New York Street Food

Yesterday was the last day of the year for Bistro Truck, so I headed up to the Columbia Food Pod to get one last meal to hold me until 2012.  (Bistro Truck will be part of this week’s MasterCard free lunch giveaway on Thursday, but with a limited menu.)

I spoke with Yassir for a while yesterday about his plans, some of which I can tell you and some of which he asked me to keep confidential for now.

First, Yassir is going back to Morocco next week for a little while.  He will be looking for “inspiration” from the street vendors there, and will also be working on a couple of projects while in Morocco.  When Yassir returns, he will be fixing up the truck, revising the menu, and he has another surprise in store that I will tell you about when he is ready for it to be public.

After our conversation, I had chicken tajine for lunch ($10).

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I’ve been to Bistro Truck plenty of times, but never tried their lamb burger.  A couple of months ago, in order to stand out a bit from other food trucks serving burgers, Yassir switched from a beef burger to a lamb burger.

Lamb is generally more expensive than beef, but Today’s Lunch of a lamb burger from Bistro Truck was only $7.

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It’s been a while since I’ve been to Bistro Truck, one of my favorite food trucks and a 2010 Vendy Award Finalist.

What sent me down to ‘Da Nest (as Yassir calls his spot on 5th ave & 16th St) was the tweet yesterday with the Daily Specials.  In this case it said “grilled steak with creamy mushroom sauce”.

That sounded like a good choice for lunch ($10).

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Cake & Shake last year in Washington Square Park

If you read New York Street Food, you have probably heard about Cake & Shake, a cupcake and milkshake cart that had 2 carts, one in Washington Square Park and one outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  They closed the Wash Sq Park cart this year, but still have one outside the Met.

Now a new cart has appeared on West 53rd St & 6th Ave selling cupcakes and milkshakes under the name Cake vs. Shake, according to an article in DNAInfo.

“We have some imposters,” Derek Hunt, one of the owners of Cake & Shake told DNAInfo.  Hunt said he first realized something was off when he began receiving calls from customers asking if he’d moved.

Last week we told you about the free turkey burger giveaway from Bistro Truck and Jennie-O Turkey.  If you didn’t catch it then, Bistro Truck will be giving away at least 500 turkey burgers each day from today through Saturday, courtesy of Jennie-O.

Yesterday we were invited to a media preview, so now we can give you an idea of what to expect.  Click through for the 5 types of burgers Bistro Truck will be cooking up and giving away this week, and where you can get them.

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