Food truck festival has lesser-known favorites among big-name vendors
At the ninth annual Columbus Food Truck Festival, name recognition alone should create long lines at food trucks such as Mikey’s Late Night Slice and Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams. But plenty of options exist among the 60 or so trucks serving food at the festival; here are five possibilities that you might not know about:
What: Columbus Food Truck Festival
Where: Scioto Mile, Downtown
Contact: columbusfoodtruck fest.com
Other attractions: live music, crafters, merchants
Times: 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday
Admission: free
perfecting the recipe since she emigrated from Vietnam to the U.S. in the early 1970s.
“I grew up on these egg rolls,” said Boley’s 45-yearold daughter, Linda Horne, who helps run the food truck. “She has a real passion for sharing them, and she would make them for every work function or event.”
The egg rolls are filled with seasoned pork, cabbage, celery, scallions and a special seasoning. Other items on the menu include original Rangoons (wontons stuffed with sweetened cream cheese and scallions) and apple pie Rangoons (with homemade apple pie filling).
Contact: 614-596-0720, www.shrimplips.com
Originally from Florida, the Carter family gives new meaning to the phrase “too many cooks in the kitchen.” Johnny and Doe own the Shrimp Lips Seafood and Chicken food truck in Columbus; one of their sons is the Crab Boss in Maryland; and their daughter is known as the Seafood Lady in Louisville, Kentucky.
The Carters borrow their daughter’s secret sauce.
“She’s trying to get us to change our name to hers, but we’ve made our own mark,” Doe Carter, 59, said.
That impact is because of a popular menu of fish, crab and shrimp combos. People are especially interested in the lobster fries, lobster tails and gator bites, she said. Contact: 614-205-9438, www.natessteamedbagels. com
When Nate Schott was attending Miami University in Oxford, he was a muchtoo-regular customer of the popular Bagel & Deli Shop near campus that served steamed-bagel sandwiches. He began to dream of opening his own steamed-bagel sandwich shop once he reached retirement age.
After losing his father to cancer after his college graduation, Schott began to participate in the Pelotonia bike races for cancer research. In 2017, to help raise money, Schott and some friends opened up a pop-up sandwich shop at a local brewery and donated their tip money to cancer research.
In August 2018, Schott, Juan Cortes-fontcuberta and Matt Zimmer, bought a food truck. Nate’s Steamed Bagels has creative offerings such as the Turkey Crunch, which is topped with Doritos, and the Spicy Mike, which includes fried chicken. The truck can be