Rolling Joe Cafe

I’ve patronized Rolling Joe a few times as it rolled into the various Larkin Square Food Truck events. They do indeed serve a good cup of Joe, although I am often not the most discerning coffee drinker.
Service is friendly and the owner humored my babbling chatter. I often see them down in Delaware Park on the weekends, and often curse myself for not having any money with me, as I’d love to stop more often and get a caffeine kick.

I’m hoping that it’s called Rolling Joes because it will roll over to another city at some point. OK that’s mean. I’m just kidding. Kind of.
I’ve already probably upset Lindsey with my review of her fave Greek truck, now it’s Alex’s turn. I know he adores this truck. I went there at Larkin, and was amazed by all of the fantastic options on their menu. The first thing I asked for was not available, so I got something else… a sort of iced caramel coffee that he recommended as «probably the best iced drink we have and the biggest seller.» I think I paid $ 4 or $ 5 for it, it may have been the latter. It wasn’t particularly huge. So very overpriced then.
Of course if it tasted amazing, I wouldn’t care about the price or portion size. But it basically tasted like… ice cold, bland, very mediocre coffee. I can’t say how good their hot drinks are because I haven’t tried them, but based on the price of this and how poor it was, I can’t possibly go back and try more things. And that wasn’t the end of it. I was at Larkin ready to try a bunch of different foods and needed a drink to start off with. After drinking about one quarter of this drink (I had to throw the rest out because it tasted so bland and also a little funky), my tummy felt funny. I actually had to get out of line at Roaming Buffalo, and run off and find a bathroom. Because of a coffee drink.
So unfortunately this is not a place I will ever recommend to someone. But you know how it goes. You have one person who tries it and loves it (my friend Alex) and someone else who feels overcharged, totally underwhelmed, and like running off to the bathroom, and that’s life. If this review disappears, it’s because the people who love this truck (or the owner) contacted me and I felt bad about it and pulled it. That’s happened to me at least five times already. But I have to be honest. I can’t give this any higher.
I’ve said this in other reviews, but I find Buffalo food trucks to be utterly underwhelming. And I love food trucks in other places. I find the ones here to be overpriced and extremely poor and/​or bland. Down the way in Rochester, they’re often amazing. Go figure. I don’t get it.

I dare you to find a better coffee food truck. I’m glad I finally got a chance to check this place out. The owner who ran the truck was a very nice man and took our orders with a friendly smile.
My girlfriend ordered the Drinkable Banana Split with strawberry, banana chocolate, vanilla over ice with whipped cream. She mentioned that she LOVED it and it was just like «drinking» a banana split, as promised.
I ordered the «16 ounces of heaven drink» which was an iced hot chocolate, espresso and foamed milk. All these drinks were under $ 4 each and were made quickly :). Can’t wait to try more!