The Re-Up BBQ

The pulled pork sandwich felt like I was back on Beale st in Memphis. Sooo good!!! The pecan pie is amazing too!!!

LOVE the pulled pork sandwich here. It’s so tender, flavourful, juicy… mmm just thinking about it makes me want to eat one again. Paired up with their coleslaw and sweet tea… I’m normally not a huge fan of burgers/​fast food but THIS is gourmet fast food so you should all definitely absolutely try it out or else you’re missing out on something huge in your foodie life.

*21/​30*
I discovered Re-​Up at the Roundhouse Street Food Carnival today. It was the smallest (and least decorated) little cart there, but I put my trust in fellow Unilocalers and decided to give it a try. Well I’m happy I made that choice… yeah, it was so tasty that I felt compelled to write about it as soon as I got home. My boyfriend got the pulled pork, I went for the beef brisket.
The buns: amazing — soft, fluffy and just the right size.
The sauce: had the perfect amount of zing without being spicy, and not too sweet either (aside: you can also buy it bottled to take home).
The meat: fall-​apart, rich and flavourful. The pork definitely wins by a MAJOR landslide. I did like the beef, but there wasn’t enough sauce piled onto it and it got a little dry towards the end.
The toppings: limited to coleslaw, which was admittedly good, but there definitely should have been more of that stuff in there. I like a nice balanced sandwich.
Just a bit sauce and a bit more cabbage would have won me over to give ‘em 5*.

Just tried Re-​Up BBQ for the first time. WOW… what a delicious sandwich from a street cart.
The bun is very fresh… but that is just the start. The pulled pork is to die for. It’s soft, but so delicious with their special BBQ sauce. And, at $ 7 a great deal.
Totally recommend this sandwich and will be back again!

I am truly lucky to live in such a killer neighborhood of Vancouver. Right between Main street and Commercial Drive in Mount Pleasant. I am literally stumbling distance from The Biltmore. A hip little bar that hosts live bands and sassy burlesque. A truly divine combination of hippie and hipster Vancouver.
I was recently introduced to another local gem, The Re-​Up BBQ. A sleek silver food cart that is parked outside of the Biltmore on Saturday nights. Street food is often under appreciated and misunderstood. The days of plain boring hot dog stands with tasteless options are behind us. Bring on the gourmet and the mouthwatering!
On that note I present to you Re-​Up BBQ. They have brought a southern summer classic to the streets of Vancouver.
I enjoyed my first Re-​Up Pulled Pork BBQ Sandwich at 2:30am on a Saturday night after attending a disco themed birthday party. It was by far the perfect way to finish off a night of gallivanting. The juicy pulled pork is braised and slow roasted for 10 hours before it even hits the cart. Paired with a crisp coleslaw in a fresh Portuguese bun and topped off with their signature (never gonna get the recipe… ever) home made BBQ sauce. The combination of flavors is marvelous and Re-​Up has created a simple yet divine street eat. Their Sweet tea tastes like the traditional iced tea left in the sun in the summertime to steep. Perfectly sweet without being overwhelmingly so. Just as beer is the partner in crime to wings… so is the sweet tea to the pulled pork.
Holy Moley… These guys know how to cook. Another offering is their Beef Brisket Sandwich with a brand new espresso based BBQ sauce. The beef is slow roasted with pecan smoke which makes it juicy and pretty blissful. The new BBQ sauce really brings out the best flavor of the beef and is rich without overwhelming the natural awesome that the brisket has to offer.
For those vegetarians and vegans who might be thinking that a BBQ like Re-​Up has nothing to offer you. I present their second new creation. A simply marvelous Black bean and corn chili. As a meat free option, it is in no way lacking in flavor. It has a delicious blend of spices and has the perfect hint of heat. They have even created a creamy Cilantro lime sour cream which is drizzled on top of the chili. You can request no sauce be added, leaving this to be a great vegan lunch.
If you were to look at the variety of options available when it comes to street eats here in our city, you would definitely see the ones that stand out. Those that choose fresh over frozen, roasted over deep fried, healthy and flavorful over fatty and boring. Vancouverites pride ourselves on being a green city with healthy lifestyles and lifestyle options. We also love being different and one of a kind. The Re-​Up BBQ is such a great example of ingenuity and creativity in this city. Let’s hope they are granted another license so that we may see them improve our street cuisine with another of their mouth watering creations. Perhaps their next endeavor will be some amazing dessert offering… Wouldn’t that be fantastic!

