EmpanaPizza has the dough down, but can pull off the toppings | Food & Beverage
EmpanaPizza, while difficult to say out loud, combines a great idea with execution that needs a few tweaks. More to the point: The basic structure is solid, but the fillings need work. The foundation of empanadas, the dough, fulfills your wildest empanada dreams. Fried to a perfect golden brown, salty and crispy, the perfect creases around the rim mean the well-proportioned filling stays put during frying, with no messy leaks.
The first is cheeseburger variety. The ground beef, seasoned with salt, pepper, garlic and onion, comes out juicy and flavorful, as you’d expect from a good burger. Cheese reads American, and you either appreciate it on a burger or you don’t. of pizza with pepper the variation bothers me. I expect pepperoni (which I get), but I also expect a cheese sauce. Instead, the cheese and sauce blend together into a thick mixture that doesn’t retain the punch of a good pizza sauce or the smoothness of a good pizza cheese. The overall taste for this is rated OK. The “technically successful” theme continues with a BBQ Chicken Quesadilla. Done well and topped with a generous amount of juicy shredded chicken, the downfall turns out to be the BBQ sauce. Like many commercial sauces, the flavor profile reads overly sweet with just a hint of smoke.
With two choices of desserts, choose apple pie on Nutella. This is perhaps the most technically successful empanada, a perfect little pie by hand. My quibble lies with the filling, which tastes like canned apple pie filling. Not bad, just not as good as it could be. Worth noting – 3 month old truck can be hard to find. Their Facebook page doesn’t often include where they’ll be, as they’ve switched to using the Where’s The Foodtruck (WTF) app. Not everyone will take the extra steps to install a new app just to find out where a particular food truck will be this weekend. And EmpanaPizza’s price point should also be mentioned: I got three empanadas for $10, and the large quesadilla was only $8. I’d be more than willing to pay a slightly higher price to get better quality refills, so I hope they continue to experiment with this concept.