Chef Shack - Minneapolis Food Truck

I'm currently reporting from the Minneapolis U2 Concert and I am terrified to go outside. I've never seen so many suburban moms in one place and I grew up in Eagan. It took me fifteen minutes to walk two blocks. There is a $25 million stage about one city block from me. I can see the huge, green top of "The Claw" look at me like Cthulu from the depths.


This. This is what's happening. And that is one parking lot.

But, Bono aside, I wanted to report on my first Minneapolis food truck experience. Minneapolis has a burgeoning food truck culture and I could never be bothered to find a moving restaurant until today. Something in me craved a challenge.

So I headed to the Mill City Farmer's Market to meet up with The Chef Shack.



There wasn't much of a wait and outside of the shack there was a table set up with about six tubs of different pickled veggies. I also grabbed the ominous bottle of XXX sauce.



They were also, unfortunately, out of the beef tongue taco when we got there around 1pm.


An excellent specimen of nacho for only SIX DOLLARS.

I got the Shack Nachos, tortilla chips (with a perfect hint of chew) topped with pulled porn, queso, garden salsa, and guacamole. You may think this is craziness but this was the first time I have ever had guacamole in my entire life. My boss laughed at me when he saw this picture and said that the nachos didn't look anything like food but they were amazing. The salsa was incredibly fresh and had a pickled flavor to it and the guacamole had a hint of sweetness that I don't think is natural in the avocado. There were also some very succulent roasted black beans in there.



Gwyneth and Anneliese, my farmer's market friends, had the sweet potato tacos. Without the sprinkling of queso I believe they're vegan. They were made with roasted black beans, mashed sweet potato, the garden salsa, and queso.

The farmer's market was, all in all, amazing. They had a fresh squeezed juice stand that looked great but I already had a tea with me so I didn't get to try it. The entire market shut down around 2pm so I'll have to remember to get there much earlier next time. They had a pesto making demonstration at 10am that day.

After the Chef Shack we were fortunate enough to grab the last of the Sonny's Ice cream. I mixed the frozen hot chocolate with toasted coconut and it was probably an 8 on my ice cream scale.