Street Food

[theKB]

I hate to say this because I love the concept of food trucks but I have found every single one I have sampled to be average at best and grossly overpriced for the most part. The exception to that was Brasserie. That was fantastic and was a good value.

Tried a mac and cheese truck at the pride festivities and it was almost TEN BUCKS for a small bowl of mac and cheese. Now I am a big proponent of quality over quantity but for ten bucks you are in the neighborhood of a side of mac and cheese at some decent steak houses and most of that stuff is pretty tasty and I would expect it to be as good or better given the concept behind food trucks. The flavor was OK (nothing special) and the size was one of those small dixie paper bowls and then it was a couple bucks to add a few slivers of bacon. End result, I would have gladly paid five bucks for it and been satisfied but $10 and I felt gouged.

Same with a waffle truck, it was one with a funny name, but they had a "grilled cheese" waffle and it was just a flavorless waffle with a pile of processed cheese in the middle. Same with the breakfast cone that seemed like egg beaters were used and was overly sweet, the price didn't throw me, just felt again it was nothing special.

Those were my last two encounters and over time probably have visited a half dozen more and every time disappointed or just felt it wasn't worth the effort to get to them or the price paid aside from Brasserie, They were great!

Am I the only person that feels this way? I'm sure there are a few great trucks out there but I do feel like the selection process potentially would scare away those really great talents or ideas or having to take the risk that you get a bad spot or no spot at all while having invested in developing a concept etc.

It just seems like a mobile version of Vancouver's somewhat bleh food scene. Again a few shining stars exist but it just seems a lot is HEAVILY overpriced and pretending to be something it's not. (Flame suit on for that comment to hahaha!)