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| - The Chrome Toaster, recently resurrected, held it's official grand re-opening party outside of World of Beer last week. I saw the big silver bus parked on South Blvd on my way home and it piqued my curiosity. I have a huge soft spot (found in my midsection) for food trucks and I had yet to sample the Chrome Toasters fare. I hurried home and convinced KC with much arm-twisting to go grab a bite and a beer. Ok, he didn't need much convincing... I mean come on, food truck fare + beer = awesome evening. Or so I thought...
We approached the Chrome Toaster and saw that they no longer had their menu written on glass by the door, but on a small lcd screen in the same location. I tried to, like an idiot, scroll the menu down, as some of the descriptions were cut off. It is not a touchscreen... I looked stupid trying. They should do something to fit the entire menu on the screen and save people like me from assuming it was a touchscreen. So, I never got to see what the descriptions or prices for the Yukon potatoes, tarro root chips (No, that isn't a typo. That's how they spelled taro on their menu.) and Mexican street corn. Their street sandwich section of the menu had six choices but none of them were the ever so popular Philly sandwich, that previous reviewers raved about. I was disappointed to see that it was missing. A girl popped her out of the bus doors to take our order. I asked her if they were doing the Philly anymore and she said they do but it is on the "secret menu." Ooh... secret menu... I felt cool. So, I asked her what else was on this secret menu. She bluntly stated, "Well I can't tell you." Umm... So I asked her how I was supposed to find out what is on the menu if she couldn't tell me. To which she had no intelligible response. Muttering something about how she didn't even really know what was on this oh-so-top-secret menu. Whatever. That kind of annoyed me. And made me wonder what other delectable items I was missing out on.
So, we ordered a Philly sandwich, Mexican street corn, and Yukon potatoes. Our food took forever. We waited... and waited... and waited some more. In that time, you could see how inefficient their ordering and delivering process was. The girl taking orders was also the "waitress." She had to run orders into World of Beer with only a name to track down the owners. WOB was hosting trivia that night so it wasn't particularly quiet. She would disappear for a while, and return to find a line of confused looking customers that would be ready to order. Poor thing also didn't have a tray, so she could only take what she could carry. If you guys are reading this, invest in a tray. Most of the time, food trucks operate with the assumption that their customers, after ordering, will linger around and wait for their food. Well, I can't blame people for taking a seat and getting some beer, because the food wasn't coming out a particularly snappy rate. Yes, I realize it was their first day back in a while but this wasn't their first time at the rodeo! They had been a fully operating food truck in the past.
Ok, so the food... Meh sums it up really well. The corn was half burnt, cold, and the kernels were shriveled up from being overcooked. I've had epic legit, elote (Mexican street corn) and this was a far cry from it. The Yukon gold potatoes, while hot enough to burn your tastebuds, left a lot to be desired. They were not discernibly seasoned and the texture left something to be desired. The Philly was ok. The meat was piping hot and the bun was very fresh but this sandwich also left something to be desired. The meat was nice and tender though.
Overall, Chrome Toaster was really meh. I hope they fair better this time than the last but, unless they step up their game, I really don't know how long they will last.
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