My wife and I encountered Thoroughfare outside of The Community Tap last night. After seeing some…read morefolks come in with orders of Tots with Bacon Jam, Butternut Squash soup, and a Chicken Sandwich on a beautiful ciabatta roll, we had no choice but to cave in and place an order ourselves.
Being from Asheville, we're no stranger to food trucks, but Thoroguhfare's truck is beautiful. The color pallette they utilize is a classical black and white, but the accents run throughout the truck, including the covered awning! An awning on a food truck, to shield customers from the sun and rain, what a touch of class. Also, everything was immaculately clean. I couldn't tell if this truck was brand new, or if they give the thing a french restaurant style scrub down at the end of every service.
The menu was simple yet well prepared, there were the aforementioned items, as well as Fish Tacos (my favorite) and Shrimp and Grits with a nice large hunk of tilapia. We selected the Fish Tacos. $9 for two tacos is a bit expensive, but I feel like we were paying for the quality of ingredients and the convenience of location. Ordering was quick, payed with a card via Square, and the person operating the window took down our phone number to text us when our order was ready. This is another really pleasant courtesy.
Our tacos were prepared quickly and we dove in. The kale was a very interesting choice. It provided a nice green flavor to the tacos, but I missed the crunch of the standard cabbage. It's cool, kale is in, I get it. Kale is probably much healthier than cabbage as well, I know. It's just... I want that bite curve! Aside from me being a real dork about the need for cabbage in fish tacos, they were excellent. The fish was prepared extremely well, and the white sauce was totally on point.
While eating my wife mentioned how everything tasted so fresh and healthy, that although we were eating fried fish she didn't feel guilty or bad. Lovely!
This is a great food truck, and I hope that Greenville embraces and supports it.