New York Street Food

We wanted to let you know about another new food truck coming to our area, Molly’s Milk Truck.  Don’t worry Keith, it’s very different from your Milk Truck.

Molly’s Milk Truck was started by Hoda, who left the corporate world not because of the recession or being laid off, but because it was too stifling and unfulfilling.  Hoda hooked up with Jason to start Molly’s Milk Truck.

According to Hoda, the concept behind Molly’s is: New Age American – A Healthy Alternative to American Favorites.  Hoda told me that’s where the Milk part of the name comes from – something wholesome and American.  As for where Molly comes from, let’s just say they hope you’ll be ecstatic after eating their food.

Click through for when and where they expect to be on the street, as well as a draft version of their menu.

We  recently received word from The Taco Truck that the City of Hoboken drafted an ordinance that seems intended to drive food trucks out of town.  Athos from Two Pitas In A Pod told is it passed the Hoboken City Council last night on the first reading.

According the The Taco Truck, “It has become apparent to us that the City of Hoboken is doing its best to marginalize the food trucks and make it impossible for us to conduct business. We understand the need to put an ordinance in place that regulates the food trucks and mandates certain requirements that protect our customers, this is long overdue, but this ordinance goes well beyond that.”

The Taco Truck posted an even longer letter to their fans on facebook that explained the details of the ordinance that just passed.  In addition to fees in excess of $3,500 per year, food trucks would not be able to park within 75 feet of a brick and mortar restaurant, and could not park in Hoboken for more than 6 hours per day. That means food trucks could not park somewhere for lunch, then move and park somewhere else in Hoboken for dinner.

From what we have read over the past year or two, it’s not too hard to figure out a plan where restaurants and food trucks can peacefully coexist.  It happened this year in Seattle, Cleveland, and a bunch of other places.  All you need are politicians who aren’t in the pocket of local restaurateurs and landlords.

Click through for the full text of The Taco Truck’s letter.

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New Jersey is about to get a little sweeter!

The Le Petit Temptation dessert truck is ready to roll back into Jersey City tomorrow.  They will be at the Creative Grove Market next to the PATH exit on Fridays, and by Hamilton Park on Saturdays.

Le Petit Temptation is a modern French patisserie that we have written about in the past.  We tried them at the 2010 NYC Food Film Festival Drive-In, and have kept in touch with the owner Jessie ever since.

Jessie was selling his line of pastries at the Liberty Towers gourmet shop on Hudson St in Jersey City and at the Greene-Ville Gardens store in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, but we’re not sure if that is still the case.

So what can you expect from Le Petit Temptation?

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The last new food truck I tried at the All About Downtown Festival in Jersey City last weekend was Mamma Marci’s.  Both Home By The Range and Lucinda Creperie were excellent.  How would Mamma Marci’s stack up?

First I perused the menu, which you can see here.  I’ve heard that Mamma Marci’s meatball sandwich ($7) is good, but I decided to go for the Italian hot dog ($7) instead.

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One of the new food trucks I tried at the All About Downtown Festival in Jersey City over the weekend was Home By The Range.  Their tagline is Locally Inspired Street Food, which sounded promising.

Home By The Range makes local, fresh organic sandwiches and side dishes.  Their menu is driven by what’s available, so it’s not extensive.  Everything on the menu looked good, so I asked for two half sandwiches – 1/2 a New Jersey Cow and 1/2 a New Porker.  You can see that day’s menu here, although it changes based on what’s in season.

(clockwise from top left) Jersey Cow, New Porker, chicken confit, potato salad, heirloom tomato & corn salad

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