I drove past this BBQ truck that I have never seen before parked in front of the Club Tap Cocktail Lounge on North avenue in Wauwatosa so I pulled over so I could get the word out on Yelp but what a piss poor Yelper would I be if I didn't go back and report my findings. I don't think that I have ever seen a food truck on North Ave so I'm going back to check it out.
Ok not to offend any one but this is one serious ghetto Bbq truck that started life as a little school bus. I was seriously skeptical because there was no Bbq smell or any visible grill smoking away but I'm going to follow this stop to the end. The people were nice enough and rattled off what the truck had today but I said what do you recommend and I was told the pulled pork so that's what I got. The pulled pork is sauced and piled on white bread with a second slice on top with two sides, Mac and potato salad was in my dinner and all dinners are $10 according to the sign on the truck.
My skepticism was only reassured by the lack of any Bbq smell in my car. I picked out a couple pieces of pork to sample and it was pork on the dry side covered in a dark Bbq sauce, definitely not just made and no flavors that conveys Bbq at all i.e. no smoke, no grill, no charcoal and really just sauce on pork. The pulled pork was hard and dry and even though I tried to eat it, 3/4 went to the trash. The sauce was sweet at first with a small spicy finish and that's all the BBQ flavors it had.
Now for the sides and this is where some really good BBQ places fall short with mediocre sides that have 1/100 the attention they give the meat. The generic wonder white bread was soft and fresh. The Mac was all bland mush over cooked noodles but it was seasoned well with no real cheese flavor, a box of Kraft cooked al dente would have worked better. The potato salad even if it's store bought and I couldn't tell was good with potatoes cooked just right, not mushy but not hard with a nice sweetness balanced with the crunchy fresh bits.
Overall this was my least liked food truck in Milwaukee and it will not be a hit with BBQ lovers or with the well traveled foodies from the Wauwatosa neighborhood in my opinion. Milwaukee BBQ trucks have some good street BBQ but this one is a swing and a miss because the quality and the freshness just was not there and I'm not saying it's complete garbage but it's not good BBQ. read more