Vernalicious

I wasn’t on Unilocal when I had the pleasure of using Vernaliscious for my outdoor engagement party. So my post is referring to June 2014, But I remeber like it was yesterday. We had a last minute cancellation from another truck, and we reached out to Verna, and she saved the day. They were able to come and serve 60 ppl after a festival of 500+ that morning. The food was hot, and delicious and the guests adored verna and the food truck. They were so pleasant. I would recommend verna to anyone looking for good food and good service!

This food truck is phenomenal! The staff is always pleasant and the food is always great! Their Pulled Pork Grilled Cheese is one the best sandwiches I have ever had in my life! I could eat them every day, all day! If you ever see this truck, get anything off of it and you won’t be disappointed. The prices are reasonable and you don’t have to wait long for something other food trucks never have. 5 stars for everything that has come off of this truck.

If you see it, drop what you’re doing and eat! If they have the pork ban mi… even better.

I just happened to stop by and needed to grab something quick! Service was so nice! I had the Bacon Corn Chowder with lump crabmeat. I cannot explain how good this tasted. L Like other reviewers said if you see their truck, stop and grab something!

Never created a write up for a food truck but never had a pulled pork grilled cheese like I just had! Do yourself a favor and treat yourself to one. Very generous serving of this tender juicy pork that melts in your mouth. Highly friendly staff too!

The one flaw to a mobile food truck being pegged to a certain address or zip code on Unilocal,is that you can’t check in whenever you go to a special event or festival that their taking part in that’s outside of that area!
This first world problem oftentimes makes it easy to forget to write a review for said food truck, since it constantly fails to pop up on the long list of many many places that you have previously visited and checked into. But one can never truly forget a damn good grilled cheese sandwich, ESPECIALLY when its one that’s also filled to the brim with succulent barbecue pulled pork. And its things like that which really has Vernalicious taking comfort food to a whole new level of win!
In my few visits to Vernalicious that I’ve thus far been able to check into, not only have I been able to come across and devour such a sandwich of epic proportions; I’ve also been able to enjoy such incredible dishes as shrimp ceviche, fish tacos, jerk chicken, and grilled mac & cheese. with so many amazing recipes they’re capable of switching up their menu to cater something new to whatever event or regular lunch crowd that they service. So they manage to change it up more frequently than most of the other food trucks around them, while also offering up a few choice signature items with a smile. And its that reason that makes them one of the better food trucks in Philly!

I ordered the pulled pork grilled cheese for $ 8. I loved pulled pork and grilled cheeses so I couldn’t have been more excited for this. The pulled pork was more like a chunks of pork and not like i imagined. I imagined it to be very BBQ flavored and it was not at all. The sandwich was still yummy but definitely not what I expected.

Stopped here on Saturday while I was on a bike ride called the tour de taco. 20 miles, 10 taco stops. This was stop 7. I took the strategy of one at each stop which was pretty ambitious. Here I wound up ordering the pulled pork taco with cheddar cheese, pickled jalapenos, cilantro, guacamole and a squirt of bbq sauce. The combination of these things does not sound all that delicious, but in practice, holy crap it was good.
I think the real key to this taco was the charred tortillas. Double layered, charred to perfection. I was surprisingly fond of these flour tortillas, but I think it was because of the char. It took a little bit of the chew out of them, and added another depth of flavor. They held up really nicely with the pulled pork in them. The pulled pork wasnt overly juicy, which was great because it didnt run out of the taco when it was bitten into. The guacamole was fantastic! It was super limey and had a nice bit of heat to it. The thing that tied it all together surprisingly was the cheddar cheese. I thought it was going to overpower it, but it simply brought it all together in a flash of cheesey goodness. This was a very nontraditional taco, but one of my favorites of the day.
I will definitely be back to Vernalicious to delve into more of their deliciousness.

