Location: Mobile Food Truck in the Salinas area (this visit was outside of Post No Bills in Sand City
Date of visit: 2021 May 7
I am originally from New Jersey which is the Best Pizza State in America. I have high expectations when it comes to pizza but I realize it is basically impossible to get great pizza west of the Delaware River. Therefore, when I get pizza in California I need to accept that it won’t be great. It might be good enough, but it won’t be like one of the finest pizzas in the world that you can get at many pizzerias in the Garden State.
That said, a good pizza is still good enough and just because I can’t get the best pizza I am not going to bite off my nose to spite face and I will still eat and enjoy pizzas out in the land of avocados. When I saw that Post No Bills had a wood-fired oven pizza food truck (Actually a tent with a pizza oven on a trailer) outside of their place, I decided to give it a try.
I ended up getting a sausage pizza. The sausage was pretty good. The rest of the pizza was, as expected, not New Jersey pizza but for California I was quite pleased with the combination of dough, cheese, and sauce. I wish the pizza was a bit larger tough. Overall, I was satisfied and I wouldn’t hesitate to get another pizza from Central Coastan Pizza. It was tasty after a long week and I enjoyed it with a craft beer or two from Post No Bills.
On Wednesday, March 3, 2021 I went to Post No Bills Craft Beer House in Sand City but this is not a review of the best beer bar in the area. If you haven’t been to Post No Bills and you like beer, you should check it out. They have a nice selection of beer on tap (including almost always a quality German beer) and a good bottle selection. They also usually have a cider on tap if you are gluten free. While they do not sell hard liquor, I believe they also have wine.
Before the pandemic Post No Bills would often, but not always, have a food truck parked out front because they don’t have a kitchen. You could also bring your own food. However, with the current restrictions requiring them to sell food if they want to be open for anything besides to-go, they need to have a food truck in order to serve beer for the patio. One thing that is nice is they have a variety of food trucks and not the same one every day. I don’t think any of them have been bad, but of course it always depends what kind of mood you are in which ones are better.
On this day, they had a new-to-them food truck: La Papa Baked Potatoes & Roasted Corn. I have never had food from this food truck elsewhere so I decided to give it a try: after all I am a big fan of baked potatoes. I should state for the record, this food truck was not an actual truck, but an oven on a trailer and a tent but I consider any mobile food option that is not a hot dog cart a food truck for purposes of Ed’s Eats.
A baked potato from La Papa Baked Potatoes & Roasted Corn.
I got the standard potato which comes with sour cream, cheese, bacon bits, spring onion, and pickled jalapenos. I got mine without sour cream for the simple reason that I do not like sour cream. The potato itself was perfectly done. I expected a really good potato because you can’t expect to make any money with a baked potato food truck if you can’t make a good baked potato. However it exceed expectations. It was almost creamy inside. I am not sure what their trick is but if you like baked potatoes you will enjoy it.
The toppings were tasty and they put a good amount of them on the potato. They also offer meat on top of the potatoes for an added price. I believe they had both asada (beef) and carnitas (pork). I think if you are hungry you should go with one of these. While I didn’t try either, they looked good and of course, would be more filling than the regular offering. I didn’t try the corn so I can’t comment on that but I heard the roasted corn was also very good.
Service was quick and friendly and I’d say the price was fair: maybe not a bargain but definitely reasonable for what they offered. I think next time I partake one of La Papa Baked Potatoes & Roasted Corn’s offerings I’ll try one with meat on it because as I mentioned above they looked really good. As I said above, definitely check them out if like baked potatoes.
