Burgers!
So many different ones available.
So many different ways to create one.
Many trucks have them.
So coming across something new and unique is well, special!
Especially coming from a truck not known for it's burgers.
Enter Ta Bom! The truck touting it's "Brazillian Taste"
They have a burger, (Brazillian style I imagine), they call the Hamburgao.
This is a very imaginative Brazillian treatment of what has become an American classic.
First of all this burger is big. Although it doesn't say it anywhere, the patty looks to be about 1/4 to 1/3 of a pound. It's topped with scrambled eggs, bacon, potato stix, corn, mayo, lettuce, tomato and thousand island. I know that sounds like a lot of ingredients but it totally works. Those ingredients come together to create a new and unique taste. unexpected on a burger. The bun is soft and fluffy and the meat is perfectly cooked medium rare.
The comb comes with nicely seasoned fries and a drink for 10 bucks.
This is a food coma waiting to happen, absolutely one of the better burgers I have ever tasted.
So next time you come across Ta Bom, Give the Hamburgao a try. That is if you can get past the pastels, tacos, burritos, the Giselle wrap and the coxinhas!
This truck certainly will get a "Stalker Approved" sticker if we ever get around to having some made!!
Ta Bom is truly the bom!
Monday, August 29, 2011
Thursday, August 4, 2011
3 New Favorites
Your food truck stalkers in our efforts quest to try them all are always coming up with new favorites.
We seem to keep finding things that totally rock!
So rather than continually modifying our list, (that's just too much work) we'll feature our "Stalk of the Month"
Since this is our first one we're featuring 3 new, (to us), trucks.
We actually have the luxury of doing truck lunches 5 days a week if we choose to. So you can imagine we try a lot!
Our fist purveyor of culinary orgasmic bliss is Curb A Peel. We've now tried most of their menu and will keep coming back. To pinpoint down what these people serve is difficult. There are 4 tacos, a burrito, a sandwich and a quesadilla on their menu. But to call this Mexican food is doing it a disservice.
One of their tacos, if you could call it that, is the tacodilla. They take a quesadilla, fold it in half and fill it with taco fillings. What hasn't someone thought of this sooner!!??! This thing rocks!
Their red sorrel quesadilla is a quesadilla with red sorrel flowers in it and a gastrique on the outside I can't quite identify but boy is it good. The tacos, especially the drunken sailor are also set to this high standard. The top all that off with their awesome electronic menu and display window kitchen and you just want to make a pig of yourself. So on the 1 to 10 oink meter this one surely gets 10 oinks!
Next on our stalk of the month we find "Clean Street Food". This is a sandwich truck that just goes the extra mile. Chef/Owner Jack Harding clearly has a relationship with food. You can get any entree as a sandwich or naked, (no bread). This works because these fillings work on a bed of greens or between slices of bread. I tried the grilled pork and my partner tried the steak. We opted for bread. When we told him we were trying his truck for the first time he went out of his way to explain each thing and you could tell how much this man loves his food. He definitely showed pride in his food and well he should Every thing was perfectly balaced and well executed. This food rivals the cafes and bistro in Paris in my opinion. Kudos Mr. Harding for raising the bar for everyone else!
Finally, the farm gets loaded into the truck for Flatiron. This farm to street themed truck is quirky in a lot of ways except one. The food. Put simple, it rocks! The superstar here is the pork burger. A wonderful concoction of chorizo and ground pork, bacon, (it just keeps getting better), pickled onions, arugula and Manchego cheese on a bun. This thing is habit forming and yes, we would go out of our way for one. This thing is so good that I've never even tried their signature flat iron steak. I did however sample one of his dome made donut holes. Of course it melted in my mouth. One of the quirky things about this truck is that only a small part of their menu is set. There are usually daily specials that keep things interesting. And you never know what they'll be until you get there.
So there you have it, our Stalk of the month for July and August. If you get a chance to try any of these 3 by all means do so! They are all Stalker Approved
We seem to keep finding things that totally rock!
So rather than continually modifying our list, (that's just too much work) we'll feature our "Stalk of the Month"
Since this is our first one we're featuring 3 new, (to us), trucks.
We actually have the luxury of doing truck lunches 5 days a week if we choose to. So you can imagine we try a lot!
Our fist purveyor of culinary orgasmic bliss is Curb A Peel. We've now tried most of their menu and will keep coming back. To pinpoint down what these people serve is difficult. There are 4 tacos, a burrito, a sandwich and a quesadilla on their menu. But to call this Mexican food is doing it a disservice.
One of their tacos, if you could call it that, is the tacodilla. They take a quesadilla, fold it in half and fill it with taco fillings. What hasn't someone thought of this sooner!!??! This thing rocks!
Their red sorrel quesadilla is a quesadilla with red sorrel flowers in it and a gastrique on the outside I can't quite identify but boy is it good. The tacos, especially the drunken sailor are also set to this high standard. The top all that off with their awesome electronic menu and display window kitchen and you just want to make a pig of yourself. So on the 1 to 10 oink meter this one surely gets 10 oinks!
Next on our stalk of the month we find "Clean Street Food". This is a sandwich truck that just goes the extra mile. Chef/Owner Jack Harding clearly has a relationship with food. You can get any entree as a sandwich or naked, (no bread). This works because these fillings work on a bed of greens or between slices of bread. I tried the grilled pork and my partner tried the steak. We opted for bread. When we told him we were trying his truck for the first time he went out of his way to explain each thing and you could tell how much this man loves his food. He definitely showed pride in his food and well he should Every thing was perfectly balaced and well executed. This food rivals the cafes and bistro in Paris in my opinion. Kudos Mr. Harding for raising the bar for everyone else!
Finally, the farm gets loaded into the truck for Flatiron. This farm to street themed truck is quirky in a lot of ways except one. The food. Put simple, it rocks! The superstar here is the pork burger. A wonderful concoction of chorizo and ground pork, bacon, (it just keeps getting better), pickled onions, arugula and Manchego cheese on a bun. This thing is habit forming and yes, we would go out of our way for one. This thing is so good that I've never even tried their signature flat iron steak. I did however sample one of his dome made donut holes. Of course it melted in my mouth. One of the quirky things about this truck is that only a small part of their menu is set. There are usually daily specials that keep things interesting. And you never know what they'll be until you get there.
So there you have it, our Stalk of the month for July and August. If you get a chance to try any of these 3 by all means do so! They are all Stalker Approved
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