Food Trucking in San Diego

The food truck scene has become mighty popular recently and there’s no shortage of great food trucks wandering about the cities of Southern California.

I’ve tried a few of the food trucks that are out and about in San Diego, and here’s a peek at some of my favorite food truck grub.

Tater Tots from Eat at Recess

Eat at Recess is a fun food truck with a school playground theme. Most of their menu items are named after playground games (such as “Red Rover” – a salad with hot sauce drenched grilled chicken with spring mix and buttermilk ranch dressing) or the different types of people you find as school (such as “The Bully” – a bacon BBQ cheeseburger).

The best thing that Eat at Recess offers up are their outstanding tater tots. Tater tots! Who knew tater tots could be so delicious?

You can get the tater tots three different ways – plain, with only Recess seasoning or “AP Tots” with truffle oil and feta cheese, or my personal favorite, the “Remedial Tots” topped with bacon salt, cheddar cheese and their tasty Recess sauce.

The tater tots are fried to a perfect golden crisp. The outside of the tots stays crispy and crunchy while the insides are soft and melt in your mouth delicious.

The bacon salt, cheese, and Recess sauce serves to add an extra oomph of flavor to these seemingly simple tater tots. If you spot the Eat at Recess truck out in your daily travels be sure to pick up a batch of these babies!

The Captain, Crab Cakes and You

“Two for the Road” is another great little food truck making its way around the ins and outs of San Diego. They serve up classic American food that’s sure to comfort your soul.

One of their in rotation items is this dish called the Cap’n Crunch Crab Cake. Yes, you read that right – it has Cap’n Crunch cereal in it! Don’t be too alarmed though, it’s not as if there are large chunks of cereal within the crab cake.

The cereal is used as a coating, the same way you would use bread crumbs to coat a piece of chicken for frying.

The Cap’n Crunch coating gives the crab cakes a little twinge of extra sweetness which I really enjoy. Now they do use imitation crab in these cakes, so if that bothers you… well, you should still try it anyway.

It’s got a wonderful taste and sweetness combined with the outer crunch and a tasty spicy lime mango dressing that is totally killer on the crab cakes. A must try if you ask me!

It’s also a good idea to pair any of their menu items with their half order of Parmesan fries. Their Parm fries are my favorite of the food truck bunch – always super crispy and tender on the inside and the grated Parmesan sticks to the outside of the fries giving them a good salty flavor.

Much better than some places where I’ve seen them use shavings of Parm that you have to pick up and eat separately.

Saving the Best for Last – Devilicious

Devilicious is by far my favorite of the bunch – from the creative menu items to the simple attention to details in their excellent food. Everything is always grilled or warmed or toasted (which I love) and cooked perfectly.

Their menu changes from time to time but one of their standards is their Lobster Grilled Cheese sandwich.

Lobster pieces are sandwiched between grilled, buttered sourdough bread and filled with melted cheeses and caramelized onions for that perfect bite of grilled cheese and lobster. It’s rich and decadent and transports you to food nirvana with the first bite.

The also have an “All Crab Crab Cake” sandwich on an English muffin that is truly to die for. This one is made with real crab meat and has never disappointed me. It comes with Devilicious sauce (a mix of mayo and Sriracha), greens and just enough binder in the crab cake mix to make it a perfect and delicious sandwich.

There are tons of food trucks out there on the scene with plenty of food truck gatherings so you can sample items from a few trucks at once to find your new favorite mobile food spot.