Tacos in a Van – Creating Sense of Place through Food

After having some great food from trucks in both the US and in China this past year, I really would like to see this happen in Indianapolis. Possibly we could incorporate it as part of the Market Square Area redevelopment, the City Market, North of South, or at least as part of the Superbowl preparation. Indianapolis already seems to lack dining options in comparison to other cities its size. While most people that I know who visit Indianapolis are impressed with the city, the one thing I hear regularly is the lack of a variety of dining options. Although Harry Izzy’s and St. Elmo's have become a mainstay and are great places, they are not meant for every night. For those conventioneers and visitors that stay for a longer period of time, we need to increase these options. One of the potential solutions would be to increase the volume of the street vendor/food trucks within the downtown market.

For those of us who have eaten out of a truck at Pop’s burgers in Oklahoma City, or West Coast Taco’s in CA, it seems to me that if they can do it in Oklahoma City, we can figure out how to do it in Indianapolis. Here are just a few other examples I found:

Houston
Chow
New York
GQ Article from 2009