food trucks!... If you ever watch the show "Eat St." on Food Network, you know how popular food trucks are becoming in North America. The craze hasn't quite hit Toronto yet, but more and more food trucks are starting to show up. On Friday, I was walking on Yonge towards Eaton Centre and just happened to pass by a caged lot full of Food Trucks. I recently went to Boston and had the chance to track down and taste many of their famous Food Trucks (Roxy's grilled cheese ftw!) and this was a nice surprise to see in T.O.. I think the event was called "Mini Food Truck Eats Pop Up" and the trucks were at the corner of Yonge and Gould (where Salad King was before) from 11am-2pm on that day. One of the food truck vendors mentioned that this is a one time event for now and that they are hoping to be invited back to same location. Considering the lot is right beside Ryerson, it could be an awesome permanent fixture for students and shoppers in the area.
There was a lineup of 5 trucks: Toasted Tangerine, Gorilla Cheese, El Gastrónomo Vagabundo, Caplanksy's, and Cupcake Diner. This type of Food Truck event doesn't seem to happen often in Toronto and the novelty of the trucks clearly drew a large crowd with many snapping pictures with their phones. Luckily, I arrived early as there were deep lineups of 20+ people bundled up for the cold weather by 12 pm. I tried the Toasted Ravioli ($6 taxes included) from "The Toasted Tangerine", pictured above . There were 4 large home made Raviolis stuffed with ricotta cheese, spinach, breaded, deep fried and served with marinara sauce. The raviolis were quite flavourful, crispy on the outside with hot ricotta cheese inside. The general pricing of these food trucks seemed to be around $6-$10 an item, not cheap, but the line ups speak for themselves. Check out the full listing of the food truck menus and prices here.
Side Note lol: One of these Food Truck owners must be making some nice cash as there was an awkwardly parked Porsche Boxster among the food trucks (See in above pic!).
shawarma... I haven't been updating much lately because I've been busy with school and also because I've just been lazy.haha, so hopefully that will change a little. I have school everyday around University and Dundas, so me and my classmate Henry have been grabbing lunch at places around the area. decided to go check out Taste of Mediterranean for shawarmas instead of getting subway (which many of us were eating for the first week or 2 of class lol). They sell shawarma sandwiches, platters, salads, roast chicken and pizza too.
We both went for the chicken shawarma sandwich (~$4.50 after tax) and they have the usual toppings (lettuce, tomatoes, pickled radishes, onions, hummus, etc). They also grill the shawarmas with a panini machine which I think always makes these wraps taste much better. The sandwich itself tasted pretty good and filled me up for lunch, although other places seem to be more generous with the chicken. One thing I didn't like was that they used some pre-carved chicken for our sandwiches. I prefer having the chicken freshly shaved off the giant spit so you know its hot and fresh. The place was also totally empty considering it was around noon and the area around University and Dundas is pretty busy.
I also noticed that they had a deal for a 7'' Halal Pizza for ~$3.00 which I will definitely have to try next time. There's so many places to get shawarmas around downtown Toronto, but this is right by my classes, so it works out.
Taste of Mediterranean 205 Dundas Street West Toronto, Ontario 416-850-3338
early as there were deep lineups of 20+ people bundled up for the cold weather by 12 pm. I tried the Toasted Ravioli ($6 taxes included) from "The Toasted Tangerine", pictured above . There were 4 large home made Raviolis stuffed with ricotta cheese, spinach, breaded, deep fried and served with marinara sauce. The raviolis were quite flavourful, crispy on the outside with hot ricotta cheese inside. The general pricing of these food trucks seemed to be around $6-$10 an item, not cheap, but the line ups speak for themselves. Check out the full listing of the food truck menus and prices here.
