Although “You had me at poutine…” is what their shirts read. 

This weekend we frequented Skillet Street Food, a mobile Airstream that serves gourmet street food. Kevin and I had both recently read about Skillet’s tasty burgers and figured we’d better go see how good this street meat really is.  Since they’re mobile they have an online calendar that tells you when and where they’ll be - we tracked them to Northgate.

Their menu was written in sharpie on the side of the Airstream.  We already new we wanted the burger but for the non-beef eaters they also had a pork sandwich, salad, poutine and gnocchi.  The only beverage on tap was a very tasty and and quite refreshing cantaloupe mint lemonade.  For dessert they served  fresh off the mini-blow torch, smores.  All of their menu was listed at tax included prices.  Our burgers came with a ridiculously enourmous amount of fries –  all only $9!

The burger – the reason we went – melted in my mouth.  Every. Single. Bite. was tasty.  I ate the whole thing with no soggy bun left to waste.  The combination of perfectly cooked beef, cambozola, arugula and bacon jam was one that didn’t excite me at first.  Unlike most of the world, bacon doesn’t do much for me.  To me, it steals all the flavor and all I can taste is bacon.  Bacon jam though….oh [insert drool here] it was good.  It didn’t steal any flavor, just melded perfectly with the rest of the sandwich.  It was probably one of the best, if not THE best burger I’ve ever had. No ketchup needed.

Our trip to Skillet was a definite win, giving Red Mill some steep competition for our taste buds. When feeding that burger craving the decision will be between BBQ or Bacon Jam? And of course we’ll have to factor in that you can’t get a MC Hammer (mandarine chocolate shake) out of an Airstream…no milk shake though gives reason to get ice creams for dessert!