Frites at the Art Institute

The little park by the Art Institute at Monroe and Michigan was a perfect spot for delights from the Bruges Brothers truck.

Unworldly tamales

What else would you say about offerings from Tamale Spaceship?  Here's a blog first, a video.   This shows the mid-day seen at the Daley Plaza food truck fest.

Daley Place food truck fest

The spaceship

Home in Ithaca, or Bruges

We recognize that it is a slight stretch to draw a parallel between our quest of that and Odysseus' return home at the end of the Trojan War. That said, we seem to have found our Ithaca, the Bruges Brothers truck with its loaded cones of delight.   Without the perils that faced Odysseus on his return home, I must hasten to add.  Unless it is the calories.

The Brothers came to Columbus Avenue on Oct. 12 -- Food Truck Thursday -- and we were of course there too.   Eric had the Papas Bravas and Kathryn the Braised Oxtail.

Bruges Brothers, Croque Mesdames at the Daley Plaza

The Bruges Brothers food truck was one of more than a dozen purveyors of culinary wonders but once again, we had eyes only for the Brothers.  And the Croque Madame cone: 

"Griddled Ham Off the Bone,  Swiss Fondue, a dash of Dijonnaise, topped with (BAM!) a Sunnyside Egg and a some buttered breadcrumbs."

Maybe we need to rethink the odyssey part of this thing, if we have become fixated on a single truck.

Daley Plaza on a grey day, with trucks

A perfectly good truck, with a long line of patrons

Bruges Brothers

 

That's some competition in the background

Close-up of a delectable Madame

Bop! Rice bowls at our door step

Here's a great mission statement, from the Bob Bar Korean Food Truck's Facebook page: 

"We provide healthy Korean gourmet cuisine right to your door step."   We tucked into rice bowls last Thursday.  A welcome return visit.

As promised - at our door stop (upper Columbus)

Rice and beef

Spicy pork

 

Bop Bar Korean Food Truck on social media:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BopBarTruck
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BopBarTruck
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bopbartruck/

Cheesie's, at last

Where's the beef?  Something a little daunting about a cheese sandwich for lunch but we finally sampled Cheesie's.



The Frenchie.  American cheese, mozzarella cheese, cheddar cheese sauce, classic thick cut french fries, bacon and chives on sour dough bread.

Fries are inside the sandwich, of course.

La Cocinita AND Fat Shallot

Split loyalties on upper Columbus St. between a rice box from La Cocinita and a fat sandwich with cheesy fries from Fat Shallot.