Roadfood.com needs to expand and have more "gourmet" food truck content...

the gourmet Hi-V trucks are getting a lot of power behind them still, and this site is large enough with traffic to get more publicity out there on the foodie craze. can we add a forum for those trucsk on here? we have for the mobile food hot dog carts, but those are going to be a thing of the past as the foundations for concept foods is rolling and it doesnt appear to be a end in sight.
 
my suggestion:
 
Forum for Food Trucks
Categories throughout the site for Food Trucks, listings, submissions, "yelp" style of reviews
Food Truck Maps, like www.truxmap.com or www.grubtruck.com, maybe adding a page with a template forwarding people to those maps on load...
 
those are just a few ideas for here. hope they get considered. i dont know if its been suggested yet either, if it has my bad ;)

Hi-V trucks? what are those?
hot dog carts a thing of the past? not in my lifetime pal.
concept foods? what the hell is that?
 I may be getting old & the young have their own ideas like  we all did but please don't take over untill I die.
 until then ,leave it on the left coast.

I'm with sk bob.

But, but...there's a show on the Food Network (I think...I don't watch either the show or the channel) about food trucks!  They're the wave of the future!  No one is going to go to a hot dog or pretzel stand any more, they're going to go to these "new" glorified construction site meal trucks!  They serve gourmet food from a truck!

If I want "Gourmet Food",  I  prefer to sit down in  a restaurant to eat.

Don't know about gourmet food but food carts are the new thing here in Portland. Roadfooder Ed sails and i spent yesterday exploring a variety of food cart sites and the food was interesting and diverse. Food carts are an important part of the food scene here for good or ill.

Aw, I dunno. While it might not merit a separate section, good food is good food. If the best food in an area is from a truck, I want to know about it.

I tend to look at it as I did the cupcrake craze a couple of years ago.  This week it's food trucks, which are different from carts and not quite the ones you see at carnivals.  I'm sure there is good food to be had from some of them.  I just have a hard time calling something "gourmet" that I buy from a running vehicle and eat while walking.

If the recession continues we will be lucky to have hot dogs to eat.  Gourmet food should be, as Graymo said, treated as gourmet---eaten with a knife and fork while seated at a table with a table cloth and linen napkins. 
 
Trucks are a convenience for convenience food----coffee &, dogs, etc------
Eating "gourmet" food while standing next to a truck is crazy.
I prefer going to a restaurant where the owner pays rent, pays taxes and pays the help. 
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just what I want to do, eat a gourmet something for $10 while standing on the side walk with all your gourmet toppings falling out for the pigeons, & a $3 coke.
yeah,sign me up for that.

I'm not disagreeing but I think it would more qualify as ethnic food rather than gourmet.
 
I wonder how they did Monday in the 116º heat.
 
These trucks may be on the road, but you have to find them.  I don't think that qualifies as roadfood?

no disrespect to you to you on the left coast mar52.

Thanks, Bob.  I didn't take it that way.

mar52


I'm not disagreeing but I think it would more qualify as ethnic food rather than gourmet.

I wonder how they did Monday in the 116º heat.

These trucks may be on the road, but you have to find them.  I don't think that qualifies as roadfood?

you can find maps online that post their locations. www.truxmap.com www.roadstoves.com has a application for iphone and android. there are a few apps for phones and websites showing map locations of trucks.

I consider the 'Truck' food area to be just another media focused subset of the quickie lunch bunch menu-set. It is not "just a passing phase", but it sure doesn't warrant much attention from the traveling public IMHO.  I think the foodie-freaks at the Food Network and other media-focus groups grasp at "new" areas to promote for their own self-serving business, and create a marketbase for their 'inventions'.
 
The trucks, and the carts, do meet the needs of a certain market share of the eating public, but they are 'NOT' the "Future of the Restaurant Industry" as the Media is claiming them to be ! (again, I M H O )

There are alot of great food trucks out there serving some pretty good, original stuff. I wish one would park right in my neighborhood every Wednesday night. I always said in the off season Ice Cream Trucks could be converted into Coffee, Hot Chocolate and Doughnut Trucks. Columbus has a few Taco and Speciality Trucks....Russ