Anchor ads are not supported on this page.

4S Ranch Allied Gardens Alpine Baja Balboa Park Bankers Hill Barrio Logan Bay Ho Bay Park Black Mountain Ranch Blossom Valley Bonita Bonsall Borrego Springs Boulevard Campo Cardiff-by-the-Sea Carlsbad Carmel Mountain Carmel Valley Chollas View Chula Vista City College City Heights Clairemont College Area Coronado CSU San Marcos Cuyamaca College Del Cerro Del Mar Descanso Downtown San Diego Eastlake East Village El Cajon Emerald Hills Encanto Encinitas Escondido Fallbrook Fletcher Hills Golden Hill Grant Hill Grantville Grossmont College Guatay Harbor Island Hillcrest Imperial Beach Imperial Valley Jacumba Jamacha-Lomita Jamul Julian Kearny Mesa Kensington La Jolla Lakeside La Mesa Lemon Grove Leucadia Liberty Station Lincoln Acres Lincoln Park Linda Vista Little Italy Logan Heights Mesa College Midway District MiraCosta College Miramar Miramar College Mira Mesa Mission Beach Mission Hills Mission Valley Mountain View Mount Hope Mount Laguna National City Nestor Normal Heights North Park Oak Park Ocean Beach Oceanside Old Town Otay Mesa Pacific Beach Pala Palomar College Palomar Mountain Paradise Hills Pauma Valley Pine Valley Point Loma Point Loma Nazarene Potrero Poway Rainbow Ramona Rancho Bernardo Rancho Penasquitos Rancho San Diego Rancho Santa Fe Rolando San Carlos San Marcos San Onofre Santa Ysabel Santee San Ysidro Scripps Ranch SDSU Serra Mesa Shelltown Shelter Island Sherman Heights Skyline Solana Beach Sorrento Valley Southcrest South Park Southwestern College Spring Valley Stockton Talmadge Temecula Tierrasanta Tijuana UCSD University City University Heights USD Valencia Park Valley Center Vista Warner Springs

San Diego’s simplest food truck is Tastlicious

No-frills food truck drops in remoulade and gremolata

This is pretty much the menu
This is pretty much the menu

There’s something refreshing about a food truck that bucks the trend of a cartoonish theme and puts the focus on making a few things well. During a visit to Golden Hill’s Saturday farmers’ market, I stumbled upon such a truck, Tastylicious.

The humble Tastilicious food truck

Not Tasty Fusion Tacos or Gluten Free Paleo Burgers or Haggus on Wheels. There’s nothing trendy or cartoonish about Tastylicious. Just a funny name for a simple food truck that sells all of four sandwiches and two kinds of fries.

Sponsored
Sponsored

Actually, two of those sandwiches are burgers — a cheeseburger and the Oklahoma Burger, apparently so named because it’s made with grilled onions. The fries, meanwhile, are served regular or “fancy.”

Sandwiches run between eight and nine bucks, so food truck prices are in effect. I decided on the chicken sandwich served with fancy fries. The fried chicken breast sandwich was topped with a remoulade, which sits somewhere between mayonnaise and tartar sauce. The fries were made fancy by virtue of a gremolata topping — basically parsley, garlic, and lemon.

You can see the remoulade on this fried chicken sandwich

The chicken sandwich worked out pretty well. I can’t cite anything special about it, though the hoagie-style roll it came on was fresh with a satisfying chew to it. The fried and sliced chicken breast was okay for a sandwich. Had it been served as fried chicken straight up, I would definitely have a problem with its flat breaded crust, which doesn’t have enough going flavor-wise to work without that remoulade safety net.

The fries were genuine sliced potato, but they weren’t terribly crispy and, had I to do it again, I’d avoid going fancy. Call it a personal preference, but lemony fries aren’t something I’m ever likely to enjoy.

Still, this was a friendly bunch serving reasonable food, so I’ll give their burger a shot should I ever come across the truck again. But I don’t see myself following Twitter to find out where Tastylicious is going to be next week.

Here's something you might be interested in.
Submit a free classified
or view all
Previous article

Hip-hop artist Don Elway makes movies for his music

Not Ordinary EP tells a story of life on the streets
Next Article

A poem for March by Joseph O’Brien

“March’s Lovely Asymptotes”
This is pretty much the menu
This is pretty much the menu

There’s something refreshing about a food truck that bucks the trend of a cartoonish theme and puts the focus on making a few things well. During a visit to Golden Hill’s Saturday farmers’ market, I stumbled upon such a truck, Tastylicious.

