Strada Bella Food Truck Brings Italian Street Food to Cycle This Weekend

Whether it's technically a pop-up or not, this weekend's menu at Cycle sounds damn tasty. Strada Bella food truck -- run by Pat Simeri -- is just now up and running and ready to serve. Simeri is still only booking special events (you can't find him parked any place...

By Amy Silverman

April 13, 2011

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Whether it's technically a pop-up or not, this weekend's menu at Cycle sounds damn tasty.

Strada Bella food truck -- run by Pat Simeri -- is just now up and running and ready to serve. Simeri is still only booking special events (you can't find him parked any place regularly yet) but plans to take his Italian street food concept far and wide. He explains that he has a background in manufacturing, and was retrofitting food trucks before deciding to put his Italian grandmother's recipes to the test.

The menu will include:

pasta campanelle in a spicy rustic sauce; ziti in red sauce with Nana's meatballs; brussel sprouts with nutmeg sauteed in brown butter; and mozarella caprese -- as a salad or sandwich.

Simeri says he's still working on his website and Facbook page. For now, you can contact him at (623) 217-4737 or email [email protected].

Or catch him at Cycle Friday and Saturday evenings -- for details, go here.

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Amy Silverman is the former managing editor of Phoenix New Times. She is a two-time winner of the Arizona Press Club’s Journalist of the Year award. Her work has appeared on the radio show This American Life and in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Lenny Letter, and Brain, Child.