New York Street Food

Eddie’s Pizza Truck has been on the NYC streets for about a year and a half, but the original Eddie’s Pizza has been a fixture in New Hyde Park since the 1930′s.  They serve what came to be known as a “bar pie” due to the fact that it is the perfect size to eat and still have room for a beer!

The truck uses the same bar pie recipe and cooking methods as the restaurant, replicating the thin-crust pies served at the restaurant.

Some people don’t consider bacon and pineapple on a pizza to be true pizza, but I’m more interested in taste than authenticity.  I love traditional New York pizza, but I also love bacon and pineapple, and they go surprisingly well with tomato sauce, mozzarella cheese and pizza crust.  The 10″ personal pizza was $10 and a larger pie I believe was $16.

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Now Eat This! is a food truck with a mission – actually a few missions.  It was founded by celebrity chef Rocco DiSpirito last November in conjunction with the release of his cookbook of the same name, which has 150 recipes for America’s favorite comfort foods, and all dishes are under 350 calories.

Mission #1 is to teach America how to eat healthy by (mission #2) buying his book and using these recipes.  But before you think this is just another celebrity cookbook,  there’s a great twist in mission #3 – 100% of the proceeds from food truck sales go to teaching New York City schoolchildren about healthy cooking and eating on Free Lunch Fridays.

Now Eat This! operates Mon-Thurs for the general public, and every Friday, the truck goes to a different school in the New York city area and gives free lunches to the kids, teaching them how to cook and eat healthier in the process.  Now that’s a mission worth supporting!

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Arancini (Sicilian rice balls)

If you like the rice balls at Papa Perrone’s truck, we have some good news and some bad news.

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As we told you towards the end of last year, Eddie’s Pizza Truck has expanded their menu to include several types of sandwiches.  We enjoyed their buffalo chicken sandwich the week after Thanksgiving, so today we decided to go back and try their porchetta sandwich.

We originally tried Eddie’s porchetta at the 2011 Vendy Awards, where they were a Rookie of the Year finalist.  At the Vendy’s, in addition to pizza, Eddie’s prepared a couple of new dishes, porchetta and sweet potato gnocchi.

Today’s Lunch is a porchetta sandwich ($9.50) from Eddie’s Pizza Truck.

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We got word from Derek of Eddie’s Pizza Truck telling us they are doing a FREE lunch promotion tomorrow (Thursday) with LevelUp.  You can get a free lunch of up to $10 in value.  All you have to do is to sign up for a free account with LevelUp.  The promotion is also being used to debut Eddie’s Pizza’s new loyalty program.

Click through for more details on this promotion, LevelUp, and info on Eddie’s new winter menu.

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