New York Street Food

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Every culture has them – dough stuffed with meat, cheese or veggies. You can call them dumplings, ravioli, empanadas, gyoza or a host of other names, but it’s still dough filled with yumminess after it’s fried, steamed, baked or boiled.

There’s a fairly new food truck in town called Old Traditional Polish Cuisine that serves pierogies. During our First Look, we tried their kielbasa and potato & cheese pierogies, but they didn’t have any meat pierogies available that day.

You can get 7 pierogies for $8 or 9 for $10. This time we went for the pierogi combo, which was the large with a mix of meat and potato & cheese pierogies for $10.

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Late last week we went to Uncle Gussy’s for lunch (review still to come). After leaving the truck with lunch in hand, we saw a new food truck across Park Ave on 51st St that we hadn’t seen before. It was designed to looked like a cabin in the woods.

Upon closer inspection, the name of the truck is Old Traditional Polish Cuisine (OTPC), and they have pierogies and kielbasa. Be still my heart!

To paraphrase Anthony Bourdain, “there’s nothing better than meat in tube form”. We couldn’t agree more, from wurst at Hallo Berlin to kielbasa at OTPC, we love the stuff.

We expected the kilebasa to be right up our alley. The question in our mind was how good the pierogies would be. We have family in rural PA who make some kick-ass pierogies.

In order to sample things, we got a “Lite Combo” for $10, which was kielbasa and potato & cheese pierogies. You can see the full menu here.

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Late last year, there was a new truck in the Flatiron area called the Cevap Truck.  At that time, the guys in the Cevap (pronounced “che-vop”) Truck told me they were originally from Bosnia, had opened a restaurant in Astoria named Ukus, and started this truck last December, when it was pretty f’ing cold out.  They disappeared a little while later, but I wasn’t too surprised because the middle of winter is not the time to launch a new food truck.

I was hoping the Cevap Truck would be back when the weather got nicer, but they didn’t respond to my emails asking when they were coming back.  Not a good sign. Just when I thought they were gone for good, the green truck reappeared around Bryant Park a couple of weeks ago.

The menu is pretty much the same, with a couple of adjustments, which I’ll describe below.

Today’s Lunch is a cevapi platter ($10) from the Cevap Truck.

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A couple of weeks ago, I had a great new lunch, cevapi, from a brand new Bosnian food truck – the Cevap Truck, located on 5th Ave between 21st & 22nd St.  It was good enough that I wanted to try something else from there.

Today’s Lunch is chicken kebab ($5) and a meat burek ($3) from the Cevap  (pronounced “che-vop”) Truck.

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Last week after I got a Spanish Sub from the World’s Best Sandwich truck, on the way back to the subway at 23rd & Broadway, I saw a green truck on the street that I hadn’t seen before.  It said Cevap Truck and it looked pretty interesting, but I already had lunch in my hand.

I did a little research on the Cevap Truck over the weekend and saw that someone on Midtown Lunch spotted them too, but hadn’t tried it yet.

I had to be in the Flatiron District again, and was able to stop there for Today’s Lunch, which was cevapi ($5) and a cheese burek ($3).  (NYSF note: I stopped by the Cevap Truck yesterday, but didn’t have time to write this up until last night.)

I spoke to the guys for a while and got some good info, including how to pronounce cevap.  Find out more after the jump.

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