Papi Queso
Well this weekend was another food truck lunch. I happened to see a tweet that the Papi Queso Truck would be at an event at Sycamore Brewing. It was a brunch for the Salty Coconut Can Release. How could I pass up a gourmet grill cheese truck at a brewery.
The brunch was from 9-12 and I got there around 11 so it wouldn’t be too early but hopefully they wouldn’t have run out of too many things. I guess I should mention you won’t just notice Sycamore Brewing as you’re tooling around town as it’s kind of on a side street but that means they have lots of parking on the street and in their spacious lot. They were already serving up draft beer in the taproom and selling cans of the aforementioned Salty Coconut beer (more on that later).
In addition to the regular menu Papi Queso had a couple of special items for the event, a Salty Coconut French toast and a croque monsieur sandwich. I went for the croque monsieur because if you’re going to get a fancy grilled cheese you might as well have one with a snooty French name too.
It was taking them about 10 minutes per order so I went in and grabbed a pint of the Salty Coconut Red Ale and a 4 pack of the cans to help bide my time (just the pint not the 4 pack too). This was a very interesting beer. You immediately got the coconut taste and then the smooth red ale washed it away until the next sip. I wouldn’t want to make a steady diet of it but this was a great change of pace beer.
The croque monsieur was a really tasty grilled cheese as you might expect from something made from French rosemary ham, gruyere cheese on French Pullman bread with sea salt and scallions sprinkled on the top plus a side of truffle mornay sauce for a little dipping. I’m thinking any of the menu items would certainly be worth trying and like any good grilled cheese provider they offer tomato soup as well so you can get all your comfort food needs met at once.
I was going to just go sit in my car and eat the sandwich but the Sycamore Brewery has a beer garden plus additional seating at picnic tables and on one of these tables was a lady on all fours and a guy was taking her picture with two other folks standing there watching. Well I figured I might as well have a show while I ate and sauntered over to one of the other tables to observe this spectacle. By the time I got to table the young lady was contorted into some odd pose with her hands on the table and her legs up around her elbows which made an impressive centerpiece for the picnic table. Based on my observations the story I decided on was that it was a photo shoot for some yoga studio or classes or something. One of the other folks was the posers husband and joined her in some of the shots doing some tai chi looking stuff. It was an interesting accompaniment to brunch.
Final judgements; Papi Queso Truck – Yay Cheese!, Sycamore Brewing – Yay Beer! also they have food trucks regularly on site, Yoga show – Yay yoga pants!