Peachy the Magazine September October 2015 | Page 64

Food Trucks
in Austin
WRITTEN BY

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Garrett Lathan

Food trucks are big here in Austin.
Just like in other cities, often they are
a starting point for talented chefs.
Take, for example, a guy named Aaron
Franklin. The man went from making
the best BBQ briskets this city had to
offer out of an old Winnebago to owning a popular brick and mortar restaurant, Franklin Barbecue. Franklin went
on to win a James Beard award.

That’s one example of many who have
won various awards for their food,
either as a business working out of a
food truck or one that started in the hot
and sweaty belly of one. The demand
for this particular sort of food—and
the competition that comes with that
demand—has driven the quality of the
products being sold. Here are some of
my favorite food truck spots in town.

Garrett Lathan got his start cooking with an underground supper club called Entre
in St. Louis, MO. He spent six years cooking around the city and was most recently
the sous chef at Death in the Afternoon where he was tasked with creating and
overseeing the restaurant’s charcuterie and fermen FF