Hot Bird Food Truck Debuts Today
A couple of inspection-related delays later and Alan Harding reports that he’s finally ready to open his much-anticipated food truck in the yard of the former auto shop now known as Hot Bird at the corner of Atlantic and Clinton Avenues in Clinton Hill. The menu (which is listed in full on the jump) includes…
A couple of inspection-related delays later and Alan Harding reports that he’s finally ready to open his much-anticipated food truck in the yard of the former auto shop now known as Hot Bird at the corner of Atlantic and Clinton Avenues in Clinton Hill. The menu (which is listed in full on the jump) includes such items as soft tacos and falafel dogs. This may not be the last stationary food truck we see, given the attractive economics: “I only have to pay rent and electric here,” Harding told The Daily News. “It’s kind of like the only way left in New York to open a restaurant for cheap.”
Food Truck Open for Business [Alan Harding Cooks]
Brooklyn Restaurateur Goes from Big to Simple [NY Daily News]
Alan Harding Revs Up Hot Bird Truck [NY Mag]
Harding’s Food Truck Good to Go [Cobble Hill Blog]
Hot Bird Food Truck Almost Ready [Brownstoner]
Hot Bird, Harding Food Truck Revealed [Brownstoner]
Hot Bird Opening Tomorrow? [Brownstoner] GMAP
Streetlevel: The Return of Hot Bird! [Brownstoner]
Food Truck Menu version 1.0
Smashed Burger ( small Scoop) 4.00
Smashed Burger ( Lg. Scoop) 6.00
Schwag Dog 2.00
Good Dog 3.00
Snappy 4.00
Bratwurst 5.00
Hippie-wurst 5.00
Falafel dog 5.00 (deep fried)
Other things
Rice balls (4, deep fried) 5.00
Panelle Sandwich with roasted eggplant, peppers and basil ricotta 6.00
Soft Tacos with chili du jour and pico 5.00
Lobster Summer Roll with kimchee, mango and mint 9.00
†Snappy†4.00
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FOUR DOLLARS? FOUR DOLLARS?!? I’M WORTH MORE THAN FOUR STINKIN’ DOLLARS, DAMMIT!
Please do have a gathering there, it’s so close I can make it.
Re: food truck, eh, I like ordering from Just Taste It and going here. Or, you know, ordering from Just Taste It and going back to my air conditioned apartment with the cable tv and internets.
My life is exciting and action-packed.
thanks grand army.
i think
*rob*
I love Rob’s comments — even when I hate them. He’s the idiot savant of brownstoner. He makes the site more real and less predictable.
“There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact, makes much impression on him, and another none. This sculpture in the memory is not without preestablished harmony. The eye was placed where one ray should fall, that it might testify of that particular ray. We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted, but God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise, shall give him no peace. It is a deliverance which does not deliver. In the attempt his genius deserts him; no muse befriends; no invention, no hope. ”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thank god some of these alternative food vendors are coming back – we used to be like the rest of the world where food culture reaches to all levels of the social economic spectrum – in India and Mexico cheap street food is delicious and abundant, but until recently this country had lost that great street level access to wonderful food. the big-business centric nature of this city has cost us dearly as far as small owner operated restaurants, and I am so glad the entrepreneurial food people are thinking outside the box and coming up with great alternatives so we can have fun and eat well for reasonable prices.
so go enjoy your big mac or whatever it is that you like rob, and the rest of us will enjoy some real food from these cool new old school truck vendors.
“Rob, one could also say it’s a mockery to have 2 degrees and be spending your time taking your employer’s checks to the bank and placing orders at Staples.”
It’s not a mockery. I think it’s appropriate for a unmotivated, lazy, broke-ass whining loser who blames everyone else for his problems to be someone else’s messenger boy, although personally I wouldn’t trust him to wash my car.
Hahaha. This is funny. Only in New York do people argue off eating food off a what people in other parts of the country call a “Roach Coach” aka a food truck.
Rob, I’m not even upset.
And I do have a job. Several, in fact. I’m doing what I love, and getting paid for it. In a couple of different venues. No, I’m not where I want to be yet, but I’m working on it. That’s more than many can say.