Gaztro-Wagon
This week’s schedule, Chicago, IL
Neighborhood: all over the city!
Gaztro-Wagon.
On their website, Gaztro-Wagon describes their food truck as “A curbside solution to your hunger” with “hand-crafted, modern street fare with a focus on seasonal availability and local partnerships.” If all of that and the recent food truck craze that has swept major cities isn’t enough to interest you in the Gaztro-Wagon, keep reading. Due to our obsession with The Great Food Truck Race on the Food Network and food trucks in general, Rob and I read on Twitter this past weekend that the Gaztro-Wagon was going to be in Lincoln Square on Friday evening. Although Chicago food trucks aren’t allowed to actually cook aboard their trucks, that hasn’t stopped a handful of enterprising chefs from stocking their trucks full of gourmet treats and roaming the streets of Chicago. We hightailed it to Lincoln Square and were pleased to find the Gaztro-Wagon near Lincoln and Montrose with plenty of menu items still left on-board. I ordered the corn beef reuben with warm cabbage slaw and provolone and Rob had the braised lamb with queso panela, apricots, walnuts, and peppers. Both sandwiches were wrapped in a pita, not on bread, which was a welcome twist to ordinary sandwich cuisine and also kept the contents tasting fresh and warm. We also shared a bag of plantain chips, which were crispy and had just the right amount of salt on them. For $18, it was an inexpensive meal and a unique dining experience. Be sure to check out the Gaztro-Wagon’s schedule and see if they’ll be in a neighborhood near you.
-Anna
Inside the Gaztro-Wagon.
Our plantain chips.
Rob’s braised lamb on the left and Anna’s reuben on the right.
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