Good Food Here food carts at SE 43^rd & Belmont • fifty-licks.com

Stop #3 along our bakery crawl was Fifty Licks Ice Cream, which was a happily unexpected stop (as The Sugar Cube which was our original third destination was closed for a private event).  Fifty Licks is another awesome spot to check out in the Good Food Here food cart pod (I am quickly realizing that location is one-stop shopping for tasty desserts!). 

Given that the day of our tour de dessert was about 95 degrees, I was beyond excited to get some ice cream.  More excitement came when I noticed their sign that read “Ice Cream Tacos!”  Whatever that was, I wanted one.  The friendly girl working high up in the Fifty Licks truck answered my question by telling me to “first go over to the Euro Trash food cart right behind you and he’ll make you a waffle ‘taco’ then come back over here and we’ll load it up with the ice cream of your choosing.”  Sounded pretty great to me. Continue Reading...

Good Food Here food carts at SE 43^rd & Belmont • sweetpeasbrulee.com

Stop #2 along our bakery crawl took place at the Good Food Here food cart pod.  I had heard about a little place called Sweet Pea’s Brulee, which serves homemade crème brulee… from a food cart… This I had to try.  Their menu was filled with lots of tasty options, all of which are housemade: salted caramels, S’mores with handcrafted marshmallows, their own Sweet Pea’s Fudgesicle, and a selection of crème brulees with rotating flavors like coffee cream or the traditional vanilla using their own Tahitian vanilla extract (yes, they seriously have their own handmade unfiltered vanilla bean extract).  I decided to go with the Marshmallow Topped Crème Brulee, their traditional vanilla flavor topped with their homemade marshmallow (it was as incredible as it sounds).  Continue Reading...