Food Trucks Search For A Home in Tysons

Working in Tysons Corner usually means a few things: Thousands of people, traffic headaches, non-existent sidewalks and minimal choices for lunch outside of chain restaurants, company delis or cafeterias and mall food courts.

What can a discriminating foodie do to break up the routine?

According to a few brave food entrepreneurs, the answer is food trucks. They’re outfitting old ice cream or catering trucks as mobile kitchens, targeting certain quadrants of the Vienna and McLean areas (and parts of Fairfax, Falls Church and Reston) to deliver creative, high-quality lunches to hungry workers.

The most recent trucks on the business park scene include Maple Avenue Restaurant’s MAX (Maple Ave. Express), a truck specializing in hot sandwiches; Top Dog, a bright orange hot dog truck run by Dave Adams and Mark Taylor; and a newcomer, Doug the Food Dude, who has a wide range of menu items.

While a recent story published in the Los Angeles Times

MAX proprietor Joey Hernandez may hold the honor as the owner of the first foodie-friendly food truck resident in Tysons, during the summer of 2010. MAX, Top Dog and Doug Maheu, whose eponymous truck rotates between locations in Arlington and Fairfax counties, have been working in the area regularly since the weather began to warm up earlier this spring.

Hernandez, who owns Vienna's Maple Avenue Restaurant with fiancé Tim Ma, was attracted to food trucks as a former Tysons Corner office worker who wanted to cater to the needs of  ex-work colleagues.

“When I worked [in Tysons], there was nothing,” she says at the end of a lunch rush on Howard Avenue. “So I know there’s a need for this.”

MAX comes out for lunch three days per week. The truck features pulled pork sandwiches and bulgogi wraps along with a rotating special each day.

Maheu, 46, likens his endeavor — based in a former Snap-On tools truck — to a restaurant on wheels and has a fairly large menu that includes Caribbean pork, a lobster roll wrap and a salmon sandwich.

Top Dog, hard to miss with its bright orange paint job, is out five days per week selling Sonoran-style hot dogs, Maryland-made sausages and “not-dogs," which give avocado top billing rather than a veggie or tofu dog. All on a soft-but-sturdy brioche bun.

“We wanted something that was operationally simple and familiar to people,” Adams said of finally deciding on hot dogs. “We didn’t want to serve some weird Chinese food people wouldn’t be used to.

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