Vernalicious trekked to the ‘burbs and boy are we ever grateful.
The menu is limited — but everything is delicious!
I had the BLT & A and it was perfection at $ 8.50 — or add Smoked Salmon to it for $ 12.
Many others tried the pulled pork grilled cheese (or plain grilled cheese) and it looked great, too.
Thank you, soooooo much for hauling out to Chesterbrook and PULEEEZE come back. We need you!
WhooHoo! As good as you can get from a truck with door to door service.
Oh — and the lady called me «hon». Adorbs!

Great food, great service. no complaints. I have eaten here on several occasions and love their food. The service is great and you don’t wait forever to get your food, unlike some other trucks.
I wish they were at Love Park more!

OM yum umm mm ommm (yup, that’s me taking bite after bite without putting down my sandwich. Lol) Sooooooo goooooooodddddd. Ok, lets start from the beginning…
Went on my daily walk with a coworker but today we went a different route. BIG MISTAKE (in a good way, and bad way of course) Mmmm, the smell was driving me crazy! Finished my 30 minute walk and when I went back to work, all I could think about was the smell at Vernalicious. My salad I was eating wasn’t cutting it. I walked my butt down Market, down 16^th Street to get to Love Park and ordered myself the pulled pork grilled cheese sandwich. Paid with my LevelUp (yay levelup!!!), and waited for the delicious gooeyness that I was about to devour. Once she called my name, I practically ran back to my office casue I couldn’t wait to try it. Ripped the bag open, took a quick picture, and gobbled away.
OMG, I was in heaven. hahahaha. Pork was so nice and tender, bbq sauce was the perfect amount (not a huge fan of bbq, but this place made it soooo delicious), and cheese was perfectly melted. I told myself I was only going to eat half bc I’m entered into the biggest loser competition at work. yea that went down the drain. I end up eating the whole sandwich, :-(Sigh…guess I have to walk extra tonight to burn off all that deliciousness.
I now have to control myself for the next 9 weeks! How will I do it?!?

The bf and I stopped here for a bite to eat right before picking up a keg from Yards. Having their food truck right outside of the brewery on a Saturday afternoon is both brilliant and convenient!
We split the pulled pork grilled cheese and the pesto/​ricotta/​asparagus sandwiches. The pulled pork was the better of the two. It has a mix if cheddar and American cheeses, but I wish I had a little more cheese taste while eating it. Maybe a sharper cheddar or substituting the American for another cheese?
The pesto/​ricotta had delicious bread that was toasted perfectly. But I feel like the flavor was missing something – the ricotta was light and fluffy but I hardly tasted the pesto. In fact I forgot it was even on there until I started writing this! Add more pesto to it, or add something like cracked pepper and this would also be delicious overall.

The Vernalicious food truck people are friendly, cheerful, and helpful — and they make yummy food. So far I’ve only tried the brisket sandwich, which was delish. The sandwich included large slabs of toothsome brisket topped with swiss cheese and all inside a fresh brioche bun. It was, actually, too much. Some sort of green (spinach? rabe?) or crispy slaw might go better with the brisket.
There is a formidable variety of hot sauces, so if you have a favorite form of food fire, you might just find it here.
The prices are reasonable, with sandwiches being in the eight dollar range. I plan on checking out some more of their offerings in the future.

Outstanding. Eating the salmon burger as I type. And the warmth of Vern (?) makes it even better.

The Vernalicious Food Truck was at the Philadelphia Navy Yard’s Food Truck event on Thursday, April 11^th. Since some of the lines at the other trucks were long I decided to go with Vernalicious.
I settled for Souvlaki-​pitas. I enjoyed my lunch and found it comparable to my favorite place Bitars, but I will need more to go on. However, Vernalicious has earned a spot in my stomach.
The line was short because they were able to put out good food quickly.

Good pulled pork grilled cheese sandwiches made quickly by friendly employees.

