The Game of Thrones food trucks will roll out in New York City this week (LA comes next week). Each morning will bring us a new video previewing the menu for that day. Today, Tom Colicchio previews his menu for King’s Landing which features cripsy trout and roasted rabbit.
Of course, you have to keep an eye on the Game of Thrones Twitter and Facebook page to find out where the food truck will be stopping today. The location should go out around 6 PM.
Also, Making Game of Thrones has posted the menus for each day this week. Plan your food truck runs accordingly. For those coming to the moot on Friday, looks like we will get served (appropriately enough) Winterfell-inspired dishes, which include venison and head cheese. Fun!
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What’re the details of the moot on Friday?
Eric TannerQuote Reply
Eric Tanner, going to send an email with the details soon. Just want to make sure we get our reservation locked in first. :)
Winter Is ComingQuote Reply
Have we had any word so far on location Hints for the truck?
has the next link of the path opened yet also?
Crotalidian (Paul)Quote Reply
@GameOfThrones just tweeted that the food truck will be in the Union Square vicinity today. Exact location to come around 6 PM.
Next link will be up in a couple hours or so.
Winter Is ComingQuote Reply
smart location, there are always hundreds of people hanging out in Union Square. Great first location, the food should be gone quickly though.
Jessica C.Quote Reply
I hope every evening isn’t based on crowded, high tourist neighborhoods. I’m sure they’ll do Times Square — but it would be awesome if they set up near the Cloisters in Fort Tyrion (sic) Park for the Wall (i.e., the far North of Manhattan).
Any other NY/LA locations that fit with the books?
Wall St for Lannisport (or the Wall, I suppose)
Central Park for the Dothraki Sea
Brooklyn for Pentos (the East River subbing for the Narrow Sea)
Staten Island for the Iron Isles.
Brooklyn Bridge for a Frey meal.
I might shuffle over to Union Square tonight, but I worry that the crowds will be massive.
Mr. FreyQuote Reply
Mr. Frey,
Haha, clever.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the locations some a combo of: Union Square, Times Square, Washington Square, nearby Central Park, Columbus Circle, Lincoln Center, Herald Square/MSG, maybe the Southstreet Seaport (which would be good for me given my work location in the Financial District). Hopefully the Friday cart is in a good location so that it doesn’t cause any trouble for the moot!
Also, I think the Pentoshi menu sounds noms.
LinaQuote Reply
Fort Tryon sounds like an awesome location, and suits Game of Thrones perfectly. I don’t know about Staten Island, no offense to those of you from there.
If they ever consider a Game of Thrones outdoors event here it would be ideal.
Jessica C.Quote Reply
Poor Rabbit…. I always liked her. But have to admit she sounds delish!
Two FeathersQuote Reply
Right by my office, fantastic!
Adam R.Quote Reply
Hmm, to go or not to go? On the one hand, Union Square isn’t that far from where I work, but on the other, it’s a pretty big shlep from there back to where I live. I’m not planning on eating anything, but I do want to see the truck and any fellow fans… dilemma.
InkasrainQuote Reply
Head cheese has to be the least appealingly named food in the history of the planet. Which is fitting, I guess, since it looks to be near the top of the list of most disgusting foods in the history of the planet
AdrianQuote Reply
Adrian,
I’m actually pretty excited about the head cheese :), but then again I’m one of those nose-to-tail types who happily eats anything, from monkfish liver to veal brains to pig trotters to blood sausage. It’s an adventurous choice, for sure, but it seems true to the books and their medieval-ish time period.
I will say that the Pentos menu looks especially appealing…roasted duck! And lamb flatbread? Totally into it.
Carrie MeathrellQuote Reply
anyone else having a hard time accessing MakingGameOfThrones today? Its timing out like crazy for me.
tekQuote Reply
What makes a cheese a headcheese??? Is it scraped off a head,served in a head,have bits of head in it, be shaped like a head and served on a spike? What? Seriously if you know please enlighten us………….Oh yeah,almost forgot. HBO is still showing the first fifteen mins. of episode one on April 3rd right? 9pm ET and on HBO.com straight after? Just wanted to confirm this is still happening,as its this Sunday coming.
Two FeathersQuote Reply
Two Feathers,
According to Tom Colicchio, the head cheese includes “…everything but the oink”. :)
Steve CQuote Reply
Cripsy trout? Does that mean the rabbit will be bloodsy and they’ll have to stay on their own sides of the plate?
GaRQuote Reply
Yes it is. I just the preview for the 15-minute preview last night before/after Mildred Pierce.
LinaQuote Reply
That really doesn`t help to sell it now does it? Cheese from a pig? Maybe some poor smuck is employed to milk sows for a living. No thanks. Pizza anyone?
Two FeathersQuote Reply
Lina,
Nice one thanks Lina.
Two FeathersQuote Reply
I don’t know whether to try for today or tomorrow, both sound pretty great.
Probably tomorrow, I guess. I dunno about head cheese on Friday. I might donate my spot in line for someone else, heh.
