Next week a film crew will immortalize the Coast's roving purple taco truck, Feastro the Rolling Bistro, for a Food Network program about North America's best street food.
Feastro co-owner Paul Fenton said he and his business partner, classically-trained chef Steve Myddleton, were delighted when they got confirmation a couple weeks ago that their purple truck will be featured in Eat St., a program about "North America's tastiest, messiest, and most irresistible street food," which is set to air in the spring of 2011.
"It'll be additional profile for us and additional profile for the Coast," Fenton said.
Fenton said he and Myddleton bought the mobile restaurant truck, previously a Tofino-based restaurant called Sobo last June, brought it up to the Coast and opened for business on Canada Day 2009. Initially, Feastro operated in Gibsons, but this summer it operated at the south end of Davis Bay, thanks to an eight-month lease that wraps up at the end of October. The business also features a satellite operation that allows it to cater weddings and other events, such as the Festival of the Written Arts.
Feastro's emphasis is on fresh, local, organic food. Top-selling dishes include bonzai prawns, crab and shimp cakes, fish and chips, and tuna carpaccio.
Fenton said all of Feastro's food is prepared on site, thanks to the purple truck being equipped as "a full commercial kitchen on wheels" - complete with a char broiler, six-burner stove, deep fryer, sinks and full refrigeration.
Fenton said he and Myddleton would love to see the community come down to Davis Bay for a bite during filming Tuesday, Sept. 28, which is expected to run between 11:30 a.m. and 3 p.m.
"We're not open to the public typically on Tuesdays, so that's why we need as much support as we can get," he said.
Besides featuring Feastro's culinary creations, the Paperny Films-produced program, which is looking to be "your roadmap to the ultimate street food experience," will cover everything from Tijuana-style tacos served out of an Airstream trailer to pizzas baked in a brick oven on wheels to classic dogs with all the fixins to sirloin burgers slathered in bacon jam.
