goat beats feta
Even better, I thought. It’s the first time I’ve noticed the Schnitzel Truck (@schnitzeltruck) in DUMBO, the area of Brooklyn where I work. A bit more subdued than the @waffletruck, and parked around the corner today from the @RickshawTruck (ah, decisions), the Schnitzel Truck boasts a fairly long menu of schnitzel, condiment, and sides.
I tried the pork platter (there is also a sandwich option) with lentil salad, beets with chevre, and pesto mayo.
While the amount of schnitzel is slightly overwhelming, mostly I want to try more of the sides (beets were excellent). And panna cotta seems an unusual dessert for schnitzel, but I have much to learn about the ways of the Schnitzel Truck—let’s hope it continues through this neighborhood on a regular basis.
Expanding the number of lunch options with mobile food carts creates an invisible network known only to those actually walking/living/working in a given area, as I realized when I walked the same street yesterday with a diet book ghostwriter (blog post from this weekend soon) who remarked on the lack of restaurants when she worked here a year ago.
I blinked, seeing the street as though the carts might, at any moment, appear…
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July 28th, 2009 at 11:01 am
Oh man, Brooklynites have the right idea with these tasty lunch trucks. I was just remarking that other day that I’d be willing to put on my running shoes and chase down a neighborhood ice cream truck…if we had one.
July 28th, 2009 at 11:30 am
Mica, I just did a quick search and it turns out one can rent ice cream trucks, so perhaps we should do that later this summer. I’ll rent the truck and make ice cream, you can run, drumming up business, and we’ll make that neighborhood ice cream truck dream happen (I might make bacon ice cream).