Melted Food Truck

Originally published by Optimista.

Recently, the management of our office complex has been arranging for various food trucks to visit us at lunch time. Our office has very few food options nearby, so this development is quite exciting. I love trying new food trucks but I hate eating outside when the temperature is in the 90s, so being able to take the food back to my delightfully climate-controlled office is pretty happy-making.

One of my favorites of the parade of trucks that has come by is the Melted Grilled Cheese Truck. Their menu piqued my interest immediately – almost every single one of their offerings sounded like something I wanted to eat. After much internal debate, I settled on a Farmer’s Market BLT ($10). There were a bunch of us ordering from our office, so we also got a couple sides of tater tots ($2) and a side of Asian crunch salad ($3).

The Asian salad was pretty well portioned for $3, but it could have used a little more oomph, maybe a bit of salt or acid to zing it up a bit. This would be an easy fix, though, and it was nice to have something relatively healthy to help justify the tater tots.

While I’d be hard pressed to recall a tater tot I didn’t like, these tots were excellent specimens – nice potato flavor with a satisfyingly crunchy exterior.

The Farmer’s Market BLT was excellent. The flavors and textures played perfectly off one another. Tangy goat cheese, juicy fried green tomatoes, crispy bacon, spicy arugula, garlic aioli – the ingredients are a virtual greatest hits of “things I like on sandwiches.” And the locally-made sourdough bread was just the right texture – awesomely buttery-toasty, but soft enough to avoid feeling like I was scratching up the roof of my mouth. Full disclosure: approximately ten napkins were harmed during the “research” for this blog post.

Best of all, 100% (yes, you read that correctly) of the truck’s profits are donated to the International Justice Mission, an organization that works to protect people in developing countries from violence.

In a saturated food truck market, it can be overwhelming to figure out which to try. My vote is that you put Melted at the top of your list. Delicious food and a charitable cause make this truck a standout from my perspective.

Melted Food Truck
Mobile locations – check here to find out where they’ll be
(512) 710-MELT

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