Falafayette is a pop-up food truck that appears at Romero’s K9 Club & Tap House every week, 985 S. Public Rd. The schedule varies from time to time, but for the next couple of weeks, it is scheduled to be there Tuesdays 11:30-2:30, Wednesdays 4:00-8:00, and Fridays 11:30-2:30. You can sign up on the website (www.falafayette.com) for text alerts to remind you to turn out when they do.
We actually visited Falafayette last November(!). I was very
dilatory about writing my restaurant project reports last year, some kind of
writer’s block I guess. We met our friend Kat at Romero’s, and it was warm
enough to sit outside on the deck. To order food, you have to go online and place an order through the website (first you have to find
the event, or pop-up date, that you want and then click on the ordering link from
that event). To be honest, I did not find this system very
intuitive, but once I got to the menu, it had a decent amount of descriptive detail,
and the website features some nice food
photos.
To help you see the options, I have included a couple of screen shots of the menu, since it is brief. The parenthetical descriptions in the following paragraph are from the menu.
The food is all meatless, and some options are vegan. We tried the Moroccan “pre-rolls” (plant-based meat
alternative dippers wrapped in crispy filo dough served with a side of tahini
sauce), the hummus bowl topped with fries (which does not appear on the menu
anymore), and the falafel bowl (hummus, salads, and pickles with falafel balls
and trio of sauces [tahini, amba, and spicy schug] on the side). We also got a
side order of pita.
We thought the pre-rolls were very tasty and the falafel was excellent. The hummus was a definite star of the falafel bowl and the
hummus bowl with fries, but we found the fries/hummus combo a little odd (which
may be why it is no longer on the menu). However, the hummus was so good that I
should point out that you can buy a whole pint of it by itself. The pita had the
nice fresh chewy/soft combo texture.
There are several other interesting-looking dishes on the
menu, so if you like falafel and other Mediterranean foods, give Falafayette a
try! And note that they also do catering.
* LRP Redux: visiting all the new places that have opened since the end of the previous round of the LRP. www.lafayetterestaurantproject.com
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| Moroccoan "pre-rolls" |
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| Falafel bowl with salads, pickles, and pita side |
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| Hummus bowl with fries |
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