Beat Street Street Food — Restaurant in Wilmington

This eclectic offering from the True Blue group offers a killer menu but its logistics leave something to be desired. First, the good: Beat Street has an impressive array of handhelds from around the world. A half-dozen varieties of tacos share menu space with burgers, kabobs, tortas, and ssam. Choosing a side will be a hair-tearing endeavor as ramen, bacon cheddar mac, and truffle fries (with lemon and parmesan!) make for an extremely difficult decision.

Beat Street is co-located with Alcove Beer Garden, and there is plenty of seating inside and out. That capaciousness is a double-edged sword, however, as you may need to listen from a distance and over music for your number to be called out. You’ll also be in for a wait (30+ minutes in our case): perhaps due to understaffing, the kitchen here is slow.

That said, the food here was as good as it sounded. We went with barbacoa tacos and pork belly steamed buns with the aforementioned truffle fries. The fries were addictive, and both handhelds were well-sauced (birria/avocado crema and hoisin/ginger scallion, respectively) and flavorful. The pork was a touch dry but not unpleasantly so, and it was satisfyingly crispy. Prices ($12 and $14) were reasonable.

Beat Street’s tantalizing menu will make you hungry, and your stomach will be happy by the end, but the in-between may try...

We are ao disappointed because we had been told by so many people how great the food was at Beat Street. I’ll say, the food was good, especially the street corn and the Brussels sprouts, but the service left so much to be desired. The person who accompanied us to the restaurant got her food and ate it, and it was another 20 minutes before our food arrived. We were number 16, and the call for tickets had reached 22 before we finally got our food. There was nothing special to our order… There were only two of us. I ordered the Al Pastore tacos… Which were correct with the chunk of pineapple and all, we ordered street corn, and my partner ordered a sandwich on the Himalayan roll. We paid $40 for that, and there was no apology of any kind from the staff regarding the amount of time it took for us to get our food.. only a comment that we ordered “a lot” (we didn’t). It’s a shame because the vibe is cool and the menu’s ideas are interesting. The food is good (not great) but not worth $20 a plate for street food and an hour wait. The food trucks are better and more efficient and affordable in Nashville TN, where we’re from. Would absolutely...

This is a really cool place located in the cargo district. The owners of Beat Street are the same as the True Blue restaurant in Mayfaire. Beat Street is exactly as what you would expect from the name. It is really damn good street food that is hard to beat. See what I did there. Lol. Anyway so the atmosphere is a five. There is a lot of seating inside and outside. There is even seating upstairs in the box cars. The food is delicious. We ordered the Kai Yang Chicken Kabob & 2 of the specials that were offered that day “WALKING TACO” & the “BRATWURST”. The Kabob had a great flavor and was cooked perfect. The Ginger Kimchi salad had some heat but not a lot. It was a very balanced taste. The walking Taco was a very playful & creative way of putting together a really good Dorito’s version of loaded nachos. It had cool ranch doritos, Queso, Taco beef, lettuce. cilantro & pickled red onion. The bratwurst was very tasty although ours did not have any of the beer cheese. It was suppose to come with Stone ground mustard, sauerkraut + Beer cheese. It was still very good. This is a must try if you are visiting or live...