New York Street Food

Kimchi fries from Chi'lantro BBQ

One of our favorite columns to read is The Frugal Traveler in the NY Times.  When you’re loooking for good, cheap eats, as he often is, street food is usually at the top of the list.

This week he wrote about Austin, where he spent a $100 weekend.  Now that’s frugal!

We went to Austin last year for the SXSW Festival, and while it cost more than $100, our food bill was quite low from eating at only food trucks and trailers.

While Seth doesn’t name specific street food vendors, he does mention the Austin Food Carts app, put out by our colleague Mike Krell.

Click here to read the full column – and if you ever have a chance to go to Austin – take it!

Fried chicken from Ms. P's Electric Cock

photo courtesy of Snappy Snacks

Last year we had the pleasure of attending SXSW in Austin, the live music capital of the world.  In addition to being a great place to see live music , Austin also has one of the best street food scenes in the country, although it’s quite a bit different from New York or LA.

There are a few food trucks in Austin, but most of the vendors are in converted trailers and vehicles of different types.  We saw everything from Airstream trailers to school buses serving great food.

We posted six installments of NYSF In Austin during our time there, including local favorites such as Along Came A Slider, Cazamance, Chi’Lantro and Ms. P’s Electric Cock.

fried mac and cheese & fried chicken from Ms. P's Electric Cock

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The World’s Smallest Food Truck, located in Austin, Texas, sells döner kebaps, the Turkish sandwich similar to a Greek gyro.

What makes these so unique, in addition to being the only döner kebaps sold in Austin, is they are made and sold out of the back of a Smart Car.

Addie Broyles of the (Austin) American-Statesman wrote the story for Austin 360.com.

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Our friend and colleague, Tony Yamanaka, who runs FoodTrailersAustin.com, has recently set up the Food Trailer Alliance.  Last week, they had their 2nd meeting.

Similar to the NYC Food Truck Association, the organization consists of food trailer owners in Austin who are banding together to improve working conditions for all.  (more…)

For the final installment of NYSF In Austin, we’re bringing it all back home, and making a direct connection between Austin and New York.

What do Austin and New York have in common besides great street food, an awesome music scene, and lots of hipsters:  El Diablo Tacos, who started in the backyard of the Union Pool Hall in Brooklyn, and just last week opened a trailer in the backyard of the Barbarella and Swan Dive bars at 615 Red River in Austin.

Although we haven’t been to El Diablo Tacos in Brooklyn, they have enough of a reputation to be listed in our food truck directory.  It’s pretty funny that we are first trying them in Austin, but they are the perfect vendor for bringing it all back home.

shrimp taco

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