Meatyballs Mobile Will No Longer Spread Innuendo Throughout the Land

Photo by Brandon.

Chef Phillip Foss is having a busy year. After leaving Lockwood in August 2010, he started one of the first big food trucks, Meatyballs Mobile, notorious for its sandwiches and its bad, teenage-boy style genitalia puns. Luckily, the former was enough to outweigh the latter, and it won second place in our poll of the city's best food trucks.

Unfortunately, Foss seems to have become too busy to keep the truck. His new restaurant El Ideas, (which had a great sign earlier this week), has gotten tons of buzz and positive press and he announced this morning that the Meatyballs truck would be leaving the streets.

"Though humbling & heart breaking to inform, The Meatyballs Mobile will only occasionally 'pop up' going forward. There are many reasons, but the bottom line is that I can no longer burn the candle at both ends as an individual & expect not to splinter. Thank you all for your support & helping me to fulfill my dream as a restaurant owner. I promise that our balls (and double entendres) will see the light of day and roll again, and hopefully sooner than later. My attention will now be devoted full time to EL ideas venture & unlocking our full potential. Still really sad right now. Most of all incredibly appreciative of all our faithful followers & fans who've made this last year the amazing ride it's been!"

Sounds like you'll still be able to find the Meatyballs truck at some of the pop-up events around town. We wish Foss the best, and hope to see the truck rolling again soon.

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By Anthony Todd in Food on November 4, 2011 9:00 AM 0 Comments

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chee1rs

love it

James Pope

The point of food trucks is to serve food from chefs to people who might not have a chance to try their food in a brick and motar place. It is not a fad and is not going anywhere. Serving high end street food is a great idea. Case in point Paul Kahan newest venture? A food truck

Nicholas

Of course, this story would suggest otherwise. It may be that trucks are just too much effort for the low return. I just prefer visiting a restaurant rather than wondering where a food truck is or trying to track it down. I much prefer the Mac and Cheese store to a Mac and Cheese food truck. I know where it is and I can plan to eat there.

ChicagoD

I generally agree that this whole deal is overhyped. I will say that if I do not bring my lunch to work I will at least usually look up and down the block to see if there are any food trucks out. Not because I crave a "chef's" stylings, but because they are often something other than what has been around here for the last 10 years. They're fine, as far as they go, but they're not that big a deal.

Nicholas

Ya know, for all the digital ink spilled raving about food trucks here on Chicagoist, I have seen but one in the past several months and fail to understand why I should care enough to read anything about them. If I want meatballs, I know where to go. With a food truck, I am never quite sure. So, why all the attention to foodtrucks? The whole point of this story is that a food truck you are not likely to see will now never be seen by anyone. Frankly, I think food trucks are a fad and one that is rapidly losing steam.