The Great Food Truck Race

On February 26, The Great Food Truck Race, came to Portsmouth N.H. Living just ten minutes away I knew I had to go no matter what the weather was going to be! My friend, Leanne, and I went around lunchtime hoping to find the four remaining trucks in the race. We did find all four of them. Three of them were close to each other in downtown Portsmouth but one truck, The Creole Queens from New Orleans was parked further out in the McKinnon’s Parking lot.

The four trucks left are the Creole Queens, Magical Mystery Hero’s from Ohio, Big Stuff from Colorado and Lia’s Lumpia from San Diego.

The first truck we found was the Magical Mystery Hero’s truck. They were selling Sriracha Lime Chicken Tacos and Holiday Peppermint Pancake Stack. All of the trucks were challenged to use peppermint in one of their dishes. The line at this truck was very long. Due to the weather being incredibly cold and windy we decided to go to the Big Stuff food truck as we could see the line was not as long.

At the Big Stuff truck, Leanne got the Sloppy Stuff which was tater tots covered in pork green chili for $15.00. Leanne really enjoyed the dish and was nice enough to share a taste with me. This was a hearty warm comforting dish which was perfect on this cold day.

I ordered the Tyler Florence Special. The special was Peppermint Fritters with chocolate sauce and a much needed hot chocolate. $15.00. The fritters were very good and the peppermint came through. The hot chocolate was ok, but much appreciated as it kept my hands warm for a bit!

After a brisk walk and stopping in a few stores for some shopping and to warm up a bit we found Lia’s Lumpia truck. They had the largest line. One of the items they were selling was Lobster Mac and Cheese for $20.00. We heard from people there it was delicious. It was funny as everyone we met in line was doing the same as we were and… going truck to truck.

The last truck we found was the Creole Queens, but they were in the McKinnon’s parking lot further away from the downtown area where the three other trucks were. Although we did find them we did not order anything. They did have a few customers but I did not see many people ordering, many people hanging around talking.

We knew that one team was going home later that day but we did not wait to find out as it was just too cold. I’ll be watching to see who goes home but I have a pretty good idea. The winner of The Great Food Truck Race goes home with fifty thousand dollars.

Best of luck to the remaining trucks!