The Twisted Steaks food truck serves up some favorites.
This is an event that gives a whole new meaning to the term “meals on wheels.”
Forget, for a moment, the ordinary hotdogs, hamburgers and pizza that usually make up the menu selections at the shore.
The Sea Isle City Food Truck Festival on Saturday featured some mouthwatering cuisine such as cheesesteak dumplings, shrimp tacos and smoked brisket grilled cheese.
There was also something called the “Kelce Bros. Sandwich,” a half cheesesteak, half barbecued pulled pork concoction that paid culinary homage to Jason and Travis Kelce of NFL and Taylor Swift fame.
Now in its 10th year, the Food Truck Festival is popular with both Sea Isle residents and visitors to the shore. Nine food trucks offering an array of delicacies lined the property at the Kix bar and nightclub on 63rd Street on Saturday afternoon.
Len and Lisa Hess and their sister-in-law, Amy Schantzenbach, enjoy their lunch at the festival.Festivalgoers were pleased by the quality of the cuisine served up by what are essentially gourmet restaurants on wheels.
Lisa and Len Hess and their sister-in-law, Amy Schantzenbach, showed up precisely at noon for a lunchtime treat of shrimp tacos, beef tacos, mac and cheese and a cheesesteak pretzel.
The Hesses, of Gilbertsville, Pa., and Schantzenbach, of Lake Wynonah, Pa., decided to check out the food truck festival while enjoying a weekend getaway at the shore.
“I had a hard time deciding what to have. I wish I had a bite of everything here – one bite,” Lisa Hess said of the wide variety offered by all of the food trucks.
Judy Mudri and her fiance, Tim Franges, of Bethlehem, Pa., were experiencing the festival for the first time.
Mudri and Franges were closely guarding the gourmet cupcakes they had bought.
“You’re not getting any. Go buy your own,” Mudri jokingly admonished one observer.
Tim Franges and his fiancee, Judy Mudri, buy some pizza cones and cupcakes.They had also eaten some cheesecake dumplings and were getting ready to taste some “pizza cones.”
“They’re very, very good,” Mudri said of the cheesesteak dumplings.
Two other festivalgoers, husband and wife Rob and Theresa Lasky, were patiently waiting at The Nomad food truck for a cheesesteak sandwich and a cheeseburger that they intended to share.
“We’re both splitting it. We’re not going to eat it all,” Rob Lasky said.
The Laskys, who live in Sewell, N.J., have a summer vacation home in Sea Isle on 47th Street. They are fans of the food truck festival. Theresa Lasky noticed that there were a number of food trucks this year that were new to the festival.
“This is a new one; that’s a new one,” she said while pointing them out to her husband.
Jim Caulfield, co-owner of The Nomad food truck, hands customer Rob Lasky a cheesesteak sandwich and a cheeseburger.Co-owned by Jim Caulfield and Erin Joyce, The Nomad was one of the new food trucks this year. It was the truck selling the “Kelce Bros. Sandwich.”
Jason Kelce, the newly retired All-Pro and Pro-Bowl center for the Philadelphia Eagles, owns a vacation home in Sea Isle and is often seen at restaurants around town.
Travis Kelce, the All-Pro and Pro-Bowl tight end for the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs and boyfriend of pop superstar Taylor Swift, is also well-known for his appearances in Sea Isle.
Caulfield said he was pleased to participate in the food truck festival for the first time because he grew up in Sea Isle. His ties to the community include being a former student at the St. Joseph Catholic Church School.
“I love it,” he said of the festival. “It’s kind of like a homecoming for me.”
The Cheezy-D's food truck attracts a customer.
