Saturday, April 6, 2013
Saturday, April 6, 2013

Food truck takeover at 30th Street

The Porch at 30th Street will host food vendors on Wednesdays and Fridays in April.

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Food truck takeover at 30th Street

POSTED: Tuesday, April 2, 2013, 9:51 PM

The lunchtime selection at the Porch at 30th Street (just outside 30th Street Station) will include food trucks from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Wednesdays and Fridays in April.

The lineup:

Wednesdays: The Cow and The Curd (cheese curds), Cupcake Carnivale, Lucky Old Souls (burgers), and the Sunflower Truck Stop (sandwiches)

Fridays:  Just Jackie's Food Truck (sandwiches, soups, sides), Say Cheese (grilled cheese sandwiches), Spot Burger, and Sweetbox Cupcakes.

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Comments  (29)
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 9:29 AM, 04/03/2013
    Cheese Steak Charlie > why should the hard working food truck folks take their mobile offerings to areas having enormously greater likelihood of being robbed at gunpoint ??
    zen
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 10:42 AM, 04/03/2013
    Crapadelphia has the highest crime rate in the country. Anyone with a foot in the city takes their life in their hands, esp since you have cops without any real education who are lazy, corrupt and sit in cars all day
    intelliwoman
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 9:34 AM, 04/03/2013
    Keep up the negativity and closed mindedness people. It just means I have less of a line to wait in for some good food.
    superturtle
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 9:39 AM, 04/03/2013
    There's going to be a roach coach bubble developing with all these roach coaches at every corner in "good" neighborhoods. I can see it, just like the dot com and home mortgage bubbles before. They need to expand to the ghetto to avoid any shortage of business before it's too late! Sure there's gangstas and people living off of gov'ment pay, but at least it's mo' money for these roach coaches. Y'all can go ahead and eat your roach burgers and roach pizzas while ya still can!
    OohChildNoPhilly
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 10:17 AM, 04/03/2013
    Terrific line-up! Yummmmm
    msmame
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 10:25 AM, 04/03/2013
    Cheese Steak Carlie: It's because Philly has incredibly restrictive & bizarre rules as to where the trucks can set-up. Trucks aren't even allowed to feed the Center City public aside from at Love Park & 30th Street. Want better food by your work or home? Ask City Hall why we have overly strict food truck regulations.
    phillypapers
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 10:41 AM, 04/03/2013
    Food poisoning and illegal city. No inspection certificates posted, wouldn't eat at any of them if I were starving. Of course crapadelphia is the only major (?) metro that basically has no sanitation, cooking or food prep requirements beyond basic. Chicago, yes. Portland, yes, Boston, yes, SF, yes Crapadelphia, business as usual.
    intelliwoman
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 10:41 AM, 04/03/2013
    Food poisoning and illegal city. No inspection certificates posted, wouldn't eat at any of them if I were starving. Of course crapadelphia is the only major (?) metro that basically has no sanitation, cooking or food prep requirements beyond basic. Chicago, yes. Portland, yes, Boston, yes, SF, yes Crapadelphia, business as usual.
    intelliwoman
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 10:51 AM, 04/03/2013
    'roach coaches'? who are you people? it scares me to think that i share this city with you morons - go out and get a job and open your eyes...and stop voting and reproducing
    ikemcmichaels
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 11:23 AM, 04/03/2013
    How is it that with every article posted on this site the comments break down into one of three arguments? Black vs white, city vs suburbs, and self hate vs city pride? People just love to be miserable in this town.
    superturtle
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 11:44 AM, 04/03/2013
    I steer clear of the food trucks. Some of them from overseas have arms are so hairy and Ms. Lou found black arm hair in her skimpy cheese steak they make. They never use gloves. Hands all over dirty money and all up in your food. Cross contamination too. Bring a bag lunch and save yourselves the stomach virus at the very least. Think with your heads, not with your empty stomachs.
    MS. LOU.
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 12:17 PM, 04/03/2013
    Food trucks come overseas? (Or are you making an ethnic slur?)Must be amphibious? Hundreds of people at U Penn eat at them daily for past 25 yrs. If you don't like the color of their skin, ask them to put gloves on. Most of them use gloves anyway. A lot of ignorant posts here.
    rita rn
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 12:43 PM, 04/03/2013
    How does it contribute to the economic vitality of the City to allow roving low-rent (practically rent-free) trucks to undercut those who own or lease physical restaurants? It makes no sense. I wonder how many do-gooders ignore this in the name of eating some "cool" food?

    If I had an eatery in 30th Street Station or on the Penn or Temple or Drexel campuses, etc., I would want the food trucks to scram!
    BillyBoy70
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 9:26 PM, 04/04/2013
    They can't be all that great. I never see a line of more that 2 people ordering anything. And by the way if they were all that the I.R.S employees would hang out there instead of in there smoke cubbys outside.
    Phillie Hi Drop Outt.


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