WOW! Now THAT is a pulled pork sandwich! It was a drizzly day of my first day off for Christmas vacation and was downtown finishing my xmas shopping so I decided to give it a go from a recommendation.
A very pleasant person greeted me and asked what I wanted and hoped I liked it. Pulled pork goodness plus the wonderful iced tea made this definetely a place to go eat! Must go eat here!!!

NapkinNapkinNapkinNapkin, no bun! Jeeebus, this pork. This pristine porking piggy pecks at my palate in perfectly pleasant ways.
It’s messy, it’s tender, it’s moist, it’s sweet, it’s filling my mouth with all sorts of good.
… ooogahhd.
Be mine, always?

Pork perfection on a bun. Extra napkins are a must.
And ReUp’s cheerful dealers will soon be invading my ‘hood with a full-​on location inside the River Market at New West Quay. What other barbecue goodies we’ll be eating when that opens up (early spring anticipated) remains to be drooled over. Chili? Brisket? They might even have a liquor license.
For now, a ReUp cart is on the riverfront boardwalk on many weekends, doling out my fix of pulled pork or brisket sandwiches, and they’re also doing a brisk business in barbecue brunches: bacon, biscuits, gravy and eggs!
Deliciousness at both ends of the SkyTrain line. At $ 7-​$ 9 a sandwich, it isn’t the cheapest food cart, but I guess addicts always complain about the price of their drugs.

The Food: After eating pulled pork from multiple locations, I can no doubt say as a pork lover that this has AWESOME pulled pork. After waiting in line for 0 seconds on Friday at 2:30pm, I decided to visit them after the #SupportYVRfoodcarts movement started by Mary.
I never had the chance to visit them, and this was the perfect time. Literally. Imagine stepping outside, your breath fires out a warm fog and you wrap yourself like piggy in a blanket (which I still need to try) as winter hits your lungs like Muhammad Ali.
And all you crave is something warm for your belly.
It’s almost deceiving. How simple and quick things are handed off to me at ReUp. I look at the bun, the pork and the coleslaw that comes with it. And that’s when things get even more deceiving because what looks like a simple sandwich is far from it.
As I take the first bite, which is always the best, the warmth, the sharp sweet tangy flavours that come from the vinegar in the coleslaw and the bbq sauce soon jump out at you the way King Kong would. And eating that sandwich in the cold made things even better. (more reason to go and eat cart food in the winter.)
But I’m not saying the flavours are tart and sharp to the point they make you wince.
The flavour and texture profile for this «simple» sandwich is actually extremely complex. Not only is the pork sweet, and that they don’t overload anything with salt, but their are hints of spiciness.
it’s the fact that they were able to gather multiple textures together that make it work in such a beautiful way. And this is where the simple turns to delightful.
The bun is like a marshmallow, soft like the way a butterfly would flutter. No joke. And then you have your pulled pork which is soft and tender and MOIST. You can eat it completely on it’s own with your fingers and it’s little firmer than the bun.
And then you add the crunch of the coleslaw into it, so you have a nice hard crunch that echoes through your ears. It’s a wonderful contrast of texture in play. Again it all seems so simple, but yet devlishly delicious.
If you’ve read this far, the danger is now that you’ll have expectations of it being earth shattering. But keep in mind, I’m comparing this sandwich relative to other pork I’ve had in the past. So This 5 star is for the absolute and the relative experience. And don’t raise your expectations.
What you need to do is this. Buy it during the winter, stand aside, close your eyes, and just take the first bite, and try it slowly. Notice the flavours and textures (yes like Ratatouille) and you’ll know what I’m talking about, I promise.
The only thing, I wish there was more coleslaw on all my sandwich. But that’s really about it.
Service: Service was friendly, quick and efficient. Small banter was going on.
Value: Excellent for the quality.
I don’t give out a lot of fives, but I really did like this place, And will be returning during the winter lunches.

