Toast

A love letter to toast:
Hands down the best panini I’ve ever had. I used to be a picky eater but toast completely changed my life and opened up my worldview. One day I was walking by and the vibrant yellow cart caught my eye. I took a gander over and looked at the menu. While the menu wasn’t something I ordinarily was into, the pleasant aroma wafting out of the cart hypnotized my senses and before I knew it, I had the turkey panini fully loaded in my hand. This was shocking to me, but I decided to go with the flow and chow down. BOOM. I was hit by flavor the likes my body had never experienced before. I quickly finished the Panini and noticed everything was a little different around me. Colors shown brighter, food tasted more complex and wonderful, aromas brought infinitely more satisfaction, and life in general was a little better all around. It’s safe to say that toast has integrally changed me for the better forever.
Ps. Gili (the owner) is also the bomb.

As a student as Madison, I look for something fresh, fast, and friendly and over all the food carts I always choose Toast. Great and fresh paninis always! You need to check it out if you haven’t already!

I look forward to my paninis every summer that I come home to Madison! My favorite is their homemade pesto & red bell pepper mayo… they add great flavors to the paninis! They have delicious, soft, fresh bread and I love that they have the option to build my own since I prefer to customize what I’d like on in. Usually I load my panini with cheese and veggies and go the vegetarian route, although my big meat eater friends love combining different meats and switching it up all the time. They have a great variety of recommended menu items to choose from as well! I love this food cart and would definitely recommend it to any food lover!

My favorite part about toast is that they have a large selection of meats, cheeses, sauces, toppings, etc. However, they don’t seem to put enough of the toppings on there, which is sad. I generally order a pastrami + roast beef sandwich, and I like the flavor of the meats. I also get garlic mayo, pesto, and all the toppings. They’re really nice to warn me that the peppers are really spicy (I have a high spice tolerance so I don’t mind haha). The service is good, but agreeing with other Unilocalers, the sandwiches are overpriced …

I ordered the Turkey. The guys in the cart were very friendly, and the veggies on top were fresh and plentiful, but it was still lacking any pizzaz. Also the bun was bleh, kinda like eating cardboard, they needed more mayo or something on the bun for my tastes. The onions were chopped and kept falling off my sandwich, slices would have been easier to eat. There wasn’t much cheese, I should have ordered chedder instead of provolone since it was hard to taste it, and chedder has a bolder flavor. All in all I wasn’t really impressed with my $ 7.50 sandwich, I think I could find something I like better for the same price.

I ate here sometime in March/​April this year while taking classes at the university. I ordered the Turkey Panini. Honestly the panini had hardly any toppings on it. I think the flavor ideas of this place are great but the sandwiches are seriously overpriced for what you get.

Great experience!! came by last week for lunch, all the ingredients are extremely fresh, friendly service and the panini was delicious.
Give it a try… you won’t regret that!

It’s not often that you come across a food cart with such a diverse and flexible menu. Toast offers great variety and always-​changing daily specials, and even gives you the option to make your own panini from the ingredients they have available! Additionally, it’s very rare for food carts to have such an open window through which you can see basically everything that happens in the cart– no feelings of «what the heck are they putting in my sandwich» at this place.
There aren’t many negative aspects to Toast, but I’m not always so impressed with the flavor of their sandwiches. The portions are filling, wholesome, and generous (and I’m in love with the bread!), but the ingredients taste similar to what you’d find at a fast food place. Overall, though, it’s a fantastic food cart!

Gili, the owner of the cart, wrote me and clarified a couple of issues. I love how Unilocal provides a channel for concerns to be voiced to the owner, and together we hope we can make the experience better for others!
I learnt from Gili himself that all of the food in the display case is in the refrigerator and is kept at the proper temperature, that makes me feel a lot at ease about the ingredients. It is also great that their open-​concept cart lets customers see how their food is prepared, since most typical food carts have small windows and you cannot watch the food preparation. So this is a great distinction from other food carts. That said it’s almost impossible to stop flying insects completely. I am fine with that as long as they don’t get onto the ingredients or onto the food.
Now that I feel a lot more comfortable I am looking forward to going back to try their paninis again.

The lemonade was good. The panini cost $ 7.50, took 20 minutes (there were all of 4 people ahead of us), and tasted flavorless and dull, a little like what I would expect licking a dusty shelf would taste like. Never again.

Great Panini. A friend and I do laps around the square and stopped by for lunch on Tuesday. Two bread choices… then choose your toppings… meats and cheese. The salty goodness of green olives appealed to me but I wasn’t sure it would really work with my sandwich choice. I was assured it would. The Panini was done pretty quickly and was really good. The lemonade was refreshing. They are very flexible with the ingredient combinations. It would be nice if they featured a sandwich of the day for when you want to try something different. Oh, and they take credit cards which always helps. I would go there again.

These guys were great! Just started out and put on one of the best food trucks at Madison’s A la Cart food fest this past weekend. Super nice people, great food, and gave generous portions. Also one of the last ones open at the event.
Great start, keep up the good work!

The best paninis in the area! Absolutely delicious – a must try when in downtown Madison!

Gili’s Paninis are FANTASTIC! Made to order as good as it gets! In addition to having a ton of flavor, mine was hot and fresh! Gili is super friendly too! You can really taste the quality he puts into his work.