Biscuit Love Truck

Food trucks. Ten years ago, I might have thought of an old man selling boiled peanuts and pork rinds out of the back of his pickup truck. Now, there's a growing, serious appreciation of mobile eateries that is spreading the country. As it is with most things that spread the nation, Nashville is at the forefront of the movement, and at the front of the pack is the Biscuit Love Truck. 


The great -- or inconvenient, depending on your perspective -- thing about food trucks is that they, by design, rove. They're never in the same place two days in a row, most of the time, which means that you have to stay sharp on social media or on their website to make sure that you are wherever they are on any given afternoon. That also means that they have a more dedicated following on social media, meaning that, depending on just how good the food is, they probably gather a strong suite of diehard advocates.

I count myself amongst those elite in regards to the Biscuit Love Truck.

When we managed to track it down (which, again, isn't hard as long as you're friends with them on Facebook) near Sevier Park in 12 South. They have a handful of options, the first and most deceivingly named of which is the "Princess." It's a fried chicken biscuit with a honey glaze, and it is the best chicken biscuit that I've ever put in my mouth. The honey glaze is sweet and smokey, but the chicken is juicy and fresh, and realistically large enough to make two biscuits. This is a sandwich you eat with a fork and a knife, and then feel sad about when it's over. My wife got the sausage and egg, which was also delicious -- juicy, locally sources sausage patty and made-to-order egg that is, more than likely, also from a local farm. But the chicken has my heart.

They were out of coffee when we went, which is my only complaint. But when you realize how popular these trucks are in Nashville, and how particularly popular the Biscuit Love Truck is, it's not hard to imagine that they quickly run out of stock in the little trailer that they call a kitchen. Maybe that's what makes them and the fantastic food they create so special. Like the Loch Ness or Sasquatch, but roving the city on a regularly updated and posted schedule.