Chip Truck no.1

Some of my friends have made the comment that a lot of my posts are related to food. This post is not withstanding that content, I figured I'd feature a chip truck that's located just outside my office. Since I've been living in Ottawa, I've had food from a handful of chip trucks and I tend to only eat that kind of food about 3-4 times a year. This is my first chip truck adventure this year!

The chip truck couple were looking at me funny, probably cause they saw me taking photos of their truck, but I figure, I'm maybe promoting your food, depending on how good it tastes, just like any ole restaurant reviewer.

So the chip truck is usually located on the corner of Queen and O'Connor. I also find it funny how most chip trucks in town advertise best fries, or best poutine. Read below to see my comments. Here's a few shots of the chip truck:



The food:

I ordered combo no.7, which is a poutine, sausage and pop. I got a Polish sausage. The sausage was quite tasty. It was cooked nicely and opened up to make sure that it was cooked thoroughly. I appreciate it when chip trucks make sure that the food is cooked properly and allow costumers to see it from a quick view that it is properly cooked. Also, by making incisions into the sausage, it allows for the fat to drain out, and you don't get any boiling surprises when you take a bit into the meat. As for the poutine, it was decent. The sauce was quite tasty, a bit salty (but being from the east coast, I like salt in my food.) If you don't like salt, it might be too salty for you. They had a good amount of curds in the poutine, it melted nicely in the middle with the warm gravy. However, I do like squeaky curds, and this one lacked some of that squeakiness. That being said, it still had a good taste. The fries were excellent! If you're looking for good homemade fries, this is a definitely a good spot. They didn't seem to greasy, however that could have been camouflaged by the sauce, but overall, they kept some of their crunch and had a good taste to them. The portion size was good, for a medium size poutine it was definitely big enough and the price was maybe a tad higher than what I'd expect to pay for chip truck food, but overall I'd go back, but that being said, I usually only visit chip trucks about 3-4 times a year, I'd probably go for a different experience.

The bromance...

Today's photo is kind of a joke. Tariq a good friend of mine invited me out for lunch and tweeted the invite if anyone wanted to join us. As he got to the restaurant, he told the waitress that there would definitely be two of us, but there might also be someone else joining us. And we ended up ordering our food, etc, and we ate, and at one point the waitress came over and said "is that other person really joining you, or was this just a dinner for two" and added a wink. She then joked around and said it's ok to have a "bromance"...funny enough, another friend Blaise texted Tariq to see if we were still there and said he'd come and join us. And the waitress made fun of us when he arrived saying that we called him to come and join us, etc. Anyways, all good and fun, but Tariq wanting to be a nice guy, and not have Blaise eat by himself said he'd order dessert and the waitress said do you want two spoons with that, and again she gave me a wink. I said no, I'll actually order one also. So she came out with these two desserts with the sparklers all lit up! All to say it was funny and the food was good.