"I first got to try the Alley Burger food truck at the Barista competition at Fratello Coffee.\n\nNeedless to say, the burger was fantastic. Full of flavour, and completely satisfying.\n\nI also like the look of the truck and there are a lot of options for what you can get.\n\n... maybe TOO many options!\n\nEssentially you have (more or less) 2 choices of burger: their classic \"Alley Burger\" (a pork patty with cheese curds and a piri piri aioli), or an angus beef burger (1 patty or 2) with a wide range of toppings (some requiring a $1 upgrade per topping), chosen by you!\n\nI really like that you can customize your burger (I opted for a single burger with curds, bacon, piri piri, jalapenos and onions) but I'm not sure that all this variety is ideal for a food truck.\n\nDon't get me wrong, I have full faith in the well-skilled staff running the truck, but I can only imagine that all these customizations may slow the service down a little.\nIn fact, I ended up waiting probably over 2 hours to get through the long line of burger-hungry gastronomes. Now granted, this was (I think) Alley Burger's first venture out, and this city has been chomping at the bit for some Alley Burger action! So I don't anticipate lines like that in normal situations.\n\nI would think that if there were rotating burger \"specialties\" on the menu, with pre-selected ingredients, this would make people's choices faster and the \"kitchen\" more efficient. But what do I know?\n\nThe only other suggestion I would have for improvement is to have tax-included, rounded-out prices. My total ended up being $13.06 (luckily I had some coins!), but you could see they were starting to struggle for change. \nMy recommendation is that instead of a burger being $7.99, then charging tax, list it as $8 on the menu and report it at a cost of $7.62 with tax of $0.38.\n\nThe fries, as always, were delicious and it is amazing the amount of poutine you can get for $7 or so. A unique element is that you can also \"season\" your own fries with a variety of \"shakers\" alongside the truck: smokey bacon & cheddar, truffled salt & pepper, chipotle bite, etc.\n\nAll in all, I am so excited that Alley Burger is going to be regularly hitting the streets. The quality of food did not at all disappoint and I am sure I will be tracking it down quite often."^^ . "7"^^ . . . "1"^^ . . "2011-08-10T00:00:00"^^ . "4"^^ . "4"^^ .