Business 2.0 has a nice article about great lunchtrucks around the country:
BUSINESS 2.0
December 2003
Street Food for the Discerning Palate
By Andy Raskin
Got 10 minutes between meetings -- and a rumble in your belly? In these five business districts, eating from a cart doesn't have to mean eating junk.
NEW YORK - Hallo Berlin
The self-proclaimed "wurst pushcart in New York" serves up juicy knockwurst ($3), bratwurst ($3.50), and weisswurst ($3.50). Regulars choose what proprietor Rolf Babiel calls his Dictator Special ($5 to $6): two sausages (of Babiel's choice) smothered in steak sauce, fried potatoes, onions, and red cabbage. Babiel got a letter from Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley's office inviting him to relocate, but the East German transplant refused to leave Manhattan. "I am used to da love und da hate," he says.At 54th Street and Fifth Avenue.
PHILADELPHIA - Mom's
It may not be the legendary Gino's, but 17-year-old Mom's can't be beat for cheesesteak deliciousness per square foot of kitchen space. Folks line up at the small stainless-steel cart for the pizza steak ($3.50) -- sautéed chopped beef topped with provolone and Harriet "Mom" Antanasiadis's homemade marinara, which is spiked with oregano and garlic. The Italian hoagie ($3.25) also ranks. Prepare to use every inch of the five or so napkins wrapped around each order.
At Sixth and Chestnut streets.
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