Give & Grub

Concept is great for donating a meal to the needy, however the food (smoked pork quesadillas) was terrible. Salsa tasted like Pace chunky salsa from a jar. Came with what looked like plantains and a cheese sauce you’d get at a Highschool Concession stand. Not in line with the quality other food trucks have to offer. I’m glad that someone will enjoy a meal from this purchase, but I will stay away from this in the future.

LOVE the concept, the Give and Grub truck, is sponsored by the Laser spine Institute and for each meal purchased a meal is contributed to the homeless at Feed Tampa Bay and Metropolitan Ministries.
They are a fixture at all of the Lightning and Storm games at Amelie Arena and various other events.
The prices are $ 9 for an enormous meal and the menu features about 10 different «gourmet items».
Although about 8 of us loved and supported the concept the food was not too good, and none of us ate more than a few bites. These included the Mac and Cheese, Bbq chicken sliders, steak sandwich and the shrimp dish. The quality of the food and the portion size were great, as well as their mission which is why I have a 2 star rating. But the food… as mama said if you don’t have something nice to say…

Put the Give and Grub Food Truck on your «must try» list now. Just do it.
Not only is the food delicious from this food truck, when you purchase a meal, they will donate a meal to someone in need.
The Laser Spine Institute’s Give and Grub Food Truck can be found at Amalie Arena on Tampa Bay Lightning and Tampa Bay Storm game days and also at Channelside for the Lightning NHL Playoff Watch Parties.
The staff was very friendly. And, I was pleasantly surprised that turnaround time from when I placed my order to when I received my order, was fairly quick.
We ordered the Hattrick Chicken Sliders and the Slapshot Salad. Both entrees were very good! The chicken combined with the Southern Coleslaw was delicious. The sliders also came with some very tasty pasta salad and chips, which were both equally as good.
The Slapshot Salad was huge! I had leftovers and was able to eat it for lunch the next day, too. The mix of the salad greens, feta cheese, cranberries, chicken, walnuts combined with the Fuji Apple Dressing was to die for!
I highly recommend the Give and Grub Food Truck. The food is excellent and it serves a greater purpose, too.
Also, please remember to use the hashtag #GiveandGrub on all your social media posts for Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. The Laser Spine Institute will donate a meal to someone in need with every post.

Give & Grub is amazing! It is a collaboration of the Laser Spine Institute and the Tampa Bay Lightning. Their purpose is to serve amazing gourmet food (they even have a REAL chef) while donating meals to the hungry in the Tampa area.
You have two ways to easily donate a meal:
1) Buy a meal ($ 9) — they are at most (maybe all?) home Lightning games and you can look at their schedule on the website.
2) Share #GiveandGrub on PUBLIC social media. That is right, you can donate a $ 9 meal to a kid in need for FREE by posting a hashtag on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or Pinterest. As long as your post is public so that they can track it. If your friends retweet it, another meal is shared for each retweet too. So cool!
For the record, Give and Grub has donated over 25,000 meals already. They visit schools often to feed hungry children. Check out their website and follow their social media and you can see the process in action.
Anyways, the food is pretty legit. I have tried a few things and my favorites are the Hedman’s Steak Tacos and the Callahan’s Mac Slam. The Hedman’s Steak Tacos are packed full of flavor and some of the best tacos that I have ever had. They even do a double shell to make the tacos street friendly. They are amazing and my first recommendation. Callahan’s Mac Slam is also delicious. It is cheesy, gooey mac n cheese with kielbasa slices on top. I have also tried the sweet potato fries and they are great if you dig sweet potato fries that are on the sugary side. They are drizzled with butterscotch and marshmallow sauce. Yum.
Give & Grub is a great dining option that I definitely recommend before the game or just on a night when you want a quick, but yummy dinner.

It was that time of year again. Gasparilla half-​marathon time! I was not running of course, because running is the worst. However, I was participating in some after-​run activities. I joined Joel H., J-​Fur, and Z-​Bot at Cotanchobee Park for some food and festivities. I arrived to find Joel H. interviewing someone from the food truck, which was his reason for the outing. I had never heard of this food truck, but I am seriously lacking in my food truck knowledge.
J-​Fur opened up a container of food, and I moved in for further inspection. I was starving, and I had just walked like a mile from the parking garage. Okay, maybe half a mile. Anyway, the food was called the Bishop Bowl and I was a little hesitant at first, because I am not usually that into vegetarian dishes. I was pleasantly surprised, though. The bowl had rice, plantains, tofu, mango, and peppers. I was a fan of most of it, but my picky self does not like peppers. I ended up battling with my baby niece for bites of the bowl.
I have come to expect vegetarian and vegan cuisine when out with my sis and bro-​in-​law. Therefore, when asked if I wanted to try something else off the menu, I declined. Then Joel H. informed me that they had meat options! Well, that changed things. I ordered the Chicken Parmkos, a popular item. The sandwich is pretty much a chicken parmesan sandwich, served on a very yummy sub roll. The chicken had a good flavor and seemed fresh. It came with a side of homemade chips and a small dish of pasta salad. I really enjoyed the pasta, and I also liked that they included something different as a side with a sandwich.
Additionally, I learned that the truck was a project of the Laser Spine Institute, which intrigued me. I found out from Joel H. that they partnered with five other organizations, with the goals of using profits from the truck to fight hunger, and also to provide top-​quality food truck options. I think that earns them extra cool points.

