New York Street Food

We were contacted yesterday by a new truck serving iced coffee, iced tea and more called Cool Beans.

In addition to fresh-brewed iced coffee such as Dark Brazilian Santos and iced tea such as Dragonwell Green Tea, they have banana whips, which are the consistency of yogurt, gluten-free cookies, and they expect to be adding Belgian waffles this weekend.

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Right now, Sweetery NYC is giving out hundreds of 1/4 bags of coffee beans from their coffee roaster, Coffee Labs Roasters.

The free giveaway will be at the Sweetery NYC truck on Hudson & King today, while supplies last. They are scheduled to be at Hudson & King until 3:30pm.

We know how much the Japanese love vending machines – and one of the staples of Japanese vending machines is canned coffee.  Nothing like a can of coffee in the morning to get yourself up and around!

The coffee itself is generally pretty good, but the Japanese have a way with names that can be quite strange.  Inventorspot had a rundown of the top ten bizarre soft drinks in Japan.

We previously told you about Kidsbeer, and they also had a separate section for canned coffees.

Click through for some of the oddest Japanese canned coffee brands.

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We’ve been manning the communications channels and have some updates for all you New York Street Foodies out there.

• The new NYC Pizza Truck (above) let us in on some of their future plans.  According to the owner Adam, they are going to be offering thin crust cheese/pepperoni slices, pigs in blankets (yum!) and also soups and salads.  They are still sorting everything out with regard to pricing, but Adam assures us everything will be reasonably priced.

• If you’ve been wondering why the Calexico Carne Asada cart on Broome St has not been in it’s usual location – their permit expired.  Oops!  The Wooster & Prince cart is not affected and is still there weekdays for lunch.  The Vendley Brothers promise to have the Broome St. cart back in service as soon as possible.

• For all you frozen yogurt and coffee fans, a new truck called Joyride will be hitting the streets of Manhattan next Wed, July 21st.  Their motto is “Joy In A Cup”.  Their fro yo is made with organic yogurt and raw cane sugar – and you can get it buzzed (with a shot of caffeine) for only $.50 more.  Did we mention Joyride will also be serving Stumptown Coffee with quite an interesting array of coffee drinks, such as the Kubota (3 double shots of espresso infused with vanilla bean and marked with milk).  If that doesn’t put hair on your chest ladies, nothing will!  Full menu here.  Follow them on twitter here.

• There’s a new Moroccan food truck in town called Comme Ci, Comme Ça (“like this like that” in French) run by Chef Samir.  We haven’t tried it yet, but their specialty is couscous – vegetarian, beef, chicken and merguez sausage.  We love merguez sausage, so look for our review within the next week or so.  Their website is still a tabula rasa, but you gotta love their logo (below).  Follow them on twitter here, although we have also added them to our Mobile Munchies twitter feed.
  

Wafels and Dinges (and Dinges)

Be on the lookout for a new Bobby Flay Throwdown! with the Wafels & Dinges truck.  Good luck Bobby.  These are some serious wafels. [Serious Eats]

Picknick Smoked BBQ will be presenting Daily Specials soon at their downtown truck [Midtown Lunch]

Channel 13 profiled Carlos Sarabia’s coffee cart on 33rd St and 9th Ave as part of their series New York On The Clock [Gothamist]