New York Street Food

In rural Virginia, a husband-and-wife team are proving that you don’t need to be in a big city to serve great street food and amass a decent following.   Serious Eats recently profiled Local Sixfortyseven, who in the past season set up at Virginia farmers’ markets including Winchester, Centreville, George Mason University and Reston, as well as wineries like Barrel Oak Winery and Lost Creek Winery, and other community events.

Local Sixfortyseven sources all of their ingredients from local farms or from their own garden.  They make Southern-inspired food that’s local, fresh, and seasonal.

For breakfast there’s strawberry-challah French toast and buckwheat pancakes with blackberry-rosemary syrup, and for lunch and dinners, it’s salads, wild-caught fish, country-fried pork chops, and a half-pound Piedmontese all-beef burger with all house-made condiments (ketchup, mustard, mayo, pickles, pickley green tomatoes, pickley peppers, and much more). For dessert, the pie odds are good. [Serious Eats]

New York Street Food would venture below the Mason-Dixon Line for the cheeseburger pictured below. Wow!

Local Sixfortyseven cheeseburger

La Dominique Crepes

Looking for something other than cheesesteaks in Philly?  We recently told you about some good Chinese food trucks there.  Since I’m heading out of town for a few days, I thought this would be a good time to tell you about some other options, first for breakfast, then for lunch.

For breakfast, La Dominique Crepes (pictured above) at 33^rd and Market has a killer breakfast entrée of a crepe stuffed with sausage that can compete with any hash-slinging L.A. truck.

Mickey D’s Grill, also at 33^rd and Market, has some of the best Philadelphia can offer for breakfast. Instead of regular toast, you’ll get two slices of pound cake, browned up just right. Throw in an egg and broccoli rabe mixture with provolone and spices and you’re good to go.

For lunch, if you want falafel, Christo’s falafel at 20^th and Market is one of the best.  Greek Gus has a way with a falafel, but he tends to run out early.

Then there’s Ton Ton, owned by Keiko Naka.  Her tiny vending cart is decorated with Hello Kitty, and she serves up excellent foods such as curried rice omelet and fried chicken. The prices are reasonable and the food is exceptional. She is also located at Market and 33rd Street.

For Caribbean and soul food, Denises Soul Food at 3rd and Market makes a macaroni and cheese that is fantastic. You should also try their famous peach cobbler. Denises Soul Food is located in a pink truck, so it’s not hard to find.

There are many other good choices available, but this is a nice start if you want some good and interesting street food in Philly for breakfast and lunch.

Buttermilk Truck (L.A.)

Someone needs to make a sacrifice to the street food gods so we can get a breakfast truck in NY like the Buttermilk Truck.  The L.A. street food pagans must have sacrificed quite a few virgins to get this beauty.  (Where they found virgins in L.A., I have no idea.  Although it might be pretty tough in NY, too)

Check out this menu:

Hawaiian Bread Cinnamon
French Toast Sticks

Served with powdered sugar and syrup
3 or 5 per order

Buttermilk Pancake Bites

Served with butter and syrup
Check for seasonal assorted flavors

Buttermilk Biscuit Breakfast Sandwiches

Served on housemade buttermilk biscuit with cheese and fried egg Choice of applewood smoked bacon, tocino, or chicken apple sausage
Available with rosemary garlic hash browns

Hawaiian Bread Breakfast Sliders

Portuguese sausage, sauteed onions and shoyu scrambled eggs on Hawaiian bread

Housemade Cake Donuts

Fried to golden brown and dusted with powdered sugar and glazed with cinnamon vanilla glaze
3 or 5 per order

Southwest Veggie Omelette

sauteed onions, tomatoes, jalapenos, cilantro topped with jack cheese and served with housemade cornbread

They also have a late night menu Thurs-Sat with most of the above, plus:

Fried Chicken with
Housemade Cinnamon Waffles

Served with butter and syrup

Buttermilk Brick

Hash browns, 2 eggs over easy, buttermilk biscuit and housemade chorizo gravy

COME ON NY!  WE CAN’T LET L.A. GET THE BEST OF US.

[Buttermilk Truck]

LEGAL DISCLAIMER: WE DO NOT ENDORSE THE SACRIFICING OF VIRGINS (JUST IN CASE SOMEONE COULDN’T FIGURE OUT THAT WAS A JOKE).