Mobile food vans are nothing new. But a mobile food van that looks like a big stereo is pretty cool.
Raph owns the Beatbox Kitchen and serves up burgers and fries in locations trackable only via Twitter. He pulled up in front of the Lamington Drive gallery opening of Risographica! on a wet evening and I was his first customer.
There are only three items on the menu – Raph beef burger with salad and tangy mango ($11), a portabello mushroom burger with the same salad and tangy mayo ($11) and hand cut chips with tangy mayo or Annie’s tomato relish ($5).
The burgers are pretty good – grilled to order with crisp salad ingredients, although personally I think not as good as gourmet burger chain Grill’d. I highly recommend ordering the relish with your cone of fries – Annie is a family friend of Raph’s and she makes huge jars of the relish in Seaford only for her family and Beatbox Kitchen.
Yum, really craving a burger today for no apparent reason. Quickly clicked through to Twitter but they haven’t put up any current coordinates boo – oh well, all good things require waiting!
Joyce, Tis a shame he didn’t have his Eddy Current ice-cream sandwich. That was a winner at Meredith Music Festival last year.
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| February 8, 2010, 6:00 pm
Hi Dave
Eddy Current ice cream sandwich?? Sounds awesome – I will have to follow the van’s next outing to make sure I try it.
Jetsetting Joyce
Hmm yum yum! I really wish we have that Beatbox Kitchen in here! I am pretty sure customers from our place will surely line up! That fries made my stomach growl! Aargh! That’s my favorite food in the whole wide universe!!
nice post, that is an awesome van and the food looks great as well.
I’ve also seen them sell chicken schnitzel wraps (really good) and even breakfast piadina’s at Golden Plains.
Also not as good as grill’d? Taste the actual meat grill’d put in their burgers, it’s disgusting unless it’s ‘drowned out’ on your palate by the sauces. Tastes like cardboard…
Hi Baggins
Oh cool – I’ll have to lobby for them to return the chicken schnitzel wraps and breakfast piadinas. As for the comparisons with Grill’d, I’m going to pass the buck and say that RM was the one who told me that Grill’d was better, and he has one of their burgers quite often so I guess he’d know…
Jetsetting Joyce