Big Boss Food Truck Harvest
Last Thursday was the Food Truck Harvest at Big Boss Brewing Company. It was great to have a food truck gathering here in Raleigh. There was live music, a pumpkin carving contest, and of course, beer. I’m not a beer connoisseur but we had a Hell’s Belle and a Harvest Time Pumpkin Ale, I liked both, but Jad liked the Hell’s Belle better and I preferred the pumpkin ale.
Some highlights:
We had Kogi tacos, which were tasty, but I always wish they were bigger!
We split a burger from Only Burger (next time, we’re each getting our own. These are too good to share!). They didn’t have their special pimento cheese and fried green tomato burger that night, which we’ve been dying to try, but we asked for pimento cheese along with bacon and are so glad we did. This is one juicy burger and the pimento cheese is the perfect gooey accompaniment. Easily the best thing we ate all night.
We had a chicken Indian taco from the Indian food truck:
The flatbread on the outside was tasty and the chicken had some heat to it but the flavor was dominated by cumin. Don’t get me wrong, I love me some cumin, but the chicken’s flavor was too one-note.
We tried a slice of pan pizza from Klausie’s:
We got a pepperoni slice and were persuaded to add some red onion, because they were touted as “beautiful”. Maybe I’ve just become a New York style pizza kinda girl, because I just wasn’t won over by the pan pizza. It was cheesy and saucy and not very memorable. The red onion was almost raw and as is always the problem with toppings added after the fact, they weren’t integrated into the cheese and sauce.
The last truck we tried was Valentino’s.
Nothing on the menu really grabbed me but I do like a good pepperoni roll so we tried one of those. To be fair, at this point I was pretty full so that may very well have affected my enjoyment, but the roni roll was not memorable. I would try their meatball sub next time though, since another customer gave it the thumbs-up.
Could not have asked for more beautiful weather for being outside and food truckin’ it up. It was such a good time and I hope it is the first of many of such events.
