Fancy Food Truck: The Beacon Bite Delights for Sit Down or Take-Away

July 6, 2015 Katie Hellmuth

If you are an avid reader of the Fancy Nancy series, you should know that "fancy", when used to describe The Beacon Bite's ever-changing menu, is a fancy word for "delicious, exciting, unexpected."

The bright red food truck named The Beacon Bite, took over the empty corner lot at 416 Main Street with its full-menu mobile food business concept. It put out a few picnic tables with brightly colored umbrellas to shelter people on foot who have not been deterred by this season's rain. Speaking of rain, the rain is adding to the lush menu of The Beacon Bite, who sources produce and meat from neighboring farms like Sprout Creek for hanger steak and Common Ground for dill and nasturtiums, and businesses like Drink More Good for the purest sugar and herb soda.

The Beacon Bite, the big red food truck.

Driving by the big red truck with white lights creating ambiance was totally different than sitting down at a picnic table eating our selections. A Pandora or Spotify list of Leonard Cohen calm but deeply inspired music permeates from the speakers somewhere inside the truck, making the dining experience all the more artful.

Delightful dining experience in the parking lot.
Just like if you were ordering from a lot in Maine.

So let's get to the food: first of all, I ordered for myself and two of my small kids. It was 5:30pm and we had just come from the Beacon Pool and we were very hungry and not functioning at full capacity. The menu is a foodie's paradise, which for kids can be tricky. We went with the potatoe wedge fries (total hit, should have ordered two), fried chicken (another hit after I told the kids it was chicken tenders), and the cabbage wraps which my daughter faked me out on, claiming for 2 weeks that she now likes salad. I ate them all.

Some of the best fries in Beacon. Big chunks of salt.
BYOK. Bring Your Own Ketchup, if you're into that.

If you are a clean eater, you will love The Beacon Bite. If you are a vegetarian or a carnivore, you will also love Beacon Bite. The menu keeps you on your toes not only because it is fresh, but because it changes weekly. True to the name, the portions are bite-sized. The fried chicken, for example, was served sliced into several thin pieces with chopsticks.

Fried chicken served with chopsticks.
If ordering for kids, tell them it's chicken nuggets.

Drink-wise, you'll need to wait for your beer or wine and have it later at Draught or Oak Vino, as there is no beer here. But there is Drink More Good soda root beer and other flavors like lemon lime, made fresh on the spot just for you. If you are a ketchup lover, you will need to BYOK (bring your own ketchup). Living in a foodie town has started to mean that restaurants who value real food also don't offer ketchup, or they make it themselves (The Hop), which for kids is a little...different. So pack some ketchup packets in your purse or pocket.

Mama ate all 3 of these cabbage rolls.

And yes, there is a pie woman selling pies out of an ice cream bicycle stand in the corner of the lot near the side walk called Beacon Pie Company. More on that to come...(just needed to buy another slice of salted honey butter pie for pictures).

Otherwise, enjoy your meal with freshly cut flowers from a local farm and "lettuce" know what you loved! Generally, Beacon Bite is open from Thursday - Sunday, and you should check their Facebook page for current hours, as they vary per day.