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If you're hungry and short of time in the nation's capital, food trucks are at the ready with a variety of quick and inexpensive dining options that include barbecue, Mexican food, pizza, empanadas, crab, lobster, and Asian fusion. Most of these trucks frequent the downtown area and are most popular during lunch hours.
CapMac
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If you're in the mood for the quintessential comfort food, macaroni and cheese, CapMac is for you. This food truck serves a variety of types of mac and cheese, salads, sandwiches, and desserts. The menu changes seasonally.
BBQ Bus Smokehouse
The roaming restaurant serves barbecue platters, sandwiches, beans, slaw, potato salad, bacon mashed potatoes, and vegetarian chili. Find this truck and fulfill that craving for barbecue. Many items on the menu are available by the pound to take home or back to the office, and catering is also available.
Big Cheese Truck
The Big Cheese Truck uses artisan cheeses from local farmers markets to make yummy grilled cheese sandwiches like Gruyere with asparagus on sourdough, Gouda and caramelized onions on multigrain, and chipotle cheddar, jalapeno, and guacamole on sourdough. Tomato soup and chips are popular sides.
DC Slices
A slice on the street is a wondrous thing. This mobile pizza kitchen roams through the city during lunch and late night, so you're never far from some delicious pizza, that standby staple for nearly any time of day. The pizza is made right in the truck, so it goes right from the oven to your mouth.
District Taco
Satisfy that taste for some Mexican food at the District Taco food truck. It serves Yucatan-style tacos, burritos, and quesadillas that are made fresh every day in Washington and Arlington, Virginia.
Feelin' Crabby
Feelin' Crabby serves up the real deal: The Crabwich is made of real jumbo lump crab and red pepper on a kaiser roll with lettuce and tomato. Crab salads, crab sliders, and crab chips are also on the menu.
Seoul Food DC
Seoul Food DC's menu offers a variety of Korean/Japanese recipes, including bibimbap, maki rolls, and kimchi quesadillas, plus an assortment of Asian fusion breakfast dishes. Ingredients include grass-fed beef, local chicken, and organic tofu. Seoul Food DC has trucks in Washington and Arlington.
Red Hook Lobster Pound DC
If you can't get away to Maine in the summertime, Red Hook Lobster Pound D.C.'s food truck brings it to the District with its Maine-style lobster roll, shrimp roll, New England clam chowder, whoopie pies, lobster Caesar salad, and Maine Root Soda.
DC Empanadas
DC Empanadas has just what its name advertises and offers beef, pork, chicken, and vegetarian varieties. They're all handmade and filled to the brim with local ingredients. Menu items rotate, so you never quite know what you're going to get.
