New York Street Food

We recently stopped by Palenque to drop off some food truck calendars, where they are the featured food truck for the month for May 2013. How can we visit Palenque without getting lunch? We can’t, so come along with us on the ride.

In past visits, we’ve concentrated on beef arepas, so to try something new, we went with the chicken arepa lunch special. The lunch special is either beef or chicken on a corn arepa, mashed red beans, hogao, and the regular toppings for $9.

By the way, if you’re a vegetarian, there are a number of good options at Palenque. The menu includes portobello mushrooms, seitan and 2 different types of vegetarian chorizo.

Oh yeah, we got dessert too. We weren’t sure what arequipe con queso was, but it cost only $2 and was listed on the menu under Sweets. Dessert turned out to be a wonderful surprise.

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One of the more interesting new food trucks to come out last fall was Palenque.  They took off a couple of months during the winter, and returned to the NYC streets last week.

Palenque serves homemade Colombian food, with the main dish being arepas – but these might not the arepas you expect.   I’m familiar with Venezuelan-style arepas, which are in the sandwich family.  Colombian-style arepas are more like pizzas – open-faced with toppings (protein, cheese, arugula, sauces).

Palenque’s menu has 4 different types of arepa bases and 9 different types of toppings, including several vegan options.  I ordered beef arepas on the traditional corn base, which cost $8.

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After having a First Look at the Palenque truck last week for dinner, we stopped by for lunch in midtown to get a good look in daylight.  Now you can see just how nice the truck is.

We enjoyed dinner from Palenque, but there were still some dishes we didn’t get to try last week.

For Today’s Lunch, I had beef arepas ($8) and a cheese empanada ($3), while my friend had cheese arepas ($5).

beef arepas

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When I was walking home through the Village last night, there was a group of about 10 NYU students around a new food truck on Washington Square South that I had never seen before called Palenque.  The sign on the side of the truck said Home Made Colombian Food, with paintings of macaws.

The woman at the window named “nena” told me they have been around for about a month, and they have been trying different areas for lunch and dinner to see what works best.

The menu was mainly arepas, but there were 4 different types of arepa bases, and about 8 different types of toppings.  I had to bring home dinner for 3, so we all got to try a few different things, including dessert.

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