Pulled pork. If it ‘aint messy, it ‘aint right.
Unless I’m just blind, there isn’t a heck of lot of decent eats around the downtown core (Robson Square). Being temporarily booted from their spot by the VAG (always a chuckle when I see this abbreviation), I spotted them on Robson and Howe.
We were in a hurry doing last minute gift shopping for a wedding so we grabbed 3 pulled pork sandwiches to go. First good sign: good dose of sauce. When I opened the bag, it was mostly covered in sauce. Dry bbq meat is just plain wrong.
I gorged mine down with few breathing breaks. Was it the best? Not quite, but from a small food cart and only $ 7, it was pretty damn good.

After my favourite BBQ joint closed (RIP Dix) I thought i would never enjoy pulled pork in the city again.
Re-​up does a tasty Pulled Pork sandwich for $ 7. The slaw is zesty and goes well with the bbq sauce and slow smoked pork.

Near-​expiring Good News coupon.
Pouring rain.
Hungry.
Un-​street food friendly weather be damned, I cashed in.
$ 1 for a pulled pork + the chance to tick another cart off my to-​eat list? WIN.
Pulled pork sandwich:
Portuguese bun — phenomenally pillowy. yum!
Pork — undersauced, not as fall-​apart tender or orgasmic as hyped or hoped.
Southern sweet tea:
I could drink this ALL day — refreshing, well-​balanced mix of sweet & tang.
Sandwich didn’t wow…
but I’ll be back for s’more tea & a taste of the brisket!
(Tip for the diehard 604 street eaters: escape the rain @ Robson Square while you chowdown :)

What would I do for a Re-​Up sandwich? I’d do even more than what I did to get that last Klondike bar. Don’t ever ask me what I did for that Klondike bar.
After visiting this place I was pretty excited to see on their website a link to the BBQ Recipe:
1 cup of in your dreams
2 tbls of not in your life
sprinkle of it’s soooo good
heaping tsp of bah-​ha-​ha-​ha. um no
My heart is broken, why? Because the pulled pork is the reason why I go downtown every day. Sure there is my full time job which I love, just not as much as pulled pork.
Re-​Up has a couple of carts around the art gallery so they are easy to spot, you can either pulled pork or beef brisket and yes they are both delicious.
The one downside, during lunch expect a bit of a wait. Don’t ask a meat junkie like me to wait!

I’ve usually avoided food carts, but today I learned that taking chances can be rewarding!
Delicious Pulled Pork Sandwich — hot, juicy and tasty. Home made black cherry juice that was really exceptional. And the staff were delightful!
I considered giving them four stars for not having any convenient seating, but it’s a street cart! What do I expect? Besides the stairs to the Art Gallery are just steps away.
Five stars for blowing my socks off and proving that you can teach an old dog new tricks! Woof woof!

