Gourmet truck food bookend for your trip to the Sunshine Coast

Posted By Webmaster Laurie McConnell on Jun 16, 2011 in Before You Get Here, EAT & SHOP, Uncategorized

If you are planning a trip to the Sunshine Coast via Horseshoe Bay, make sure to get an advance taste of our unique lifestyle by making a pit stop en route to enjoy one of the Coast’s finest exports – Feastro the Rolling Bistro.

Located at Cordova and Thurlow in downtown Vancouver – right across from the Olympic Torch – Feastro has taken what they did so wonderfully on the Sunshine Coast for two years and brought it to one of the big city’s most happening corners. Owners Paul Fenton and Steve Myddleton (executive chef, formerly of Salmon House on the Hill in Burnaby and co-owner of an award-winning bistro in North Vancouver) dish up a wildly varied menu to their enthusiastic followers 7 days a week.

The menu is primarily seafood-based, with chowder/soup, halibut or salmon tacos, tuna carpaccio salad, potato or yam frites, BC prawns and other shellfish, crab cakes, and daily specials… but if you’re craving regular carnivore fare, the smoker on the front of the truck produces some amazing pulled pork and slow-roasted chicken dishes. Everything is served with organic greens picked the morning of, at first light before the 6:20 am ferry off the Sunshine Coast and into Horseshoe Bay for the quick trip into downtown.

Feastro has a fanatical following hard to be believed. Just as they did on the Sunshine Coast they have a regular who has come every day to eat, since they opened; one couple and father/father-in-law flew up from Los Angeles just to eat after seeing Feastro profiled on The Food Network’s Eat St. TV series focused on the growing popularity of street food across North America. From LA, just for lunch! They ordered almost a dozen dishes, enjoyed every bite, and then headed home to the states. Yes, it’s that good.

Feastro has been profiled by a number of media outlets, from Randy Shore’s ‘The Green Man’ blog in the Vancouver Sun, to Eat St., and most recently on the show ‘Urban Rush‘ in Vancouver, included here.

Learn more about Feastro here: feastro.ca

About the Author

Laurie McConnell is a 23 year resident of the Sunshine Coast, who came to the area for a summer internship at a local newspaper, and never left! She has been celebrating the Sunshine Coast and sharing it with the world since 1997 - over a decade of stories, images, and now, multimedia for you to enjoy.