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Food Trucks In Forest Hills

May 23, 2013 by FHC

by Tracy Johnke

Sweetz Cheesecake: The food truck that saved Thanksgiving.

Sweetz Cheesecake: The food truck that saved Thanksgiving.

‘Twas the day before Thanksgiving, and I had a problem. A dinner guest who had always provided the most delectable desserts had called to say he couldn’t make it after all. Now, I am proud of my Thanksgiving skills, but baking is not my forte. So it seemed a minor miracle when I spotted a food truck while walking home that day from the Van Ness Metro.

And not just any food truck: A Sweetz Cheesecake truck, parked across the street from Calvert Woodley. This was the first I’d seen in the neighborhood, and as it turns out, it wasn’t the last. Since the new year, many more food trucks have come Forest Hills to sell their wares.

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I asked the Sweetz operator why they had parked there, and he told me it was at Calvert Woodley’s request. However, Bob Starr, the manager of Calvert Woodley, tells me that the store has no connection to the trucks other than they like to park there.

Food trucks are a nomadic lot. A few keep to a regular schedule, but most of the time, you need to track their movements on Twitter and Facebook.

Van Ness food trucksTasty Fried DC broadcasts its trucks’ whereabouts at twitter.com/tastyfrieddc. In the background, Carnivore BBQ, which can be tracked at twitter.com/carnbbq

Which food trucks have you spotted in the neighborhood? Which do you recommend?

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Comments

  1. Marlene Berlin says

    May 23, 2013 at 9:17 am

    I am feeling more and more pressure to be on twitter. If you can’t follow the food trucks without it, what is an old fogy like me to do. Thanks for keeping us up-to-date in Forest Hills.

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