The Sesame Seed

​Mei Liu had always been a home cook, but a few years ago, she made her first foray into a professional kitchen, starting a small Chinese restaurant with a group of friends in Austin, Texas.

Not long after, Mei, along with her daughter Grace, and son, Gary, drew up plans to start a food truck -- but before putting it into action, they decided they had to leave the Lone Star State.

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​December means latkes to most of the people in this country who celebrate Hanukah (and even to many happy eaters who don't), but the simple yet delicious -- and infinitely variable -- potato pancakes are pretty good the rest of the year as well.

At least that's what the owners of Latke Love are hoping. The farmers' market-style vendor opened for business in May and spent the summer cooking latkes at various markets and other spots, including City Park Jazz and the Denver Beer Co.

And although Steve Shander, his wife, Tina, and his sister, Dina, who also run a catering business, can't use their ovens nearly as much during the colder months, they still hit the indoor Denver Urban Homesteading Market most weekends and offer latkes to go.

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​Since it motored into Denver earlier this month, Biker Jim's fancy new food truck, which he plans to take national, has been sequestered in a secret location somewhere in the city, but on Sunday, he'll introduce it to Denverites for the first time in conjunction with his latest appearance on the flat-screen.

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Oskar Blues

​Taprooms and food trucks are a perfect match: the taprooms need good grub to feed their customers, and the food trucks need to find good spots with a lot of hungry people.

Over the past few years, it's a combination that's worked well for more than a dozen breweries in Denver, Boulder and Fort Collins, who bring in trucks serving everything from pizza and Korean barbecue to burgers, arepas and banh mi.

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Biker Jim now has two hot dog carts, a brick-and-mortar and a new food truck that will go national.

​The text from Biker Jim simply read: "Tired. Taking a nap." The sultan of sausages and high-priest of hot dogs had just returned from a food truck show in Las Vegas, where he pimped frankfurters from the kitchen of the very first Biker Jim's food truck -- which, if Jim has his way, will soon be franchised all across the country.

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​While the Justice League of Street Food, Denver's original coalition of food trucks, held its last bash of the year (and possibly ever) last weekend, and Civic Center Eats, the city's summer gathering of food trucks at Civic Center Park, has gone dormant until next year, another gang of food truck slingers is gearing up to hustle grub from the asphalt.

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Lori Midson

​Season two of The Great Food Truck Race, which rolled into Denver in May, is currently airing on the Food Network, and on Sunday night, the Denver episode took center stage, spotlighting a slew of local food trucks, recognizable landmarks and markets and familiar faces, including the Steuben's truck, Marczyk Fine Foods, Washington Park, John Elway -- who issued the requisite roadblock challenge to the participating trucks -- and chef Frank Bonanno, who granted one truck, Lime, $200 in seed money after the truck's cooks whipped up the best dish using wild mushrooms foraged in Evergreen.

And to celebrate season two, the Food Network announced a sweepstakes whereby you can nominate your favorite food truck; the ultimate victor in the competition -- the truck with the most votes -- gets $10,000 and the opportunity for airtime on season three of The Great Food Truck Race. The nomination process has come and gone, but from now until September 12, you can still vote for the truck that you think slings the best grub.

And there are numerous contenders from Colorado:

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Lori Midson

According to Sue Feniger, Biker Jim's elk-and-jalapeno dog is the best thing she's ever eaten

​It's good to be Biker Jim, who just keeps expanding his fifteen minutes of fame. First, there was Anthony Bourdain, who featured Biker Jim's 16th Street Mall cart on an episode of No Reservations, in which the acerbic, lanky, big-footed chef, nomad and book author found "enlightenment" in Jim's swollen sausages.

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​The latest food truck to hit Denver will either have you shaking your head because the craze has gone mainstream, or nodding it for the same reason.

On Thursday, Aramark Corporation, which runs the food venues at Coors Field, rolled out Wok in the Park, a truck serving noodle bowls and egg rolls on the first-level concourse. It's the first food truck to be stationed inside a major sports venue in the country.

Although its mostly permanent position near Section 150 sort of defeats the purpose of having a a mobile food vendor, Aramark Corporation regional director Richard Hesse says the goal is to offer "something that is cool and something that is different and something that the fans will find interesting and fun."

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Lori Midson

​When we broke the news yesterday that Dylan Moore was putting the brakes on the Little Orange Rocket, his mobile meals on wheels, several Cafe Society readers wondered if this was the beginning of the end to Denver's street food movement. Just like restaurants, food trucks come and go, but one truck -- Crazy Good -- whose tagline was "local, organic, sustainable," shut off its engine before it ever broke a sweat, and the tricked-out truck, which currently sits forlorn in a parking lot on Morrison Road, is for sale, albeit for a hefty price.

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