Pitch Magazine predicts top Kansas City food trends of 2012

[2roadsdiverge]

http://www.pitch.com/fatcity/archives...

1. We’ll go from Groupon to Youpon [personalized deals direct from restaurants
]2. The food-truck herd will thin
3. You will eat a vegetarian dish and forget you love meat.
4. Kansas will keep getting sister restaurants from KCMO
5. More pop-ups are on the way
6. More celebrity chefs are coming to town
7. Kansas City will get another beer garden.
8. Coffee nerds are the new beer geeks.
9. The deli makes a comeback.
10. The noodle-bar trend finally arrives in Kansas City.

Thoughts?

[chileheadmike]

8. Coffee nerds are the new beer geeks.

Cool, I've been a coffee nerd for a few years but still drink cheap beer. Glad there's hope for me.

As for the food trucks, I imagine it's difficult to sell food out of a truck window during a KC winter.

[Teague]

Isn't the problem with food trucks here more of a where to park/regulatory problem?

[2roadsdiverge]

Last fall I remember there was supposed to be a "food truck fair" in Westport. My girlfriend and I went down there to see but it was really sad. There were maybe 10 trucks and all seemed really mundane. We were both disappointed. I did have a couple of nice tacos from a pushcart though.

Edit: here's a story from Pitch about a controversy surrounding the Dog Nuvo truck at this event.

http://www.pitch.com/fatcity/archives...

[chileheadmike]

I've only been to one truck ever, Port Fonda for tripe tacos and chilequiles. Really good, but I can't see standing outside and eating that in January.

[stellamystar]

And I think Port Fonda is moving into Westport storefront - so no more truck.(well, maybe sometimes?)
I like the Snow Cone lady, Fresher Than Fresh.