Austin airstream trailer food

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Excellent place for sales and service. Fair prices and a great quality product line. Bought a camper shell and cargo glide from them. The camper back window had a small adjustment needed. They jumped on it as soon as I brought it in. Oltorf, Monday-Friday, 11ampm; Saturday, 11ammid www. Almost hidden in a hippie-revivalist compound on Oltorf across from Office Depot, the restaurant consists of two state-of-the-art mobile-kitchen trailers and a covered-deck outdoor dining room.

Since it opened last year, DaVine has tightened up its menu and expanded its hours. The crusts are made with sprouted, low-gluten spelt flour. During SXSW, DaVine anticipates keeping later-than-usual hours, and my guess is the entire compound will be overflowing with hippies, hipsters, and music.

We can't say what has sparked this nationwide obsession with cupcakes; maybe it's the single-serving size that prohibits overindulgence.

Perhaps it's the whimsy of a cake you can eat on the run with your fingers. Each of us has our own reason, and it seems that each of us loves us some cupcake. The city is lousy with great bakeries that offer delicious versions of the taste treat, and some of the yummiest options can be found being peddled out of a silver airstream trailer on South Congress. The Hey Cupcake! The cake varieties are vanilla, chocolate, red velvet, and carrot, with topping choices of vanilla buttercream, chocolate buttercream, and cream cheese for the red-velvet and carrot-cake options.

We're vanilla fiends ourselves and partial to the strictly Vanilla Dream combo, but the chocoholics in our lives prefer the double dose, while many consider the red velvet the tops. Whatever flavor you choose, be sure to do the free "whipper snapper" upgrade: a shot of fresh whipped cream shot right into the cake. At two bucks a pop, it's an ideal indulgence in the spoils of war for your avenue stroll.

Lamar, daily, pm Photo by John Anderson Like many delightful discoveries, this one was made by word of mouth. Friends in the Barton Hills neighborhood raved enthusiastically about their pizza source housed in a trailer in a far corner of a gas station. It was when we had an occasion to sample a slice at a teen gathering that we gained an appreciation for the pie and made it our business to patronize them ourselves.

The location couldn't be less promising: The trailer isn't a retro-sleek airstream or gaily decorated bodega. It's tucked into the corner of a gas station at the far-from-picturesque and busy corner of Barton Skyway and South Lamar. A couple of stools provide a perch while you wait for your pie's or pasta's preparation.

To minimize wait time, orders may be called in for pick up. What the business lacks in style it makes up for in substance. Sitting atop a crisp, almost crackerlike crust, the tasty sauce was robust and thick.

We topped it with fresh spinach, mushrooms, garlic, black olives, and red onions. Absolutely delicious! Despite the cold night, a steady stream of customers huddled around the fragrant trailer or sat in their idling cars, patiently waiting for the steaming pie to whisk home and take the chill out of the night.

On more temperate evenings, the crowd can be thick with expectant and hungry diners. Word of mouth has spread in the Hills anyway; it's worth the journey south for those out of immediate range. Riverside, Restaurant: Daily, 8ampm. Trailer: Sunday-Tuesday, pm-1am; Wednesday-Friday: pm-3am; Saturday: pmam Rosita's is a small, family-run restaurant quasi-hidden in the strip center with the bingo parlor on East Riverside at Royal Crest, about half a mile east of I Depending on when you go by, their Al Pastor taco trailer that sits in the parking lot out by the street might be open; operating in the evening, it serves well into the late night.

Not to worry, both venues serve the same excellent food. The restaurant is concealed behind silver reflective window coverings, but when you get inside, you find a clean little spot with a rousing Mexican jukebox and a big-screen TV for telenovelas and Latino music videos. There's usually someone on staff who speaks English, but if not, point at the menu and nod. At both locations you'll see someone rolling out homemade flour tortillas, the best in town. A shawarma-style trompo vertical grill is visible in the restaurant kitchen but not inside the trailer; they must reheat the trompo-grilled al pastor in the trailer.

Look at the back page of the menu for the al pastor menu, their specialty. After quitting his job as a consultant at IBM, DeGeest went back to Belgium to learn from master waffle-makers and perfect his own recipes. Thomas Odermatt, the son of a Swiss butcher, moved to California in to study organic farming. But the silver trailer still has a cult following, thanks to its edgy, frequently updated menu, which features an eclectic assortment of dishes like poutine, Thai red curry soup and hazelnut-crusted chicken.

Skillet owners Joshua Henderson, a former private chef, and Danny Sizemore, a kitchen equipment salesman, have already purchased two more trailers, and an additional takeout restaurant is in the works. People sometimes mistake DessertTruck for a Mister Softee—like ice cream vendor—until they get close enough to read the menu listing items like salted molten chocolate cake , caramelized banana sandwiches and pumpkin custard.

Austin is the capital of truck food, with dozens of mobile restaurants, most of them specializing in tacos.