I swear to you, everything Verna and co. creates turns to solid gold awesome. Since taking up weekly residence at Love Park I have been lucky enough to get my hands on a pulled pork grilled cheese (holy crap if that isn’t the most amazing sandwich to come out of a steel box, I don’t know what is), the buffalo chicken sausage sandwich with helloooooo bleu cheese cole slaw? sign me up, even her egg salad sandwich has got a little something special going on when they toast the le bus roll with truffle butter and top it with arugula and radishes, classy. The weekday rotating menu is spot on every single time; even when night market rolls around and they are mass producing for quite literally thousands, quality never ever slips. The food is comfort food, but taken up a notch, always hot (except when it’s egg salad) and always served with a smile.
Verna is quite possibly the nicest food truck vendor I have met (shh don’t tell the others), if the woman has ever had a bad day you’d never know it, she has even offered me suggestions on hair products since we both have unruly curly, but awesome hair. Sadly I no longer work downtown and find myself missing Vernalicious more than pretty much any other lunch option downtown and have even gone as far as scheduling meetings on Tuesdays just to be able to stop and say hi and indulge in her menu options of the day. Regardless how long I’ve been away though, Verna always has a smile and big old «hey Becca!» when I do get that rare chance to visit. That, my friends, is what keeps people coming back… solid food and solid friendly folks.

Got a chance to try Vernalicious when they were done at the Navy Yard for the bi-​weekly Food Truck Lineup.
As I have mentioned before in reviews of food trucks, I liked that they have a small, simple menu. The choices were a variety of grilled cheese, sides of mac-​n-​cheese, and a chicken bahn mi sandwich (which doesn’t really seem to fit in with the other options, but people seem to rave about it). I was in a comfort food mood so I went with the grilled cheese with tomato and a side of their griddled mac-​n-​cheese. Total for my order was $ 7.50.
Both of my selections were very tasty. The sandwich was a pretty standard grilled cheese but I liked that they used two different types of cheese. The griddled mac-​n-​cheese was a small (but filling) block of mac and cheese that was cooked on the griddle to give it a hard outside shell. The mac and cheese itself was delicious– but the outside shell was a bit too greasy.
So why only three stars? I think the meal was definitely a good value for the price, but compared to some of the other food trucks in the city, this one didn’t blow me away. It definitely is a solid choice if you are craving a meal filled with cheese and carbs. I would come back and try that chicken bahn mi burger though.

I’ve enjoyed everything I’ve ordered from Vernalicious, but I am simply nutso over their pulled pork grilled cheese sandwich. They have positioned it as a Philly cheesesteak reinvented, and I can’t really argue. First off, I think it’s simply the best grilled cheese in town, period, regardless of the pulled pork. I’d put it above any other trucks or restaurants that serve any variation on grilled cheese, with no qualms whatsoever. But jeez, that pulled pork, it’s so juicy, so perfect, such a perfect melding with the cheese, I just have to devour it.
After trying the pulled pork grilled cheese, I have been hard pressed to order anything else, but I have also had a divine sausage sandwich with perfectly garlicky spinach on a long roll. Much like the pulled pork grilled cheese, consider it inhaled. Their menu changes often, which I think is great, as there’s always something new to try.
I regret that I didn’t try Vernalicious sooner, when they were more frequently at 33^rd and Arch. Then once I finally discovered their greatness, they disappeared from Drexel. Over summer, we’ve been enjoying Vernalicious at The Porch at 30^th, and it’s been our top food truck choice among the amazing food trucks assembled there on Wednesdays. But that’s just about over for the season. Please, come back to 33^rd and Arch, Vernalicious, we love you!

We are nearing full blown tomato season and I’ve got tomatoes on my mind.
If those damn greedy city squirrels didn’t eat all of my tomatoes from my city garden, I wouldn’t be so tomato focused but because those fat vermin have wiped me out, I am. Vernalicious came in and gave me a good dose of the tomatoes that I needed with their tomato, mozzarella and pesto grilled sandwich. Summer sandwich perfection. Crispy grilled with a pine nut rich pesto schmear, some ripe tomatoes and a lovely white mozz, and voila, it’s the tomato summer sammie that you’re craving.
They round out their offerings with some serious grilled cheeses of both the pulled pork and chicken variety which are downright indulgent and messy. Only downside: a little price-​y with sandwiches costing between $ 6.50 to $ 8.50. Anything served in a soup dish (jambalaya) is small and pretty pricey at nearly $ 7.