A Belgian-waffle truck on Street Meat Week? Sounds très dubious, until you consider NYC's Wafels & Dinges offers pulled pork over a bacon-and-syrup waffle. Two kinds of pork, eleventy forms of sweetness? Giddy up, my good marchand ambulant.
Schnitzel and Things: First Eat
It took a war between the Ottomans and the Holy Roman Empire to bring schnitzel to Austria back in 1683. Today, a 1999 Chevy commercial truck delivers them to Midtown Manhattan office workers. Has society moved forward in these past 328 years? We stopped by Schnitzel & Things to find out.
Frites 'N' Meats: First Eat
Frites 'N' Meats survived a crash and propane-tank explosion
Go Burger Truck: First Eat
Traditional food trucks are grassroots arrangements — a retiree, a pot of chili and a steam tray of hot dogs. Go Burger's parent is a hospitality company known to non-New Yorkers as the BLT Steak chain. But does corporate backing mean a better truck burger is at hand? Let's find out.
Korilla BBQ Truck: First Eat
Los Angeles may claim the first food trucks serving Korean barbecue tacos, but Eddie Song's Korilla BBQ truck is New York's own version of the genre. It was also ranked among the Village Voice's Top 10 Vegetarian Street Foods, but we won't hold that against it.
Help us make our New York City food truck "meat-up" a reality
On Sunday, October 2nd, Jalopnik is sponsoring a food and art truck gathering called "Truck Yeah: A Mobile Meet Up," at Broom and Ludlow on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