The humble Tastilicious food truck

Not Tasty Fusion Tacos or Gluten Free Paleo Burgers or Haggus on Wheels. There’s nothing trendy or cartoonish about Tastylicious. Just a funny name for a simple food truck that sells all of four sandwiches and two kinds of fries.

Sponsored
Sponsored

Actually, two of those sandwiches are burgers — a cheeseburger and the Oklahoma Burger, apparently so named because it’s made with grilled onions. The fries, meanwhile, are served regular or “fancy.”

Sandwiches run between eight and nine bucks, so food truck prices are in effect. I decided on the chicken sandwich served with fancy fries. The fried chicken breast sandwich was topped with a remoulade, which sits somewhere between mayonnaise and tartar sauce. The fries were made fancy by virtue of a gremolata topping — basically parsley, garlic, and lemon.

You can see the remoulade on this fried chicken sandwich

The chicken sandwich worked out pretty well. I can’t cite anything special about it, though the hoagie-style roll it came on was fresh with a satisfying chew to it. The fried and sliced chicken breast was okay for a sandwich. Had it been served as fried chicken straight up, I would definitely have a problem with its flat breaded crust, which doesn’t have enough going flavor-wise to work without that remoulade safety net.

The fries were genuine sliced potato, but they weren’t terribly crispy and, had I to do it again, I’d avoid going fancy. Call it a personal preference, but lemony fries aren’t something I’m ever likely to enjoy.

Still, this was a friendly bunch serving reasonable food, so I’ll give their burger a shot should I ever come across the truck again. But I don’t see myself following Twitter to find out where Tastylicious is going to be next week.

Comments
Sponsored
Here's something you might be interested in.
Submit a free classified
or view all
Previous article

Celebrate Holi, Borrego Springs Music Festival

Events March 23-March 27, 2024
Next Article

Pacific Beach – car thief's paradise

Take photos of your automobile and license plate
Comments
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed Big Screen — Movie commentary Blurt — Music's inside track Booze News — San Diego spirits Classical Music — Immortal beauty Classifieds — Free and easy Cover Stories — Front-page features Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts Feast! — Food & drink reviews Feature Stories — Local news & stories Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore From the Archives — Spotlight on the past Golden Dreams — Talk of the town The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it Letters — Our inbox Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news News Ticker — News & politics Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated Poetry — The old and the new Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers Reading — The hunt for intellectuals Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds SD on the QT — Almost factual news Sheep and Goats — Places of worship Special Issues — The best of Street Style — San Diego streets have style Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves Theater — On stage in San Diego this week Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads Your Week — Daily event picks
4S Ranch Allied Gardens Alpine Baja Balboa Park Bankers Hill Barrio Logan Bay Ho Bay Park Black Mountain Ranch Blossom Valley Bonita Bonsall Borrego Springs Boulevard Campo Cardiff-by-the-Sea Carlsbad Carmel Mountain Carmel Valley Chollas View Chula Vista City College City Heights Clairemont College Area Coronado CSU San Marcos Cuyamaca College Del Cerro Del Mar Descanso Downtown San Diego Eastlake East Village El Cajon Emerald Hills Encanto Encinitas Escondido Fallbrook Fletcher Hills Golden Hill Grant Hill Grantville Grossmont College Guatay Harbor Island Hillcrest Imperial Beach Imperial Valley Jacumba Jamacha-Lomita Jamul Julian Kearny Mesa Kensington La Jolla Lakeside La Mesa Lemon Grove Leucadia Liberty Station Lincoln Acres Lincoln Park Linda Vista Little Italy Logan Heights Mesa College Midway District MiraCosta College Miramar Miramar College Mira Mesa Mission Beach Mission Hills Mission Valley Mountain View Mount Hope Mount Laguna National City Nestor Normal Heights North Park Oak Park Ocean Beach Oceanside Old Town Otay Mesa Pacific Beach Pala Palomar College Palomar Mountain Paradise Hills Pauma Valley Pine Valley Point Loma Point Loma Nazarene Potrero Poway Rainbow Ramona Rancho Bernardo Rancho Penasquitos Rancho San Diego Rancho Santa Fe Rolando San Carlos San Marcos San Onofre Santa Ysabel Santee San Ysidro Scripps Ranch SDSU Serra Mesa Shelltown Shelter Island Sherman Heights Skyline Solana Beach Sorrento Valley Southcrest South Park Southwestern College Spring Valley Stockton Talmadge Temecula Tierrasanta Tijuana UCSD University City University Heights USD Valencia Park Valley Center Vista Warner Springs
Close

Anchor ads are not supported on this page.