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The food truck selection is always decent at Jason Boso's Truck Yard, Dallas' first permanent food-truck park, on Greenville Avenue. The problem -- for the food trucks, mostly, and also for my cholesterol -- is that you have to walk through a cloud of cheesesteak vapor to get to the trucks.
And once the smell hits your face, you're not making it to those trucks.
At the front of the Truck Yard sits the shack that houses a bar and small restaurant, where cheesesteaks are turned out by the second. The smell is intoxicating, and it's mostly because Boso's team works with some pretty great ingredients.
Nine times out of 10 when you order a cheesesteak you get frozen, pre-sliced meat. Sometimes you even get that processed stuff called Steak-umms, which is awful. But at the Truck Yard you'll see a beef rib roast up on the meat slicer, with ribbons of meat cascading from its end. It doesn't get any more serious than slicing meat for a cheesesteak right off the rib roast.
Get yours with onions and peppers and always choose the Whiz. This is the height of blue-collar food. A few hits from the cheese pump and the melted goo descends down through the folds of steak, all the way down into the bun, saturating everything in its path.
Nope, you're not making it to the food trucks today. You may never. Dial 2 to speak with the pharmacy.
No. 100: Pastrami Egg Rolls at Blind Butcher No. 99: Chicken-fried Steak at Tom's Burgers and Grill No. 98: Pasta with Uni Butter at Nonna No. 97: Camarón en Agua Chile at La Palapas No. 96: The Wings at Lakewood Landing No. 94: Chicken Kebab at Afrah No. 93: Trompo Tacos at Bachman Lake No. 92: Fish and Chips at 20 Feet No. 91: Canelés at Village Baking Co. No. 90: Banh Mi from La Me No. 88: The Burgers at Off-Site Kitchen No. 87: The White Album at Spoon No. 86: Ramen at Tei An No. 85: Tacos at Revolver Taco No. 84: Stuffed Chicken Wings at Sakhuu No. 83: Korean Fried Chicken at Bonchon No. 82: Grilled Branzino at Tei Tei Robata No. 81: The Toddfather at Cattleack Barbecue No. 80: The Biryanis at Chennai No. 79: Shish Tawook at Qariah No. 78: Arepes at Zaguan No. 77: Goat Momo at Everest Restaurant No. 76: Steak Tartar at Gemma No. 75: Escabeche at Joyce and Gigi's No. 74: Spicy Fish in Oil at Royal Sichuan No. 73: Pupusas at La Pasadita No. 72: The Kathi Roll at Simply Dosa No. 71: The Chicken Wings at Teppo
