10 Killer Food Truck Designs

Photo: IMGUR

Technically the mobile outpost of Fayetteville grilled cheese maven Hammontree’s, the Grillenium Falcon has somehow avoided the wrath of Lucas, possibly because of the undeniable awesomeness of numbers like the Cheebacca (sharp cheddar, a house blend of cheese, bacon, pulled pork, grilled onion, and garlic cilantro on sourdough).

Photo: ROVING MAMMOTH

Roving Mammoth lives on — wait for it — Mammoth Mountain, where it roves around the slopes feeding hungry, hungry skiers whatever they want, so long as what they want is burritos.

Photo: DOS CHINOS

If you see dancing skeletons on the streets of Orange County, it’s probably just a couple of out-of-work models…unless they’re on the side of a truck, in which case it’s probably Dos Chinos, which cooks up all sorts of pan-Asian merriment, like Vietnamese pork and Korean-Mexican beef.

Photo: SO-CAL TACOS

So-Cal Tacos is a fish taco specialist that’s based in Dallas — a land-locked city — but that doesn’t stop this Hobie board-equipped woodie-esque truck from making a sea of awesomeness, including panko-battered fish numbers like the San Diego Classic, which is perfect for a hot Dallas Summer, Padre.

Photo: EAST SIDE KING

While Austin’s East Side King is known for Asian awesomeness like a slow-poached egg and sweet chili sauce-topped grilled and glazed pork shoulder, it’s their artwork that really stands out, since it was done by Peelander-Z, which is literally a “Japanese Action Comic Punk Band,” and less literally R. Kelly’s 2012 Zoolander remake.

Photo: REBECCA WILLIAMSON/BEST AUSTIN FOOD TRUCKS

In Austin, Jalopy Rotisserie and Press is a) a brilliant sandwich-making trailer towed by a semi, and b) hand-painted by a virtual army of artists, including one that just showed up one day, painted for about six hours, and was never heard from again.

Photo: MAXIMUS MINIMUS

Rain or shine (but mostly rain), Seattle’s Maximus Minimus brings home the bacon — almost literally, with its pork (and chicken) sandwiches — from a truck sculpted into the shape of Anthony Weiner a giant pig.

Because climbing all those hills in SF imbues its residents with a certain incurable need for pizza, the dude behind Del Popolo went all-out with his build, mating a semi-truck with a shipping container (take that, NatGeo!) and outfitting it with 1,500lbs’ worth of glass doors that swing out, so you can see the 5,000lb wood-burning pizza oven.

This post was written by Aaron Miller and originally appeared under the title The 10 coolest-looking food trucks in the USA at Thrillist, a Matador syndication partner.