Food trucks are big in Melbourne. You’ll discover food from Latin America, such as Dos Diablos Mobile Cantina and Taco Truck, to Gumbo Kitchen, a food truck serving culinary delights from New Orleans. With so many options, it’s hard to keep up where they’re located every night. Where The Truck At was set-up last year by Jack Barker, Tom Kinsman and Xavier Verhoeven to make things easier. The website is pretty simple: you just need to pick your city from the drop down box above the main map and if there are trucks out and about, they’ll show as pins on the map. With the help of crowd funding, the guys are now able to build an app that is beautiful, functional, and most importantly, gets you closer to eating amazing food from Australia’s many food trucks.

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Food trucks, despite being innately transient, are clearly here to stay. Some boast unique concepts with good food at digestible prices. Others, are overrated. And some are pushing the boundaries of creativity in the kitchen all from a moving vehicle.

Del Popolo in San Francisco is the most recent roving eatery to catch our eye. In fact, standing out is easy when you’re Del Popolo. This mobile pizzeria is housed in a twenty-foot, repurposed transatlantic shipping container with a wall of glass doors exposing its interior kitchen. What’s coming out of said shipping container are rustic, Neapolitan-inspired wood fire pizzas made with ingredients from small, generational producers. Their basic menu is rooted in three varieties: Margherita, Bianca (fresh mozzarella, grana padano, ricotta, garlic and basil), and spicy salami with kale, chilies, and mozzarella. Daily, enticing specials make appearances, like pancetta with braised escarole, pancetta and squash, or wild boar. (Hello, autumn.) Del Popolo dishes out lunch throughout San Francisco so hop on their website or their Twitter feed to track them down. And then shove some wild boar pizza served out of a shipping container in your face.

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While it seems the rest of the world has long-embraced the food truck concept, Sydney is a little slow on the uptake. But at last, it’s happening and just in time for the warmer months. One of the very first off the rank, Cantina Mobil, is a cool little truck that has been roving around Sydney’s northern beaches serving up simple yet delicious Mexican-inspired fare. Founded by Rode Vella and Stephanie Raco, they boast a pretty authentic menu of slow-cooked meats and desserts like mango pudding that’s great after a day on the sand.

And while you can still catch the original touring around Sydney, the team behind the truck has officially opened a fixed-address version too, permanently stopped in Darlinghurst. From the outside, it literally looks like a food truck has made its way into the shop – parked up, ready for business. (And no, it’s not the broken down original up on blocks….) The menu here, at Fixed Address, is identical to the more portable version, with a minor alteration or two. The shredded beef and chicken is delightful and the options of burritos, tortillas, and fillings from chipotle beef to achiote chicken more than satisfy. In a tongue-and-cheek sort of way, the fit-out has a minimalist and temporary vibe, making you feel like you were sitting outside. Hand-drawn illustrations on the walls are paired with a communal table dotted with cacti and old petrol cans act as stools. While this isn’t exactly destination dining (your meal arrives in a disposable cardboard container with all the haste of street food), it’s fun, tasty and easy – and even better after a late night out. It’s also a somewhat ironic way of helping promote the food truck concept which, hopefully, is in Sydney to stay.

Cantina at a Fixed Address
Shop 5 & 6, 113-115 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst, Sydney

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When another food truck slinging tacos and burgers hits the streets of New York or San Francisco, it can easily go unnoticed. But in Paris? Mon dieu! Oui, mesdames and messieurs, the food truck has crossed the pond and is now happily chugging along those infamous Parisian streets where baguettes and foie gras once ruled the day.

Founded by Canadian-American, San Francisco-born Jordan Feilders, Cantine California serves up authentic burgers, milkshakes, cupcakes, pancakes, tacos, burritos, and other Baja California-inspired eats to a growing following. Armed with a professional kitchen in the truck and two chefs at the helm – with enough training to pass any French culinary test – Cantine California aims to bring together quality French products with American street food traditions. All ingredients are French, bien sur, organic, and either made in house or especially for the truck. So are the Parisians buying in to this burger-touting truck? Mais oui.

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I’m obsessed with the La Copine Brunch Truck. This place offers gourmet, and I mean GOURMET, breakfast and lunch food (extremely reasonably priced, I might add) out of a cute truck in Northern Liberties. To top it off, there’s picnic seating, with tents in the case of rain.

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