Mobile Cafeteria

Wayy better than when I went to Off The Grid San Mateo on Halloween, but I got a soft spot for my fave, OTG: Upper Haight; especially with Señor Sisig & 3 SUM Eats being there! I’m so glad though that Mobile Cafeteria has came to the Expo Center, which is a bigger and better venue anyways!
A lot of the trucks offerings sound so appealing. I’ve always wanted to try Toasty Melts, who was there last Wednesday night, but I decided to go with Adam’s Grub Truck. Bf & I shared «The Falkor,» which was a huge fried chicken, bacon & egg messy sandwich but it was quite tasty.
Can’t wait to check out more trucks here when I want to be a bad girl & spend some money by eating some greasy food out on a Wednesday night. But hey, sometimes you just need to cure those Humpday blues, right?

The folks from Gourmet Rockstars have started organizing a weekly lunch and dinner food truck fest in SM. Over 20+ trucks represent their eats, though lunch only had five trucks on premises. Le Bön, Nom Nom, Wow, Hiyaa, Mayo and Mustard, Speedy Panini, Mama’s Empanada’s, Hapa SF, Rice Rocket and a ton more are coming through the event. Brought a few co-​workers and we ended up with wide spread of eats from the various trucks. Looking forward to trying a bunch of new food in the weeks to come.

With Off The Grid going on a winter holiday hiatus till January, it’s nice to see another Food Truck event taking place, especially in the Peninsula. Mobile Cafeteria is brought to you by the folks from Gourmet Rockstars. I came in for the dinner session and was amazed by the number of trucks they had tonight, but saddened to see how dismal the crowd was, though it was pretty understandable since it was a very chilly night. Wasn’t a big deal for me since that gave me the opportunity to try new trucks without waiting in line.
The lineup was pretty solid for the dinner session:
Adam’s Grub Truck
Brass Knuckle
Cheese Gone Wild
Curry Up Now
Gourmet Rockstars
IZ IT Hawaiian Grill
Le Bön de Cuisine
Little Green Cyclo
Mayo & Mustard
Nom Nom Truck
Pacific Puffs
Sanguchon Peruvian Truck
Seoul On Wheels
Toasty Melts
WOW Bun Truck
It was a very good lineup, which actually included a lot of my favorites.
The layout was pretty good with plenty of chairs and tables to sit down and eat and there was plenty of free parking, unlike Movable Feast where you had to pay $ 10 and also you had to pay for drinks from the San Mateo Event Center. I think people were given the expectation that that was going to be the same case with Mobile Cafeteria, which could explain the low turnout. The dinner session was supposed to last til 9pm, but since it was so slow, a good amount of of the trucks packed up and left early for greener pasture. I hope with more publicity that Mobile Cafeteria does better. It has a lot of promise with their impressive Food Truck lineup.