Zach and Julia Greatting may be new-ish to Boise with their food truck and catering business but they are well-experienced-young-guns with food, wine, catering and event planning credentials who create excellent eats to delight customers through Boise Bite. My husband and I are well-experienced-not-so-young-eaters and "well seasoned" home cooks with a focus on local sourcing of quality products and one of our happiest food discoveries in 2020 was a remarkably delicious and professionally assembled Boise Bite meal kit offered through one of our favorite wineries, Telaya, as part of the winery's Friday Night Bites series. We expected the Boise Bite meal to be good given Telaya does everything with excellence as North Star and select food purveyor partners for events who do the same. But this meal exceeded our high expectations.
BOISE BITE MEAL KITS @ TELAYA FRIDAYS: The menu changes each time and is published at Boise Bites web page, FB page and Insta. Order in advance and there is pandemic-safe pick up at Telaya;s easy to access parking lot on that Friday beginning at 3pm. The meal may require a small amount of cooking but it is simple stuff, directions are provided and all is professionally packaged to make using at home a breeze. Sized to serve 2 people, meal portions are ample and we had extras to repurpose for a meal the next day too. Price is $100 and includes a bottle of Telaya's excellent wine from of your choice from any in current release. Our recent meal kit included the following and paired beautifully with Telaya Wahluke Chardonnay:
*Kale salad w/ marinated tomatoes & brioche croutons & Caesar dressing (one of the best of all time)
*Succulent 8 oz bone in pork loin chops w/mustard herb bread crumbs
*Perfectly seasoned farro in risotto style with mushrooms & pecorino
*S'more's chocolate pudding trifle
Note: these Friday meal kits sell out so order early with that in mind. https://boisebite.com/telaya-meal-kits
EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED TO EVERYTHING ELSE: Were it not for Boise Bite being used by Telaya for the Friday Night Bites take away events, we would likely not have discovered them because they are identified as food truck and in the main we aren't food truck fans. But having been introduced to their food, we will both buy Boise Bite meal kits again if they continue this in 2021 and seek out the truck. If truck fare is anything like the meal kits then this is top quality eats on wheels. As high praise meant at first blush, I put Boise Bite possibility in the same class as Wild Plum for catering and if they were brick and mortar they might have potential land with top notch eateries like Madre Boutique Taqueria or Modern Bar & Restaurant for creativity and quality. And in all of those businesses, as in Boise Bite, pride of ownership shines.
NOT ALL WHO WANDER ARE LOST: Zach's bio says: "A love for the west and a sense of adventure now brings Zach to the Boise area to build something new. He is excited to share his passion for food and wine in the Treasure Valley with the new Boise Bite food truck and continue catering for both social and corporate events." I'd say the Treasure Valley is fortunate to have them land here.
YOUNG OWNERS WITH CRED: The owners published bio on their web page so I'll let them 'speak for themselves' through linking the information below. But the thumbnail is Zach was involved in cooking since childhood and followed has passion to culinary school in Chicago and a wine program in Napa to become Chef and Somm before working with another partner and Julia to start a respected catering and events business, Brix, in Chicago. Julia, who has an International Business degree, had a passion for planning parties and then events and moved into that professionally from political fundraisers to planning large scale corporate events for Marriott and then running the catering division for an artisan food purveyor in Chicago while working with Zach to create and manage Brix. More bio: https://boisebite.com/about
HOW TO FIND THE TRUCK & WHAT'S ON THE MENU: In my humble experience, many food trucks do a poor job of keeping their web sites and FB pages current to be able to know where they are when and what's on the menu. Boise Bite does a good job of both and an even better job via Insta (as is true for most trucks it seems). https://boisebite.com Given I am a non fan of Insta (I can't figure out the appeal) I appreciate timely updates via their FB page and detail info via web site. Such as list of truck menu items for the season...although of course not all things on all days. Offerings like sweet potato tacos, farro risotto (don't miss this) , santa fe wings, lobster mac n cheese and Fall bite burger in $10 - $18 range. https://boisebite.com/food-truck-menu read more