In the late 1800s, based on the idea of portable supermarket, food trucks showed up in Texas, America. Being popular in America and Europe in the first place, it has become popular throughout the world. Let’s discover the food trucks of Turkey.
The food trucks first appeared by selling charcuterie but in time they turned into dining venues. Being integrated into crowded places such as parks, highways, motorway service areas, in front of construction sites, food trucks are evolved as nostalgic trucks or modern minibuses. Even a huge trailer truck is witnessed to evolve into a restaurant. The restaurants on wheels aiming to render high quality service with a minimum cost are selling fast food, coffee, ice cream and so forth.
Even if we are newly getting used to the modern appearance, we are familiar with these mobile restaurants thanks to the meatball sandwich sellers of Turkey. Within living the memory, the Turkish series “İkinci Bahar” broadcasted in the late 1990s. The character named ‘Chef Ali Haydar’ bought a minivan to sell meatball sandwiches after his restaurant is taken from him.
The food truck trend considered as a rapid growing concept of the food sector has been widely used by new generation coffee sellers in Turkey. They are commonly located in festivals, university campuses or the corner of a populated neighborhood.
Four wheeled coffee shops are popular
There are food trucks famous with their coffees in Istanbul, one of which is Ozo Coffee on The Road. With its orange VW beetle van, Ozo Coffee is touring around festivals, populated shopping malls and neighborhoods. What makes it unique and remarkable is its recycling approach. The restaurant plants coffee pulps in its plastic cups instead of throwing them to the bin. Speaking of coffee shops, Manivela Coffee Truck is worth praise as well. Showing up with the motto “The Best Coffee is in the Streets”, Manivela is one of the eldest members of food truck chain. At the weekends, it is integrated into events such as concerts and festivals while located in Maslak in the weekdays.
The food truck may pop up at festivals
The truck concept, which is rarely seen around has paved the way for a new food chain trend. Truck’n Roll is the pioneering brand of this chain. Truck’n Roll based in Bağdat Street has an aim to take gourmet fast food to the streets by serving the most snapped up ones. The truck may pop up at any festival. Truck’n Roll run by gastronomy and culinary arts academicians has a rich menu in which you can find hamburgers, snacks, Turkish and Mexican burritos. The restaurant offers a high-quality service with medium prices. The outstanding taste of the menu is named after the restaurant; “Truck’n Roll Hamburger”, a blending of special hamburger meatball with pastrami and fermented sausage.
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