A few weeks ago I met with Statesman reporter Claire Canavan for a tasty assignment in San Marcos.
She was working on a story about things to eat, do and hear in a town known for it’s river and outlet mall shopping. Instead of featuring the same things that are always featured in a story about San Marcos, she focused on a recent trend – food trailers.
Food trailers have popped up more and more in urban areas, but San Marcos is a smaller town, and not exactly the obvious location to start a food trailer, at least not in my mind. Still, two food trailer parks – Mimi’s Trailer Park Eatery and The Hitch – have appeared in the past few years. Both locations are close enough to the Texas State University campus and down town to have steady business.
Claire had a list of trailers in mind, so we started at the Nibbling Nomad, which is known for it’s specialty tacos and rice bowls. It’s located at Mimi’s Trailer Park Eatery.
Jeremy Summer and Blane Taylor, two of three owners of Nibbling Nomad made us the #5 – Southwest. It includes three corn tortillas filled with pulled pork with a smokey, spicy tomato and onion sauce, topped with queso fresco and cilantro. I got to try it and it was fantastic! I’ve already been back on my own time.
Next up was Lovebaked, a cupcake and cookie bakery, also at Mimi’s Trailer Park Eatery.
India Moore, co-owner of Love Baked, was there when we came by. What makes this cupcake trailer different from others is that all of the cakes and cookies are baked in the trailer. Most places bake them somewhere else and just use the trailer as a storefront.
In the interest of time, we moved on to The Hitch, where St. Pita’s is a favorite.
St. Pita’s features items like falafels (shown below), beef and lamb kebobs, and fried avocado, all with a special “saintly sauce.”
Our last stop was Wanderlust, where owner and only employee Wendy Wan was just finishing a porchetta, an Italian pork roast, that she slices for sandwiches.
It’s beautiful, isn’t it? It wasn’t quite ready when we were there, so we didn’t get to taste, but oh man, it was pretty to look at! Wendy posed with the porchetta in the photo at the top of the post.
It was pretty amazing to see the quality of food being made in these trailers. Gourmet cooking in a small, portable space.
Click here to read Claire Canavan’s story and see more photos.