Everyone knows that the more people that get involved in something, the more likely it is to be ruined. There’s even an ancient proverb that speaks directly to keeping collaborations to a minimum: «too many cooks spoil the broth». I think it is time to mark that proverb with a big ol’ asterisk, one that is footnoted at the bottom with the words «the exception to this proverb is Tampa’s Give & Grub food truck.
A project by Laser Spine Institute, the Give & Grub food truck was created through an integrative partnership between five different organizations: the Laser Spine Institute, Tampa Bay Lightning, Feeding America Tampa Bay, Metropolitan Ministries and Roaming Hunger. With Laser Spine Institute leading the charge, these five organizations began working together to achieve two things: feed Tampa Bay citizens gourmet food from a food truck and use the profits to fight back against hunger.
So what about the food that Give & Grub sells from the truck? The truck offers seven items. One of their most popular items is the Chicken Parmkos (honoring Steven Stamkos). It consists of Chicken Parmesan on homemade bread that is baked fresh in a commercial kitchen the day the truck goes out. The sandwich is served alongside housemade potato chips. My sister-​in-​law opted for the Parmkos. It was a huge sandwich that she couldn’t finish in one sitting. She was a fan.
Another popular item is the Hedman Steak Tacos (named after Victor Hedman). I’m not sure if Hedman is into tofu or not but Give & Grub offers a tofu version for the vegetarians. The tacos are served with marinated tofu, roasted corn, Pico de Gallo and Tijuana rice. They are then topped with spicy chipotle ranch and served alongside a container of black beans and fried plantains. The tofu on these tacos is hands down some of the best I’ve had in Tampa. Sate Asian Grill and Taco Bus are the only places comparable in the tofu department. Whatever that tofu was marinated in gave it a nice flavor that lingered long after each bite. Also standing out were the peppers that were layered across the bottom of the tortilla. They too had a very distinctive flavor. The tortillas themselves? Fabulous. Each taco comes double wrapped in flour tortillas. These tortillas serve as a safety blanket, protecting the tacos from extreme conditions. I took a set of tacos to go and the tortillas were still crispy the next day. Most tortillas can’t stand up to the family fridge and they go soggy with fright. Give & Grub’s just laughed at the weather whole time.
The surprise of the day belongs to the other vegetarian friendly item on the menu, the Bishop Bowl. I say this because I did not expect to be a fan of it. The bowl is named after goalie Ben Bishop. It is piled high with blackened tofu (or shrimp), wasabi caramel, mango, plantains and cilantro rice. The dish nicely melds together Cajun cooking, Japanese spices and South American fruit. The bowl is huge. It probably weighs more than a quarter of what Bishop weighs. Both J-​Fur and I were really impressed with the bowl. Again, the tofu and peppers were top notch. But they were only part of the fun. The sweet of the mango and plantain and the slight spiciness of the wasabi caramel helped finish off a dish that pleases all the parts of your palette.
Give & Grub’s food proves that having too many cooks doesn’t necessarily have to spoil the broth. Sometimes, if the wrists flick just right, all those hands can actually create an amazing product. But what truly sets the truck apart is that all the profits from their amazing product go to help better the Tampa community.

WOW! Great food! I had the Steak Tacos and they were so juicy it was running down my face… I had to use at least six napkins. The Mac and Cheese is by far hands down my favorite on the menu. Next time the truck is around I am going to get the Chicken Sliders. Everyone was raving about them. After all that good food it is really good to know this is all going to a good cause. Every meal purchased, Laser Spine Institute donates a meal to a child in need.

The best food truck in Tampa Bay! I had the chicken parmesan sandwich and it was fantastic. Huge chicken breast, great sauce and the bread it came on was really good.
The person in front of me got the shrimp dish and it looked really good as well.
If you see the truck, definitely stop. They also donate a meal to help underprivileged kids for every meal you buy.