Review - Lloyd Taco Truck

I absolutely love food, if you couldn't tell. The amazing thing about food trucks is that they bring quality gourmet-style food, to various locations, at street food prices.

Take Lloyd, for instance - they provide links to distributors, so that you can see where your food comes from, and they strive to provide farm raised meats, locally grown (when they seasonally can) vegetables, and hormone free products.  All while bringing this food to you at a cost that rivals fast food restaurants!

Now, locally, food trucks have found some resistance.  The brick and mortars feel that the food trucks take their business, that they have such lower overhead, how can they compete?  My feeling is this - if you have good food, why worry?  Food trucks provide options - people would just as likely not go to a sit down restaurant because they can go get fast food, instead - same concept.  Cheaper (albeit not as good or good for you as a food truck) and quicker - and they likely have a lower overhead due to being part of a corporate franchise.  If you are going to complain about a food truck, then you may as well complain about the next corporate drive through restaurant that opens up across the street.

I love most of the locally owned brick and mortars in Buffalo, and I love food trucks.  So here is my feeling on how brick and mortars should view the food trucks.  Are they competition? Yes, but competition is healthy.  The food trucks allow patrons to not only have decisions, but to have better decisions - and just maybe that will make for a better community as a whole. Let's take a stand to get away from the double hamburger (I suppose it's beef, but is it really?) and Large fry society we live in, together. Even if it means a little competing... I know I will still enjoy a sit down restaurant, and the occasional food truck visit.

Ok, so to the food.

I ordered a chicken and a fish taco.  Rocket sauce on both? Oh, yes.  Delightfully flavorful and spicy, the rocket sauce reminds me of a liquid mole sauce with chili pepper spicy flavor - I may be wrong, but whatever it is, it is delicious!

My tacos came without the pickled onions - not by choice.  This is a small complaint, because the meats were seasoned perfectly!  The cool crunch of the shredded cabbage (and radish on the fish taco!) and mild flavor of the corn tacos was outstanding paired next to the seasoned chicken and fried crunch of the fish. I seriously could not stop eating until the last bite was gone.

Two tacos were plenty of food for me, I suspect people with a larger appetite should go for a burrito.

So, Lloyd is here, and it is delicious!  I look forward to the next time I cross paths with Buffalo's first food truck - they have this cooking in a box thing down to a science!