metro
Where to find them
Food trucks move around, and current city and state ordinances foster this nomadic lifestyle by forbidding a truck to remain in one location more than 14 days before moving on down the road. We’ve tried to help by providing web addresses where available; check the websites for Facebook pages and Twitter links. I’ve created a Twitter Louisville Food Truck list, too, where you’ll find their live tweets assembled in one place: http://bit.ly/foodtrucksLHB.
Also, check out http://www.louisvillestreetfood.com.
Finally, many of the trucks will assemble on Saturday, Sept. 17, from 11 a.m.- 3 p.m., for the second Food Truckus Ruckus (http://twitter.com/#!/FdTruckusRuckus) in the parking lot of Fresh Start Growers Supply Co., 1007 E. Jefferson St.
In fact, drive by Growers Supply just about any day at lunchtime. Chances are you’ll spot a food truck there. I suggest you stop while it’s standing still.