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Filipino food trucks: Big Boys now open in Pacific, Lumpia World stops serving at UWT

Sue Kidd — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:46:37 +0000

The grating chill blew in sideways through the window on the Big Boys Filipino food truck, but the couple working inside didn’t seem bothered much. My teeth chattered and I winced at taking my hands out of my pockets to fetch my credit card. Such is life for a hired belly researching mobile food businesses in January. In January? Yeah. January. Although most of us think of May-October as the more sane food truck season, plenty of trucks and carts operate year round in South Sound. Yesterday, I wrote about Jay Dogs, a hot dog cart that set …

Mobile dining in the rainy season? You bet. Two new trucks are open for business

Sue Kidd — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:57:20 +0000

With the freezing fog and return of the rain (any minute?), I wondered if new mobile restaurant owners Nate Daep and Jay Gallinatti had second thoughts about starting their outdoor-based food businesses at a time of year when few diners are saying, “Hey, let’s eat outside!”

“We were really concerned about that,” laughed Nate Daep, who opened Big Boys Filipino food truck with fiance Melanie Querubin in a neighborhood in Pacific that straddles the Pierce County side of the Pierce-King County line. Ultimately, economics decided the couple would open their al fresco truck. They couldn’t afford to be idle waiting …

Tacos al fresco? Ricos Tacos returns and two new buses are in Puyallup

Sue Kidd — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 13:00:03 +0000

An accident led to the temporary closure of Ricos Tacos, a new and promising taco bus that opened earlier this year on the edge of Fircrest at 5015 S. Center St.,Tacoma. Yesterday, the bus returned to its home in the 76 Station parking lot – the sunny weather is long gone and so is the prime time taco truck season, but that didn’t stop customers from dropping by for tacos. Speaking of unseasonable taco truck weather, I spotted a few new buses in downtown Puyallup earlier this month. It’s not exactly al fresco dining season, but I’m …

A fair tradition: Fried meat pies

Sue Kidd — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 07:01:31 +0000

The smell of fried food is pretty much everywhere at the Puyallup Fair, but some fried things just smell better – especially when that fried thing is a fleischkuechle.

Fleischkuechle has a funny name. It’s a flattened meat pie stuffed with a filling so tasty, you know it’s going to be Defcon Level Unhealthy. Try not to think about that as you order three. It’s a dish with farflung European origins – Russian and German. It’s pronounced flish-KOOSH-lay or flish-KEESH-lay, depending on your European address.

Served out of a truck located just outside the fairgrounds, the business …

Food truck meetup this Saturday at Cheney Stadium

Sue Kidd — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 19:21:10 +0000

Get your stretchy pants ready – a mini mobile truck festival is this Saturday.

D.I.N.E. – which stands for Delicious Infield Nosh Extravaganza – will be a smaller festival than its sibling festival the Moveable Feast, which was a Cheney Stadium gathering in July of about 30 food trucks.

D.I.N.E. is a ticketed event – $10 buys you admission (plus the cost of food and beer). The festival will take place in the infield at Cheney, limiting attendance to 2,000. Hours are 5-10 p.m.

Organizer Alyson Jones, who created Moveable Feast with Celebrity Cake Studio owner Odette D’Aniello, …

Food truck meetup: Moveable Feast announces 2013 date and a mini festival

Sue Kidd — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 00:09:13 +0000

The organizers of Moveable Feast, the food cart meetup held two weeks ago at Cheney Stadium, have announced next year’s date for the mobile restaurant festival and also have plans for a smaller event in September. Here are the dates to save – Sept. 8 for the smaller mobile restaurant meetup and July 28, 2013 is the date for next year’s Moveable Feast.

D.I.N.E.
The Sept. 8 event is called Delicious Infield Nosh Extravaganza, or D.I.N.E., a smaller mobile feast with food trucks and live entertainment. D.I.N.E. has a different format than Moveable Feast …

Moveable Feast: Menus from the food trucks

Sue Kidd — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 20:34:52 +0000

I’m here at the Moveable Feast, Tacoma’s first mobile food cart meetup. I shot pictures of menus at most of the trucks. Take a look.

MAXIMUS MINIMUS

FLEISCHKUECHLE:

LUMPIA WORLD

SKILLET STREET FOOD

CHORIPAN

HILLTOP POP SHOP

ICE CREAM SOCIAL

JAY DOGS

BURRITO BOY

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Live report: Eating around the Moveable Feast at Cheney Stadium

Sue Kidd — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 20:09:03 +0000

For the first time, Tacoma’s food carts, trucks and mobile restaurants have found a collective home, if only for a day. About 30 South Sound and Seattle-area food trucks, carts and mobile restaurants are assembled right now at Cheney Stadium, home to Moveable Feast, Tacoma’s first-ever food cart meetup. Vendors will serve until 7 p.m. today.

Our neighbors to the north and south have food cart lots – places where mobile restaurants flock so that diners can mingle and graze, but Tacoma has yet to produce a home for Pierce County’s far-flung mobile restaurant

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Food cart meetup: Tacoma’s first mobile restaurant event this Sunday at Cheney Stadium

Sue Kidd — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 15:52:00 +0000

Tacoma has food trucks and carts aplenty, but there's no central meetup spot for trucks to gather - until now. Tacoma's first mobile food meetup will be Sunday at Cheney Stadium. The event is free except for the cost of food. Trucks will serve everything from Southern to Filipino, from Greek to Mexican, from fried meat pies to fry bread, from ice pops to cupcakes.

Moveable Feast update: More than half of participants will be South Sound food trucks

Sue Kidd — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 00:24:47 +0000

Moveable Feast organizers checked in this week with an update of Tacoma’s first mobile food meetup on July 29 at Cheney Stadium. I was impressed to see more than half of the 35 vendors will be South Sound mobile food vendors, catering stands or local restaurants. That’s a big increase from the short list organizers had initially booked when the event was announced in early June.

For background, read this June 7 blog post, but the quick and dirty highlights are this: The event is organized by Alyson Jones, director of media and events for the Tacoma Rainiers. …