The Lime Truck Southern California — Restaurant in Irvine

Somebody's got a case of the Mondays! "I love Monday's", said no one ever, but having a VIP event on a Monday makes it a lot better. Oh that and Monday Night Football. You down with TLT? Yeah, you know me! So I learned that TLT are the letters for The Lime Truck. I'm such a noob! I still have not tried The Lime Truck until today. It's strange because the truck has showed up outside of my apartment and workplace many times, but I was always out sick or traveling when this happened. I promise I was not avoiding you TLT. I finally popped my TLT cherry! :)

Thank you TLT for such a great event. This is better than happy hour with beer and spiked Limeade! I am glad that I was able to sample this place because I was looking for a fast casual food restaurant for a pre-movie dinner at the Irvine Spectrum. Stupid food court is closed and I don't always have 2 or 3 hours to wait for a larger restaurant such as Yard House or Cheesecake Factory.

Here are few items we got to enjoy:

Califlower Ceviche with chips- I know there is no meat in here but this stuff is the shiznit. It doesn't taste like ceviche to me without fish or shrimp, but it's like a delicious salsa substitute.

Braised pork with noodles- believe me that I'm making the Homer Simpsons salivation face. I will be coming back for more of this.

Lamb Slider- good stuff!

Short Rib Quesadilla Wedges- not a fan of most quesadilla but you had me at rib meat.

Pork Belly Nachos- not explanation needed. So good, but getting full at this point.

Lime Panna Cotta- a great desert to...

TLT Food originated from Lime Food Truck.

They had been going everywhere to introduce their pork belly taocs and then after their foods were familar with a lot of people.

Finally they have opened their own restaurants.

They have been used "Familiar Marketing".

Try to eat PBAT Sandwich included Braised pork belly and pork belly taco. Those are really tasty.

*. Familiar Marketing:

One guy who has been operating Okonomiyaki(Japanese style Pizza) Restaurant wanted to promote his restaurant and his menu but operation was not good.

He tried to use " buy one, get one free" method and hired young waitress etc., but business was slack.

One day, he ran into one delivery man and then he realized how he can market his restaurant well.

He has tried to put his restaurant name and menu on his delivery boxes and then he has been wandering around crowded places.

After that many people recognized his restaurant name and menu and get familar with that menu and restaurant.

People have started to think that restaurant is very famos and popular because they can see delivery man every day and many crowded places.

After that, many people have been visiting that restaurant and then he can open many branches in Japan.

We can call it " Familiar Marketing" like Effel Tower effect.

*Okonomiyaki is a Japanese savoury pancake containing a variety of ingredients. The name is derived from the word okonomi, meaning "what you like" or "what you want", and yaki meaning "grilled" or...

We were excited to try The Lime Truck and happy they had a presence, parked in the food truck village at the recent Tequila festival we attended. Of the three trucks that comprised the "village" The Lime Truck was the only one that had a vegetarian option. Sometimes as vegetarians you need to scope out food options in advance just to make sure you won't starve at an event and we were excited to see they had 2 vegetarian tacos on their menu...a potato taco, and their "Trippy Mushroom."

Unfortunately, after arriving they were only offering the potato taco (plus their meat offerings.) and the menu seemed a bit more limited than what is displayed on their website. That's okay, we're fans of tortillas and potatoes, so we plugged ahead and each got 2 potato tacos.

They were okay. We liked that they used full little round potatoes in the taco...that was a unique take. The accompanying veg in it, onions, jalapeno and a little more gave it a nice bite. But both my wife and I felt it was a bit sparse and could have used a little more in terms of filling, and/or some kind of cream or sauce on it to round it out.

So we didn't starve or dislike what we ate...but it didn't live up to the exciting vegetarian option we thought we might get from an award-winning food truck.

The folks making the food were awfully nice and the prep was quick.

We wish they'd had their full menu available so we could have tried the...