April 20, 2024

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New Bangor-area food truck features an eclectic menu of homemade eats

The menu for The Butcher The Baker, a new Bangor-space meals truck, is as eclectic as it is entertaining — accurately how owners Carl Birmingham and Brittany Levasseur want it in their initial outing on their personal just after a long time in the cafe field.

The Butcher The Baker, established to open up this weekend, is the longtime dream of Birmingham and Levasseur, who have labored in kitchens and at the rear of the bar at area places to eat for yrs, which include most recently at Superior Tide in Brewer. They intend to open most times of the 7 days starting afterwards on in June and provide catering for functions in eastern Maine.

“It’s certainly our desire,” Levasseur claimed. “To do anything from scratch, do-it-yourself, all the varieties of things we really like to take in and we know other individuals do, also. We make our have bread, our personal sauces, our personal cheeses. We smoke everything ourselves.”

The four primary factors of the menu are treats, sandwiches, tacos and entrees. For snacks, hand-lower fries can be topped with cheese or had as poutine, or you can consider issues like a curry basil wonton dip or a doughnut stuffed with bacon jam. Sandwiches consist of classics this sort of as a Cubano and a banh mi, and there are entrees spanning an array of cuisines, together with a Korean beef shank bibimbap, Cajun etouffee and southern-model hen and waffles topped with a chile-maple glaze and pork belly crumbles.

“Everybody is excited for the hen and waffles,” Levasseur stated. “It’s just something that I assume everybody loves, but you really do not see on menus around below that normally.”

Rounding out the menu will be tacos with a choice of a variety of fillings, which includes coconut shrimp, ahi tuna, pulled pork, smoked carrots and the Instagram-well known birria, a gradual-stewed flavorful beef originating in Mexican cuisine. Birmingham and Levasseur contact their cooking style New American — a fusion of many cuisines and tactics.

Levasseur stated that not each item that’s at present on the menu will be readily available each individual working day.

“We’ll be changing matters up each day and rotating matters in and out,” she mentioned. “We want to really see what men and women seize on to and what they adore.”

The Butcher The Baker will be at the Wings & Wheels Vehicle Demonstrate and Fly-In, set for 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at DeWitt Industry at 100 Airport Street in Aged Town. A long lasting area for the truck will be introduced in the coming weeks.