A quesadilla from Thatsalata and Corned Beef King’s towering sandwich. The two trucks are midday MoCo mainstays. Photographs by Dakota Fine.
“There’s nothing here,” says Dan Schiff, an office worker in Rockville.
When it comes to quality, quick-service, non-chain eateries, lunch options are few around the stretch of Fishers Lane where Schiff works. That’s why he e-mailed Sub Urban Bros.—one of the handful of food trucks roaming Montgomery County—and asked the mobile sandwich maker to stop by his complex. Now the stop is a regular part of the route for the Bros., who say they serve hundreds in the area.
The number of MoCo food trucks may never catch up to the District or Northern Virginia—truck owners cite costly commissary kitchen fees and a lack of foot traffic as deterrents—but that doesn’t mean they’re inferior in quality. From juicy corned-beef sandwiches to thick shakes and fresh lobster rolls, we found a host of delicious midday options in Maryland’s gourmet vending scene. Check out our slideshow of offerings from four of the savory pioneers who hit the streets of Bethesda, Rockville, Silver Spring, and Kensington days, nights, and weekends to meet the demands of hungry Marylanders.
Still hungry? Check out the MoCo vendors peddling dessert. That treat fleet includes the newly opened Cupcake Blvd. and Cravin Cookies.
Anna Spiegel covers the dining and drinking scene in her native DC. Prior to joining Washingtonian in 2010, she attended the French Culinary Institute and Columbia University’s MFA program in New York, and held various cooking and writing positions in NYC and in St. John, US Virgin Islands.
