Perogy Boyz Food Truck

This is a food truck that the husband has been wanting to check out for a while and we finally did it on a drizzly day near the university.  After seeing Perogy Boyz Food Truck on Eat Street, it seemed like it would be a good opportunity to try unique perogy fillings that aren't easily found at restaurants or stores (side note: the husband really, really likes cottage cheese perogies but has not found them readily available in Calgary - any suggestions?).  The irony is that in the end, the husband went with the traditional perogies so that he could see how they fared against past perogies he's had.

Considering the fact that getting a perogy fix in Calgary is limited, the husband deemed his traditional perogies to be good; however, they didn't necessarily taste that different from our favourite store-bought perogies.  The wife's perogies were more uncommon although she was confused at first because she forgot that the sauerkraut was a filling and not a topping.  The strange thing is that she didn't realize this until a few perogies later, which meant that there was almost no taste differentiation between the sauerkraut perogies and the traditional perogies.  Despite this, we did appreciate the amount of bacon and sour cream we received which lasted until the end of our meal.  The sausages on the other hand were a little small for our liking and accompanied by a mustard that was so strong that we abandoned it.

While the meal was filling enough for a lunch, we did find it to be quite costly and the wait time was much too excessive as it was 45 minutes of standing in light rain, something that might not even happen in a sit-down restaurant (the time it took, not the weather conditions).  Since most people get a limited amount of time for lunch, Perogy Boyz needs to become more efficient in order to attract and retain the lunch crowd.

The husband's traditional perogies and knackwurst sausage.

The wife's sauerkraut perogies and Kielbasa sausage.

Seafood-free friendliness: What's positive about Perogy Boyz is that they don't have seafood on the menu at all.  What's negative is that it felt like we were paying "market price" for our food and waiting for them to catch it live.

Holy Crepe Food Truck

We did it!  It's amazing what happens when you post your goals online - they actually take place.  Alright, that may be a slight exaggeration but this past week, we decided that we had to find the Holy Crepe Food Truck.  Their completely seafood-free menu really enticed us but what made us go out of our way was the idea of indulging in the Holy Smokes crepewich.

We were worried that we'd miss them for lunch but caught them just in time.

We apologize for the blurriness of the picture (hungry tummies, unsteady hands) but this crepewich was large enough that we shared it.

The only thing we have to say is that searching out this food truck in the middle of downtown was worth it.  The smoked meat was delectable, the chipotle aioli sauce gave the crepe such a nice kick, and the melted cheese rounded everything out.  It is always a treat when we can fully enjoy anything off of a food truck/restaurant's menu without needing to worry about seafood contaminating any of our selections - now we just need to go back for more crepes!  (The husband's only regret was that he had to share his crepe; he would have much preferred one all to himself.)

Seafood-free friendliness: It doesn't get any better than this food truck and its seafood-free menu.  If Holy Crepe stays this way, this truck may easily become our newest favourite.

Future Eats: Holy Crepe Food Truck

We don't know when we'll end up crossing paths with the Holy Crepe Food Truck but it's on our radar now.  If you look at their menu, there is absolutely no seafood - only what looks like tempting crepe goodness.  Our main difficulty is that neither of us are downtown during the day so we usually have to catch food trucks at special events or weekends (if they happen to be out).  But, since we both have a love for French/Quebecois fare, we might have to figure out how to go out of our way for this one.  Future post to come? :)

Past Eats: Red Wagon Diner

While we only thought of creating this blog yesterday, we have definitely been trying to eat our way through our city long before then.  Unfortunately, we haven't always taken pictures but we did find one from Sunday, May 6, 2012 when we came across the Red Wagon Diner in the East Village.  This new Calgary food truck serves one thing, and one thing well - Montreal smoked meat.  That alone caught our attention, especially since the wife once lived four blocks away from a pretty neat little place in Montreal called Schwartz's (perhaps you've heard of it?).

Although we know that the Red Wagon Diner does not compare to Schwartz's, it's much, much better than our attempts to make the famous sandwiches, plus you get a generous portion of meat, soft rye bread that holds everything together, and a large pickle.  We saw them at the Calgary Lilac Festival but haven't caught up with them again as we don't work downtown so we're looking forward to our next encounter.

The traditional smoked meat sandwich - they ran out of the other specials but this one did not disappoint.

Seafood-free friendliness: We think this one speaks for itself :)  The menu does offer smoked salmon eggs benedict and salmon as an ingredient for their omelettes; however, we would assume that their breakfast menu is kept separately from their lunch menu.  For full assurance, it would probably be best to ask if the ingredients are handled separately within their truck (when we ate our meal, they only advertised their sandwiches).