Sep 21 2010
Street Meat: Pulled Pork on the Go – Re-up
Re-up is one of Vancouver’s new food carts. For those of you who may not be in the street meat scene, up until this summer our street food options were limited to hotdogs, nuts, and some other item I had never tired. That all changed when Vancouver decided to try to make up for the culture drain we felt at the end of the Winter Olympics by extending our street food offerings. We can now have everything from Dim Sum to Pizza all cooked up in some new fancy food carts.
Over the next month we here at TweetsOnEats are going to hit up all of the new food carts and provide you with a review in hopes that we can steer you in the right direction for your road-side eating.
Re-Up Barbecue Pulled Pork Sandwich: $6.75 (Tax in) 8.34/10
Pulled Pork from Re-Up
I am convinced that deep within me (hold the jokes on that one) is a fat BBQ eating, checkered shirt wearing, soul. I can’t go past anywhere that sells BBQ and not have my mouth water. Today I was on my way back from the Apple store getting my Nano fixed when I walked past re-up. The smell alone got me going, and a quick peek at someone walking away eating a pulled pork sandwich with BBQ sauce dripping down their face, and I was inline with money in my hand before I knew what was going on.
They have done a good job at this cart of limiting their menu offering to only have one sandwich, do you really need more when the one is pulled pork? As wel as a few choices around what flavour iced-tea you would like. This helps keep the HUGE line here moving quickly.
On to the good sutff. The sandwich comes on a fresh, and very soft, white bun. It is then stuffed with slow-braised perfectly smoked pork. The meat is as tender as it gets. It is then topped off with a helping of fresh coleslaw. Oh I missed the big squirt of BBQ sauce that seals the deal.
This thing is great. Now, I am sure that if you go south you can find arguably a better tasting sandwich, but this is VANCOUVER folks. For where we are this is outstanding! I found myself licking the sauce that had dripped onto my hands and wishing for more.
The bad: Well if you are there right around noon you will be in a HUGE line. If you get there too late then he is sold out. I suggest eating early and then going back for seconds later in the lunch hour. If I was not running today this is what I would be doing for sure.
Will I go back? If you really have to ask this I kindly request that you leave this site now.
So I shouldn’t ask you if you’d go back?
Nice review…it made me progressively hungrier as I got to the end
It’s been added it to Re-Up’s profile on Van Street Eats.
Your food cart mission sounds like blast..I’ll add your site to our links (pay no mind to the heinous ordering system..some kind of code glitch went down yesterday..not feeling jedi enough to tackle it quite yet)
Enjoy your street food wanderings!
Michael from Re-Up here:
Thanks for stopping by. One note to share: our pork is smoked not braised. Glad you enjoyed it.
Michael Kaisaris
James, thanks for the feedback. Your site (http://vancouverstreeteats.ca/) is the definitive source for the city’s street food. I will also ad a link here to your site.
Michael, sorry for the mix up on the meat. I made the mistake of using second hand info on that. Looking forward to coming back to enjoy the smoky goodness soon!
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Thanks Marc!
Vancouver’s newest vendor is Arturo’s Mexico to Go by Waterfront station.
I had an awesome chicken burrito!
No one has reviewed this place yet that I know of..it’s in a funny spot and brand spanking new.. I’ll be going back next week or this weekend (not sure their hours so it’s a gamble..) I need to find out all I can and get it online!