Ask The Critic: Where My Buns At?

"Buns on Wheels was mentioned today on the radio. I went to your web site to find a location, but no location was given. Perhaps thousands of other hungry Seattle people are also looking for the same information and are experiencing the same frustration. Why not just tells us, all of us, where Buns on Wheels is located? It could be good
for business. It could be good for my belly."

Good for business. Good for my belly. You ever thought of getting into the advertising game, Don?

So here's the thing about Buns. For those of you who read the original post about it, it should be obvious that Buns is a food truck, and therefore exists with no fixed address. Like Bruce Banner or Kwai Chang Caine, it wanders the highways and byways, looking for adventure and people who need help--in the form of cheeseburgers.

Buns can be found in several ways. First, the truck itself is equipped with a GPS and (soon) it will be broadcasting its location live to anyone who cares to keep very careful track of such things. Then there's the calendar on the Buns website which shows a list of some (but not all) of the places that the Buns truck will be in the coming weeks. There's the Buns Facebook page which gives locations. You could always just drive around shouting its name out the window of your car and hope you get lucky.

But the easiest way to find out where Buns is going to be on any given day, Don (and I grant you, many days still see the truck nowhere at all), is to suck it up, grit your teeth and just get on the Twitter. Buns has a feed. It's updated with some regularity. And just a quick perusal of recent posts tells me that the truck was at the Bellevue Barnes & Noble on September 28 and was cruising around Northgate and Alki Beach earlier in the month. I also know that the guys in the truck are planning on rolling out a new burger tomorrow--"Rogue Creamery blue, jammy onions and arugula," according to the tweet. And apparently, "it rocks."

So Don, while I would love to turn this entire blog into a massive food-truck-tracking operation where me and the staff did nothing all day but drive around town hunting up food trucks and stuffing ourselves with cheeseburgers, tacos and what-not, I can't do that. For one, I'd be fired. For two, I'd die of happiness (and probably fatness) inside of a month. So if you're looking for up-to-date info on where any particular truck is slinging on any particular day, I would just make for their website and/or Twitter feed.

It's a modern world now. And the internets and food trucks were just made for each other.