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“The Lunch Truck at the North Fork Table and Inn”

Occasion:	Cuisine:	Area:	Cost:	Rating:
Lunch/Takeout	New American	Suburbs	Cheap Eats	Off the Charts

k! I mean, I have always had a soft spot for Bruce’s, but you can’t eat turkey and Swiss on rye every day (well, I suppose you technically can, but why would you want to?) And Salamander’s is all well and good, but that’s more of a fried chicken spot.

Want a lobster roll? Before the Lunch Truck you were out of luck. Now you can get yours (all lusciously sweet wild caught meat) with ice-cold ginger lemonade (pictured below).

Want a pulled pork roll? They've got that too, made from Berkshire pork, stewed and sauced so its meaty juices drip down your chin. This pulled pork is impossibly good, a tangle of meat thick with sweet spice that’s hoisted into a buttered brioche bun and served with a lightning bright smoky chipotle tomatillo sauce ($8.75).

The menu also includes a fantastic all beef artisan hot dog from Hartman’s served on a Blue Duck Bakery brioche roll for all of four bucks that you can fix up with your choice of chorizo chili, homemade sauerkraut, bread and butter pickle relish, or apple cider vinegar glazed onions. The sandwich of the day changes often, but it was a thinly sliced steak sandwich with chili and lime on the weekend we were up. There’s also soup (organic spicy chicken posole) and a daily seasonal veg sandwich on griddled ciabatta. Claudia’s cookies are for dessert, naturally.

Friends, I hate to tell you to drive 100 miles for a Lunch Truck, but I am going to suggest it. Really. You will agree that it is worth the LIE. I just love this truck! There is a nice alley behind my apartment in Brooklyn, and I’d love it if they’d park there in the off-season, but apparently they are busy year-round out there. Boo Hoo.

Obviously, there’s more to do in the North Fork than eat at the Lunch Truck. While you’re there, you can hit one of the little beaches, check out the cute shops in Greenport and Mattituck, and definitely have dinner at the North Fork Table and Inn, and Luce & Hawkins, too. Why not! And, of course, spend some time drinking wine. Croteaux is a new favorite, for their stunning Provencal garden for tasting and all-afternoon drinking, but my old favorites, Lieb, Paumanok, Bedell, Corey Creek, and Shinn are all still doing their thing, making great wine that you really just want to drink a lot of.

Enjoy!

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Posted: August 5, 2011

Other restaurants in Suburbs :
+ Gaia in Greenwich CT   + North Fork Table and Inn   + Izakaya and the New Water Club in Atlantic City   + La Estacion (Fajardo, Puerto Rico) by special guest reviewer Kathleen Squires   + The Lunch Truck at the North Fork Table and Inn