The truck was opened by Belgian-native Anissa Benomar, who worked in a bakery in Brussels for over six years before deciding to move to Montreal. “Waffles were my specialty, and I loved making them. It smells good, it’s tender and it’s fresh.”
The app gives the location of the food truck, and tells the user whether it’s open or not. The thinking behind is it to be really easy to use and very reliable.
One thing we want is that when people come to Montreal and eat from one of these trucks, they’re going to know this is something special, something they can’t get anywhere else.
Montrealers will be able to get a taste of the food truck experience starting this summer.
So Montrealers, who take pride in being ahead of the trend, had to watch from afar as gourmands in New York, Vancouver, Portland and Los Angeles sampled cutting-edge cuisine out of tricked-out delivery trucks parked curbside
They want to avoid situations such as those seen in Ottawa, which opened the door wide to vendors in 1994. They had 105 sign up, resulting in too much competition and physical fights over prime spots. It took Ottawa and the law of supply and demand 10 years to cull them back to a manageable 36 sidewalk carts and 15 chip wagons.
The aim is for sure to have street food in the downtown area, but also in other boroughs in Montreal,” said Veronique Fournier, the commission’s VP. “Why not in the parks, why not by the river for instance, at cultural events? Now Montreal is joining the ranks of other cities that have street food.
For the first time since 1947, Montrealers could soon be able to enjoy a hot dog or taco served right out of a truck — legally.
Other specialties of the lunch counter are milk teas and Taiwanese-style shaved ices
Dispatch Coffee is on a mission. Though the fate of food trucks in Montreal may be up in the air, Dispatch is figuring out how to bring their coffee to the people, wherever and whenever they want it.
