Introducing: The Food Dudes’ new food truck

The menu at the Food Dudes Truck is divvied up into three categories: munchies (smaller snacks), boxes (salad-type offerings) and sambos (the Dudes’ term for sandwiches). “People charge so much because of rent,” Frenette says of sit-down restaurants, pointing out that their menu tops out at $10. When we stopped by during their very first lunch service, the well-suited Bay Street crowd was chowing down on the Dudes’ barbecue pork shoulder sambo ($8) and the Cap’n Crunch cod tacos ($8), which feature cereal-coated, deep-fried cod, lime slaw, spicy guacamole and house-smoked sour cream.

The Food Dudes’ love for breakfast carbs also works its way into dessert. Take the Nutella bomb ($4), for example: Nutella-smeared banana bread is topped with more bananas, dunked in batter, rolled in Corn Flakes and, naturally, deep-fried ($4). And if that weren’t enough, the mounds are finished with dollops of whipped cream and drizzled with a bourbon caramel sauce. The dessert was a runaway hit at Edgefest, something the Dudes attribute to the festival’s organically induced laid-back atmosphere. Thanks to Frenette’s stint as the Rolling Stones’ touring sous chef (“Keith is a sucker for shepherd’s pie,” he laughs), working a crowd is no biggie—indeed, they’ve labelled their business “food-driven entertainment.”

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