Tall colorful banners and bright national flags ripple in the breeze above a column of trucks as customers line up along the sidewalk. It looks like a fiesta on Long Wharf Drive. But it’s only lunch. …
Tag Archives: food trucks
State of the Carts
The last time Daily Nutmeg visited the food trucks at the corner of Prospect and Sachem Streets, in 2014, they were located in the parking lot at Ingalls Rink. But the times, they are a changin’, and the carts are …
Cookies ’n’ Dream
The aroma of fresh-baked cookies, brownies and other goodies envelops you as soon as you cross the threshold of Robin Schaffer’s Woodbridge home. Sweet scents of brown sugar and chocolate mingle,…
Tacos with a View
Today we’re revisiting a favorite from the archives. Below is an updated version of an article that appeared in one of Daily Nutmeg’s early editions, published on April 17, 2012. Enjoy!
There are 10 spots for 10…
Cart Blanche
Watching the lunch carts of Cedar Street roll in late-morning on a weekday is like attending a seminar on advanced teamwork. Vans pull up curbside with dented, well-worn carts in tow, which are dispatched mostly in teams of two. Some …
Lord of the Fries
One look at the cute angular cartons heaping with glistening, golden-brown “frites” (Belgian-style fries) or the Grilled Fluffernutter with Bacon sandwiches in the hands of blissful customers, and it’s clear that the motto on the side of the Fryborg food …
Burgers Flipped
A tall thin woman, wearing a white chef’s hat emblazoned with her nickname, beckons from a big white truck parked on York Street between Chapel and Elm.
She’s offering free samples of her delectable “Blazin’ Burgers with all the fixin’s.” …
Dairy Tale
The scientific principles that apply to the process of gently heating two pieces of bread coated in butter and filled with cheese seem so simplistic when compared to the emotional response that this process produces.
Glorious grilled cheese. Is it …
Tacos With A View
There are 12 spots for 12 trucks on two thin, unassuming strips of asphalt and splotchy grass on Long Wharf Drive, one in either direction after you take exit 46 off I-95 northbound. They’re easy to miss, tucked between New …
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