Wikipedia says: Head cheese (AmE) or brawn (BrE) is a cold cut originating in Europe. Another version pickled with vinegar is known as souse. Head cheese is not a cheese but a terrine or meat jelly made with flesh from the head of a calf or pig (sometimes a sheep or cow), and often set in aspic.
Not quite adventurous enough for that, lol.
ZackQuote Reply
Two Feathers,
My understanding is there’s no actual cheese. It’s some kind of gross jelly full of chopped up bits of an animal’s head. One of those things you have to wonder when exactly and HOW people thought something like this was a good idea.
AdrianQuote Reply
Zack,
Adrian,
Ah! Thanks guys that makes sense at last. Still I think I would give it a miss.
Two FeathersQuote Reply
Don’t forget you can also get venison on Friday. As long as you get there early enough that is, as I’m guessing the venison will be gone first. Almost anyone I have talked to about the head cheese has been all “ewww gross!” and I suspect that will be the reaction of most folks waiting for food on Friday.
Winter Is ComingQuote Reply
I hear you guys about the head cheese; I’m not sure what I will think. Venison isn’t bad though, so that will probably be good!
No Maester’s Path yet? :( :(
edit- Winter beat me to it about the deer.
LinaQuote Reply
Oh, cool! Yeah, I’ll just be sure to arrive early, then. Venison is delicious.
ZackQuote Reply
Winter Is Coming,
Having to choose between venison and head cheese seems like it’s along the same lines as having a choice between delicious filet mignon and a freezer burned Steak-um that also fell on the floor while it was being prepared. Both are edible, but with one you just have to ask “What’s the point? Why hasn’t this been thrown out yet?”
AdrianQuote Reply
I’d go just for the lemon cakes.
RipleyQuote Reply
Uuh… So i guess no Maesters path today, for some reason. Seems a little late for it to be posted now.
sjweningsQuote Reply
Still no new Maesters Path challenge? I was hoping to see a new clip before I have to leave for work. Oh well at least the new clip will probably be up on youtube by the time I get home.
Steven ScottQuote Reply
sjwenings,
Maybe it will come out at about the same time the food truck opens? I don’t know, just an idea. I wonder if it will be based off these menus they’ve sent out in some way.
dtbQuote Reply
dtb,
There’s 3 weeks before the show starts and two weeks of food (this week in NY and next week in LA). I was kind of thinking they would skip it for two weeks and then do one based on the food/menus and such the last monday before the premier.
JenSnowQuote Reply
JenSnow,
Maybe, i guess. But it does say march 28th.
sjweningsQuote Reply
sjwenings,
That’s true. We’ll see, I guess. Just a thought :)
JenSnowQuote Reply
sjwenings,
It’ll be in the next hour – hold tight.
Steve CQuote Reply
Steve C,
Ok? Cool, then. So i’ll get to solve it and see the reward just before going to bed.
sjweningsQuote Reply
hmmm
i have no clue.
stevelabnyQuote Reply
I’m on line! Anyone know the secret to the puzzle of folding this menu-thing? I just posted a photo on my facebook…
Brian BaldingerQuote Reply
Crowd looking for free food
http://ow.ly/i/9FUi
And what they got
http://ow.ly/i/9FTT
MormegilQuote Reply
The food truck started serving almost 4 hours ago and we still don’t have any reports?? Come on people, how was it?
Avalanche3319Quote Reply
Had about an hour wait on line and I got there three minutes after the tweet went out. I got the rabbit – it was delicious! The lemon cake was worth the wait on its own merit. So glad I went!
Skid MaherQuote Reply
Skid Maher,
I have to say that these lemon cakes look so much better than what my mind conjured up in the books. A vast improvement!
paulgudeQuote Reply
Ooo, what was it like mingling with other fans? :)
Raquel DoddQuote Reply
They ran out of lemon cakes after about 200 people. More importantly, I was probably #203! I saw the last lemon cake go seconds before I stepped up.
The trout was excellent, had a sweet little apricot sauce, but the portions were small. Not insultingly small, but just … Tyrion sized. They had plenty of rabbit, but people were ordering the trout. (and apparently somebody Hodored all the cakes).
I was in front of two young women who were trying to decide whether they were excited about Camelot or Games. So it didn’t seem to be too fannish. I definitely saw some people standing in line just because they heard “free food”.
mr. freyQuote Reply
Yeah the cakes were pretty spectacular, and not really what I imagined. And yes it was super fun mingling with the other fans! Very friendly atmosphere.
Skid MaherQuote Reply
A friend of mine went and said the trout/lemoncake were delicious. She said she was really lucky because she happened to be walking past just as the truck pulled up.
Did they ever post the exact location, as the first tweet said they would?
LinaQuote Reply
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Chelsea Monroe-CasselQuote Reply
I’m surprised there aren’t more reports here. I was hoping to see a few more pictures of the gathering at the truck and the food. I hope each day a few more reports come in here.
MetalgoddessAMBQuote Reply
They just announced the general location for tonight’s food truck.
Astor Place
MetalgoddessAMBQuote Reply