It took me all but ten minutes from viewing the photos of the pulled pork sandwich here on Unilocal,to gazing into the steely windows of piggy heaven that is The Re-​Up BBQ. I watched the girl in the truck make the sandwich right before my eyes… first the pork, then the bbq sauce, topped off brilliantly with some slaw and squished into a delicious portugese bun. I was trying hard to keep my own inner piggy on the down low as the excitement and anticipation escalated.
You know when you see a McDonalds burger on tv and it looks so inviting, succulent and delicious? But you know it’s a big fat dirty lie? All I can say is that after looking at the photo of the pulled pork sandwich posted by Sean N., that what I saw was what I got. My sandwich looked just like that. It was like in the blink of an eye, the sandwich jumped from the computer screen and on to my tastebuds, where it started a party.
Juicy. Moist. Succulent. Tender. Savoury. Sweet. Perfect hint of spice. These are the words that come to mind when I summarise the experience. I was so impressed with this sandwich that I’m actually considering finishing work early and running over to get one for dinner too. Even though my Mexican boyfriend is cooking me Tinga de Pollo with homemade tortillas. Who says I can’t have two in one day? Yes, it was that good.
I also must mention that I found the sandwich filling, without leaving me feeling grossly full and queasy, as I often feel after eating a burger.
Pulled Pork Sandwich + Southwest Sweet Tea = $ 9.25 = Hell Yeah!

I love how Re-Up’s pulled pork sandwiches aren’t swimming in BBQ sauce. I found that the meat was sufficiently juicy and I enjoyed the balance of smoky and tangy flavours.
One thing to note is that you should consume your sandwich as soon as possible after you buy it as the coleslaw will make the bun soggy if you wait too long.
Bottom line: Re-​Up makes a very tasty sandwich!

The right amount of sauce and the right amount of spice on a huge pile of juicy meat and warm bun = orgasmic goodness.
I expected more of a smokey taste, but I really enjoyed the zestiness of the coleslaw and meat in this sandwich.
That was $ 7.00 well spent…

hmmm if Japa dog and Re-​up got married then they’d be called: JAPD-​UP… *crickets chirping*. sorry its late. :(
There are not enough food carts in Vancouver!
Now this is how i wanna eat my tender dead pig! in front of a muthaf#Qn food cart! that’s what i’m takin about! u can smell the wonderful scent of pig for blocks!
warm bun, flavorful tender moist pulled pork with coleslaw and a drink! simply amazing! if i could do a back-​flip i would… but i’m too fat for that and i might break my neck from all the weight! ;)
real talk. this place is killer! check it out if you havn’t already! and if you don’t like it then lunch is on me! ;) k bye!

As many know, I love all Things Porcine even their tasty little noses and feets. But I love a good pulled pig sandwich, and Re-​Up does not disappoint, the meat is moist savory and just right. It is like licking Memphis*. They also pour on the slaw, and for you who say what? slaw on my BBQ. Yes it is a crown of crunchy goodness that many BBQ lovers do. They also make tasty cold drinks and good conversation. Who knew that pig from a steel trailer in Vancouver could be so amazing!
* I have never actually licked Memphis but I have licked people from Memphis, don’t judge me.

* Another new street food option *
Vancouver has a few new street food options. The guys behind this one got a prime location right by the Vancouver Art Gallery, across the street from the HSBC building.
The menu is straightforward. They offer a pulled pork sandwich and some drinks.
The pork was the smoked variety, in classic true BBQ style instead of stewed in a pot with lots of sweet sauces. That said, the meat was not as smokey as I would normally crave, and perhaps the rub was not as well applied as it could be. It was tender in parts and a bit dried out in others.
They added some sauce and some slaw when making the sandwich. The sauce did not blend well with the meat — I suppose because they were keeping it separate until serving to avoid the meat from getting too soggy. So you got some mouthfulls with mostly sauce and very little meat, and the dry parts of the meat could have really benefited from more sauce integration. I know it would be a pain for them, but I wish they would have a mixing bowl and give the meat a good sauce massage before sticking it on the bun, instead of squirting sauce on top after it is already on the bun.
The slaw did add a bit of moisture — perhaps even too much as it was a tad too mayoey for my taste.
Overall it was a decent sandwich — but nothing I would rush back for.
I am looking forward to seeing what else they serve up as they get the operational issues under control, because Vancouver really can use any classic smoked BBQ it can get! I wish the guys from Smoking Crust (
) would resurface someplace!