Food trucks have been part of the San Joaquin Valley in central California for decades. How else to get a hot, decent Mexican lunch to the workers tending the nation’s bread basket during the harvest? You don’t know how good a couple of tacos and a tumbler of horchata tastes until you’ve spent a dusty morning tending an almond orchard or harvesting tomatoes. Recently though, the trucks made their way onto the streets of Modesto, then San Francisco, and now it’s trendy for the suits to walk past the New York delis in search of the food truck serving made-to-order pastrami sandwiches and sun tea.
Now it’s Kansas City’s turn, and my favorite food truck is CoffeeCakeKC. The big red truck offers the artisan coffee roasted by Shawnee’s E.F. Hobbs, owned by Brian Jurgens, and fresh baked goods by Overland Park’s 3 Women and an Oven. They are still tweaking their routes for maximum coverage, but they keep an updated schedule on their website, coffeecakekc.com, so it behooves you to keep an eye on their whereabouts each week. It’s worth the effort if you want to support excellent local coffee with a generous slab of local pumpkin bread. And nothing is more convenient than eschewing the drive-thru of a national chain in lieu of having your fast broken at the front door of your place of business. Keep a look out for them.
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