The Stress Reliever

This truck needs another person to take the orders. I stood in line weeks ago, and it was such a mess, after waiting a long time, I just left: people were not getting their food and getting the wrong things. One woman said she’d been waiting 20 minutes and they didn’t have her order; they didn’t give her a discount or anything. I think they’ve gotten better, but they still are far from seamless now.
There is a ton of food on the Killadelphia, and even at the increased cost of $ 8.50, it seems to be a great value. Well, it would’ve been a great value, except there was cartilage in my sandwich. Yuck. There went a star. And I was excited for the fries, but they were somewhat underdone. The chicken was seasoned very well.
And the crank was fabulous.
Overall, though, I just don’t think I’ll be rushing back to it.

I forgive that you guys pulled out of L’Enfant last week, leaving me have to settle for a halal truck. Heck, I even forgive you guys raising the price of the Killadelphia to $ 8.50, we all knew it would only be a matter of time before you realized what you were offering was the deal of all food trucks. Just as long as you keep that Sammy on the menu and make regular stops here I’ll be happy.
You also seem to be handling the crowds a bit better, I think you might have limited your menu a little bit keep things more simple. I just hope your truck won’t be a victim of its own success. Just keep up the quality, keep things moving, and show us that you still are a value and and I think you guys will do well in this food truck world.

This place has a great but had a limited selection of food and needs to step up their operation. The Kiladelphia chicken cheese sandwich was so big I felt guilty for having so much at $ 7.50. The fries were nothing special. Service was very fast for a food truck and friendly. They need to market themselves better. Neither the name nor the truck let people know what they’re about. They should capitalize on the huge, tasty portions and comfort food menu.

I give it a 4+. Delicious food served by friendly, helpful people, and a lot fo food for the money compared to most food trucks. I had the Turkey Burger, loaded with cheese, bacon, peppers and onions, and it was damn good. The side of fries were your basic krinkle cuts, but they were cooked just right and lots of them. As much as I liked my burger I’m getting the chicken cheese steak next time — a co-​worker got it and it looked and smelled incredible.
Definitely looking forward to eating there again.

**** 4.5 stars ****
These guys started slinging their product on the rough streets of PG County before earning their way up to the even more competitive locale of DC. But this isn’t the story you’re used to hearing. These guys got grills, and they aren’t the ones that come platinum coated accompanied by sick Saint Louis beats. No, this is one of the newest trucks to land in the District with a fresh new permit, and they absolutely deliver some serious flavor for a very fair price.
It’s a bare bones operation, no doubt. A solid black truck with a phone number and a decal, and a hand-​written menu that I assume changes based on product availability, is pretty much all you’ll find here. No fancy graphics, additions (speakers, soda machine, hand sink, etc), or anything else costly that might get passed on to the consumer. There is however a late night banker teller style screen window that gets lifted up from order to order, I suppose to keep the bugs out, and let all the wonderful fried smells waft out into the street. It’s a cash only truck, which is one of my only complaints, but considering it’s just the two of them running this show they do it faster than I would have expected. I’m not sure how much food the guy handling the money is coming into contact with, due to the screen, but I’m going to lean on the ignorance is bliss side here. Like many other trucks first starting out, they also don’t have a very manageable ordering system. The taking orders and randomly calling them out might work fine while selling to a smaller audience up in Maryland, but once you enter DC and start to face these long lines you really need to be more organized.
The menu offerings are seemingly basic, and when it comes to the fried goods they in fact are, but the sandwiches here are over the top, gorge yourself style preparations. I decided to go with a «Killadelphia», which is roasted chicken that is then pulled and done cheesesteak style with gooey provolone and grilled peppers and onions tossed in. It’s so unbelievably huge that I’m really sad my picture won’t capture the girth. When I picked it up to eat, chicken was literally falling off from every angle, and it was still loaded. This sandwich contains no filler, it is all chicken all the way, with the peppers and onions loaded on the top. I haven’t seen a bun this stuffed since Beach Week 1999. All this goodness comes to you at the incredibly reasonable price of $ 7.50, and like everything else on the menu a generous side of fries. The fries are essentially the frozen bag standard, but given that I would pay that price for this sandwich again gladly, I pretty much consider them free. They also do a chicken salad sandwich that I didn’t see anyone order, but the fully loaded turkey burger, known as the Teridactyl, was equally as gigantic, and on one occasion the guy could barely close the lid on his container.
The fried foods, consisting of whiting or butterfly shrimp, were a bit more basic in presentation, consisting solely of the seafood item and fries. Since I ordered the butterfly shrimp as well I was a bit disappointed not only in the size /​number (6) of shrimp at $ 9, but the fact that there was no sauce or anything on the side. The batter itself is really nice and crunchy and there isn’t much excess grease, but it would be so easy for them to prepare some kind of dipping sauce to really make this dish complete.
I finished off my order with some of their Crank. This was the part of the meal I really didn’t expect to enjoy, but I went ahead and ordered it anyway. They describe it as a sweet tea mix, and I don’t actually like sweet tea. However, this tasted very little like tea, and a good bit like orange and/​or cherry Kool-​Aid with some tea swirled in. It certainly earned the moniker which it has borrowed from street slang. I can’t imagine the calories I consumed from this truck, and that’s even with eating only half of what I ordered and passing the rest off to my co-​worker, but I would gladly return to try out some of the other menu items.