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| - Food trucks are not something I've been excited about since I was a child, their inherent novelty arresting my attention more than anything during my wonder days. It's been said that food trucks have the potential to ruin an area's restaurant culture, but based on my experience with PGH Taco Truck, an argument can be made that they can only enrich it.
PGH Taco Truck is regularly stationed in front of Lawrenceville's Espresso A Mano 1-2 days a week, meaning it's often parked just a few blocks from where I work. After much procrastinating, I realized what a prime opportunity I had to sample what these folks are peddlin' and took a walk down on my lunch break.
As I've said before, authenticity means little to me, and the people driving this truck seem to feel the same way. When General Tso's Chicken tacos are on a menu along with vegan options filled with curried potatoes, tradition and cultural accuracy become immaterial.
I decided to try the Local Ground Beef and Baja Fish tacos and was impressed in spite of myself.
"Heh. Hipster tacos," I recall muttering under my breath when I first caught sight of that red and yellow chuckwagon months before.
Yet, all of that pshawing was tossed under the wheels of a Volvo once I tasted that savorous, fatty, seasoned minced chuck as it intermingled with the zesty cheddar jack and tropical salsa, all of it bound in a doubled-up flour tortilla that had a delicate texture and a flavor not unlike injera, that staple of Ethiopian cuisine.
The fish taco was amply stuffed with hefty chunks of juicy cod, crema, cilantro, shredded cabbage, and lime, turning into a light lunch salad in a wrap. The crema/cilantro/lime combination became quite the tangy ranch dressing in this scenario with the cabbage adding a welcome crunch.
At $4 a taco, some may balk at PGH's prices, particularly when the same kind of portable delicacies can be had at any Las Palmas Carniceria in the metropolitan area for exactly half as much, but you won't get them with the same sense of fun, adventure, and culinary flair as you will on the highways and byways of the 'Burgh, even if Las Palmas makes mighty good ones their own flamin' selves. Track 'em down on that there Twitter and Facebook, and make good, practical use of your narcissistic social media websites. PGH's tacos may or may not be "real" tacos, but they are real damn good, and that's what matters most.
P.S. PGH Taco Truck would do well to park near some concert venues.
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