Trailer Food is okay in ATX!

  When I was a prosecutor in Houston, one of my duties was to address food trailers within the city limits of Houston. What I really meant to say was that I went after mobile food trailers for city code and health code violations.  At the time, the Mayor was really going after these mobile food trailers for probable political reasons.  Here in ATX they're everywhere and I love them!  And most importantly, no body is trying to shut them down.

   We're not talking about your simple taco truck or hot-dog cart.  This stuff is high rent food.  Places that have Asian/Mexican fusion, Thai/Cajun mix, vegetarian, everything you can think of.  We even found great beignets about 500 miles west of Cafe Du Monde.  Here is a link to the ones around the city.  http://austinfoodcarts.com/

   One of the ones I recommend is called A Touch of Fire.  It is a Thai and Asian place on Barton Springs Blvd close to Auditorium Shores.  I ordered the Pad Thai Chicken and it was really good. My friend Oscar, of http://atxfoodreview.wordpress.com/ ate Osmo's a Cajun/Italian place. 

    This past weekend, my wife Sandi, Robert http://robert-cycling.blogspot.com/, and two other non-blogging friends went to the http://www.gypsypicnic.com/ at Auditorium Shores to see what good trailer food we could find. This was the first annual trailer food festival.  There was thirty plus food trailers.  We went about 3:30 pm thinking we'd find few people in lines considering it was way past lunch-time.  WRONG!  Rumor has it that the organizers planned on 7000 people but got 20,000.00 +.  By the time we got there trailers had run out of food.  Lines were going everywhere.  I'd find what appeared to be the end of a line and asked that person which trailer this lined belonged to and every time it was a trailer way off in another direction.  Lines wrapped around other lines.  The average wait time in was estimated to be one hour.  It was a sea of people...hungry people. Next year they should move this sucker to Zilker park, which makes for more room and maybe more trailers.  We waited in line for about 45 minutes for what we think was Kate's (southern/Louisiana cook'n).  Can't tell you how it was because we left. We still had what appeared to be another hour to wait in line.  Could no longer wait and had to eat.  Hahahaha!  Next year!!

    Food Trailer Gods, please forgive me for my past sins.  I love food trailers now.