food trucks
Recipe of the Week: Strawberry Shortcake from Biscuit Box
A fresh, distinctive take on classic strawberry shortcake
Fresh-baked biscuits. Ginger- and mint-infused macerated strawberries. Vanilla bean chantilly whipped cream. This is strawberry shortcake for the full-on epicurean. This scrumptious recipe from the folks behind the Biscuit Box food truck—operated by local mobile dining company Mobile Mavens—is just begging be savored in the sunshine. And with the first official day of summer finally here,…
Get an Early Taste of Monte Cristo, a Gourmet Grilled Cheese Truck
Danielle Custer, who old-timers like me remember from her chef jobs at 727 Pine and Fullers in the Sheraton, and who more recently worked at Taste SAM, is launching Monte Cristo, a gourmet grilled cheese truck on Monday, October 22nd at Starbucks in Sodo (for more current whereabouts, visit Monte’s website or Twitter page). At…
Best New Portland Food Trucks
Sure bets are rolling up with the latest wave of mobile food trucks.
Downtown food-cart clusters, like the mighty pod at SW Ninth and Alder, have been around since the 1980s, but new pods with names like Cartopia and Good Food Here bring fusion fare and fries to parking lots in more remote neighborhoods. (Cartopia is the lone late-night pod, serving food until 3 a.m.) According to Multnomah…
Skillet Diner is Unpretentious, Really Good Food
The brick-and-mortar sister of food truck Skillet Street Food is as good as we'd hoped.
You’ve gotta figure that a guy who builds his business out of an Airstream trailer has a sense of humor and a lightness of heart, and Josh Henderson’s Skillet Diner—the new brick-and-mortar sister of food truck Skillet Street Food—proves you right. On the hottest new corner in “foodland,” 14th and Union (also home to the relocated…
Mobile Food News! Night Market debuting this week in Capitol Hill
New Capitol Hill Night Market for the hungry Saturday crowd.
Late night eaters will be happy to know that the Capitol Hill Night Market kicks off this Saturday, June 4th, in the block between Pike and Harvard, featuring a sampling of Seattle food trucks including Pai’s, Buns on Wheels, Curry Now!, Street Treats, Fusion on the Run, and Lumpia World. Capitol Hill Night Market, Pike &…
Seattle Food Trucks Go Brick and Mortar
Marination Mobile and Skillet open stationary restaurants in Capitol Hill.
If you plot its weekly stops on a map, you’ll notice that Marination Mobile’s food truck bypasses Capitol Hill entirely, a detour owners Kamala Saxton and Roz Edison say is no accident. Brick-and-mortar restaurants proliferate like crazy on Capitol Hill, thanks to population density and a high concentration of food enthusiasts on a budget. But…