best ATX food truck

[Kyrie Eleison 9312]

wife and i making a day  trip to ATX for some furniture and want to grab a good bite.  neither of us are eating inside a restaurant filled with you dirty fucking COVID hippies, so we're hoping for a decent rec for a food truck or the like.  

go...

[Austinvines 318]

Check this out. Commercial kitchens all located in a group. I hear good things but haven’t had any.

https://order.kitchenunited.com/austin?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=gmb

[Ollie Slatt 289]

The Line Hotel at Cesar Chavez and Congress has a Veracruz tacos on the Congress side.  Its a takeout window . . . so it essentially operates like a truck.  

Many of the good bbq places are trucks (including Leroy & Lewis, Kerlin, Mickelwait, and Browns).  

Also, plenty of sit down restaurants in Austin offer outdoor seating options.  

[Brisketexan 105477]

Drive down N. Lamar between Rundberg and 183.  Stop at any of the 100 taco trucks/trailers along the way.  Eat great tacos and be happy.

[HenryJames 66227]

Just get takeout from whatever restaurant you like.

[UTPhil2006 3821]

Valentinas BBQ

[RMac5 1551]

Agree on Valentina’s. The Tex-mex truck at Radio Coffee is damn good too. They have a full bar inside Radio Coffee as well as all the coffee options with tons of outdoor seating. Pretty cool setting with lots of distance between tables with the majority of the seating under the canopy of huge oak trees. The owners are distant family so I plug them when I can.

https://www.radiocoffeeandbeer.com/

 

Edited February 9, 2021 by RMac5

[South Austin 52657]

1 hour ago, UTPhil2006 said:

Valentinas BBQ

Dis write hear.

[AustinMT 952]

1 hour ago, UTPhil2006 said:

Valentinas BBQ

Love Valentina's, but does it really qualify as a "truck" any longer?

[Kyrie Eleison 9312]

Just get takeout from whatever restaurant you like.

not getting take out from Odd Duck...

[irishtexan 11530]

I'd look into whether or not restaurants you like have patios. Many do.

Valentina's is totally legit. It's far south, but it's exceptional and totally worth the drive down. There's also a fried chicken sandwich truck next door to Valentina's called Pollos las Abuelas that's awesome if you're looking to do a bang-bang.

Cuantos tacos serves super delicious mini street tacos.

Las Trancas also makes legit street tacos.

Mickelthwait Craft Meats made Texas Monthly's Top-10 bbq last time around. They're fucking awesome. Their house-made sausage program usually has some interesting options.

La Tunita 512 and El Sabor Tapatio are doing legit birria if you want to get on the birria bandwagon.

Leroy & Lewis is great BBQ and is in the Cosmic Coffee & Beer Garden so you can get a coffee drink or mocktail while you're there, as I think I remember you don't drink. If I'm mistaken or you're back to ragin like a cajun, you can get a beer or a cocktail or 10 shots of whiskey. There's also a pretty good mexican trailer called Pueblo Viejo in the same space.

I believe Via 313 has food trucks in Craft Pride on Rainey Street and in Star Bar on West 6th. 

Veracruz All-Natural as noted above is in the Radio Coffee location and they've got a great outdoor setup. I'd second that recommendation. But it gets absurdly jammed up on weekends around breakfast time.

 

[irishtexan 11530]

Oh, forgot about Discada, which also makes some really good mini street tacos. 

The tex mex scene in Austin is pretty shitty, but there are a shit ton of really, really good traditional taco trucks scattered throughout the city.

[Ghost of LL 15548]

For Mediterranean, I like Kebabalicious or Halal Bros. (both downtown).

For Thai, I really like My Thai Mom at 9th and Congress, though their opening times have been sporadic during the pandemic.  

[LonghornSean 4026]

On 2/9/2021 at 9:53 AM, Kyrie Eleison said:

wife and i making a day  trip to ATX for some furniture and want to grab a good bite.  neither of us are eating inside a restaurant filled with you dirty fucking COVID hippies, so we're hoping for a decent rec for a food truck or the like.  

go...

Veracruz

[CooterBrown 18038]

Paprika on Lamar in the Michi Ramen parking lot has great tacos. It doesn't open until 1pm usually.

[6th Street 6509]

Llama's for Peruvian - open late 

[Longhorn_Fan68 33901]

On 2/12/2021 at 1:48 PM, LonghornSean said:

Veracruz

went back after not having them for a few years. holy shit. I'm not sure how, but it seems to me their quality has gotten better. got a couple of the breakfast tacos, two pastor, two beef. they were all unbelievable. only complaint is they were too small. I wanted more!

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

Already mentioned above are my two favorite Austin BBQ joints, Valentina’s and L&L.

Boteco, Brazilian good, is quite solid (but I haven’t only been once but will be going back).

[Bolero88 277]

Winston's Kitchen is great, especially the Jerk chicken wings. I love Banthai, Brown's BBQ, Patrizi's, Bombay Dhaba, Lucky's Italian Sandwiches, El Primo, and Casita Nicole Antojitos as well. Lots of good food trucks in Austin. I probably eat at food trucks more than restaurants these days. 

[blacklab 11957]

[next2naus 439]

Bohemian BBQ

[RPM 26374]

11 hours ago, blacklab said:

[cafe society 2878]

Another vote for Valentina's.  Vera Cruz tacos also fabulous.

[Teamdirtyleg 1062]

Don Japanese Kitchen is pretty awesome.