What a tasty experiment: San Antonio, with a twist of Austin.(from the Express-News)
That's how many described Saturday's grand opening of the Boardwalk on Bulverde, the Alamo City's first mobile food truck park, serving up a smorgasbord of gourmet dishes in an outdoor atmosphere not unlike a backyard barbecue.
But these aren't your neighborhood taco trucks.
“It's pretty cool,” said Cory Jernigan, 25, shortly after he chowed down on a salmon sandwich from the Wheelie Gourmet, one of 11 trucks open for business at the park on Bulverde Road, between Loop 1604 and Thousand Oaks Drive. “It's very Austin.”
“I didn't think many people would be here actually,” said Jernigan's girlfriend, Erin Shoemaker, 23. “Because I feel like in San Antonio this kind of thing hasn't really hit — like the trendy stuff.”
Hey, this is San Antonio. We don't have to be trendy to be cool, and we certainly don't have to be like Austin. Then, we wouldn't be San Antonio. Puro.
And please, let's not hate on ourselves.
Besides the variety of food, the Boardwalk is also something new to the North Side, area resident Shawn Meek said.We're perfectly capable of having fun and chilling without having to go to a trendy food truck park to do it.
“To see people in this area congregating, having fun, chilling, it's a good thing,” Meek said.
5 comments:
What the hell, has the dude never been to Market Square for one of the random festivals? Nothing says "chilling and having fun" quite like a woman dancing alone with her beer...
We do self-loathing better than anyone else.
"I can't think of a faster way to get me to not try something than to say it is trendy and all of the cool kids in Austin are doing it."
"And please, let's not hate on ourselves."
Yes, clearly, we need to be hating on Austin.
Yes, clearly, we need to be hating on Austin.
Yes. When people automatically think anything from Austin is better than what we have here and that our town will be improved if we just acted more like Austin, then yes. Clearly.
Let Austin be Austin. And let San Antonio be San Antonio.
Whoever prefers Austin should simply move there to live. More room for us here.
I tried the food trailer park today. G&G's specifically. It was pretty good.
From what I could tell, it was just a bunch of San Antonians enjoying food. Nothing insidiously hip...
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