New York Street Food

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A couple of months ago we told you about Shorty’s, a Philly-centric sports bar with two locations here in NYC that was opening a food truck.  This weekend was their soft opening, and they hope to be on the street regularly in about a week.

We had a chance to stop by the Union Square area on Saturday, their first day out, and as always with a new truck, we asked for their recommendation.  The owner, Evan Stein, suggested a Roast Pork Special, which has homemade broccoli rabe and sharp provolone and cost $11.

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If you read our Mobile Munchies post this morning, you will have known that Our Heros was making a rare foray into midtown from their usual spot in the Financial District.  Looks like it might not be so rare.

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There’s a fairly new food truck downtown called Our Heros.  They have been around since late December, and we visited them once before, enjoying an Italian cold cut hero.

They have a selection of hot and cold heros, salads and soup, with the food made fresh every day.  Nothing here is sitting in the walk-in overnight, like some delis.

The roast beef hero caught our eye, and it cost $9.

I know that $9 is not cheap for a hero, but you do get a lot of bang for the buck.  On a base of fresh, rare roast beef were long blocks of cheddar cheese, sliced cherry tomatoes, arugula, red onions and horseradish aioli.

Even with all the fillings, the taste of the roast beef and cheddar came through nicely, as did the horseradish aioli.  All the ingredients on this sandwich worked together beautifully, and the hero bread held everything together through the last bite.

This was a big, filling hero for lunch.  As I said, $9 is not cheap, but it’s about what you would pay for a top-notch roast beef hero at a good deli, after tax.

You can find Our Heros on Wall St by Water St every weekday.  They tried other neighborhoods at first, but kept getting chased by the police.  The daily specials are still tweeted out, but they are very happy at Wall & Water, and have no plans to leave.

You can follow Our Heros on twitter here, and they are also included in our Mobile Munchies twitter feed and listed in the NYSF directory.

Have you tried Our Heros?  Let us know what you think.

I bet you didn’t know we had the World’s Best Sandwich Truck (WBST) right here in NYC!  (At least, that’s what the side of the truck says.)

The WBST does not travel around the city, it parks in the same place every day – 20th St between Broadway and Park Ave.  They are basically a deli on wheels, with assorted hot and cold sandwiches, but they use Boar’s Head meat and are priced below most delis.  They also have specialty sandwich combinations, which is what I usually get.

I never tried the Scarface, which cost $5.75, so that was my choice for lunch.

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On Tuesday we alerted you to a new food truck downtown called Our Heros, and posted a photo of their menu the owner sent us.  It caused a little bit of a controversy because the heros were $9, which people thought was too high.

One of the reasons people like food trucks (and restaurants don’t) is because they are supposed to be cheaper than brick and mortar restaurants without the fixed overhead of rent.  Gas isn’t cheap, but it’s a lot less than NYC rent.

Yesterday Our Heros contacted us and said they sent us the “wrong menu”, and that all heros were $7, not $9.

Since they are a new food truck that we wanted to try out anyway, we headed downtown yesterday for a NYSF First Look at Our Heros.  This was the most patriotic food truck we’ve ever seen, but more on that later.

For our first meal, we went for The Combo ($7).  We’ve always liked Italian cold cut heros, and this one was a nice size, coming in at over 9 inches long.

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