Durham has an impressive food truck scene.
Gourmet
burgers made with beef from Cliff’s Meat Market in Carrboro, NC. Twists on the
thin-sliced Korean barbecue. Delicious Detroit-style deep-dish pizza. Homemade
pop tarts and pastries.
Sausages made from humanely raised
North Carolina pigs. Pimento-cheese brat and Italian sausages. ALL from food trucks.
Durham Central Park recently hosted a Food Truck
Rodeo in which 25 food trucks represented Durham’s finest rolling restaurants. It still blows my mind to see that so many varieties of food,
and good food mind you, can come from trucks
Truck
operators build relationships with local universities, businesses, music venues,
and craft breweries. They make arrangements to serve on various days and nights
throughout the week and love is often shown from the venues by touting what trucks that
will be at their location. Some locations even go as far as installing
electrical support so that trucks will not have to use noisy generators.
It is nice to know that the food trucks out number
the fast food restaurants in Downtown Durham. And given the chance, I would
choose a local offering served from four wheels over a Big Mac or a $5 footlong
ANY day of the week. Welcome to Durham.
