New Street-Food Carts
Marination, Maximus Minimus, TakoTruk…oh my
Posted by: Kathryn Robinson on Jun 16, 2009 at 10:00AM
9 Comments
End of May saw the debut of TakoTruk, the new mobile taco stop out in front of the 14-Carrot Cafe and the Zoo, at Eastlake and Lynn. Open Thurs-Sat, 6pmish to midnightish. (Follow their tweets and you’ll know closing time for sure.)
A few weeks later came Maximus Minimus, the latest enterprise from the good folks at Beechers Cheese and Bennett’s Pure Food Bistro. We don’t know everything, but feel pretty darned confident describing it as the only pig-shaped trailer in town. Second and Pike daily. Pulled-pork sandwiches.
(Good ones! Went yesterday. Drippy. Like, don’t-ride-the-bus-with-one drippy. Featuring either sweetened meat or fiery—the minimus, the maximus—with a heap of divine cole slaw, should you desire. And faaaaaast…way faster than Skillet.)
Finally, tomorrow—Wednesday, June 17—brings the promised debut of Marination Mobile, the truck serving Hawaiian/Korean street food, often out of a tortilla. How’s that for fusion. They’ll be open every day of the week, SoDo to Ballard, per a schedule they’ll post and tweet.
Tomorrow it’s Fremont, Soundspeed Scooters, 11am to 2pm. Better check their site first, though; permitting snafus and the like have already delayed launch of this much-anticipated player.
Tags: Seattle Restaurant Openings, Street Food, Seattle Food Trucks, Marination Mobile, Maximus Minimus, Tako Truk
ExCUUUUUUSE me? What’s with the dig on Skillet’s less-than-fast service? It ain’t fast food, folks…everything is made to order, which is why it tastes so good.
No debate with you on that one, JoJo…fast is one thing, good very often another. But Maximus Minimus, dealing as it does with just one kind of food, has the luxury of being able to get their product into their customers mouths with a miminus of waiting.
So then, it appears comparing the speed of service between Skillet and Maximus is like comparing a bottle of Two Buck Chuck to a 1997 bottle of Opus One…just a bad comparison.
Well put, Larry. (Though I’ve been known to knock back my share of Chuck…)
MM looks amazing…
Really…it is.
I think the speed comparison is completely fair….the difference is that we’re talking about the speed of the service, not whether the food/cooking/prep was rushed or not. MaxMin is just…well, efficient – from the ordering to the paying to the receiving to the accesorizing, everything moved along with very little dawdling or mosey-ing on the part of the staff. Skillet is great food, but some days I get the impression that the handlers are taking their good ‘ole sweet time getting orders to the cooks – and then the food back to us. Fair enough, Skillet is made to order and cooking it takes as long as it takes – but it’s the time before and after it’s being cooked that could really stand for some organization.
Had my first MM experience today. Love the veggie sandwich with spicy sauce. I’m going back for the pork sandwich tomorrow.
I think you’ll like the pork better.