Lasagna Plus

This represents three people who tried L+ today and ate together.
The Chicken Parm was at best rated ‘edible.’ My colleague who ate it said he wouldn’t throw it out because he’s too cheap, but it was not enjoyable. He thought there was way too much balsamic dressing on the salad, making it almost inedible.
The ground beef lasagna was acceptable but was much more like moussaka than lasagna. It was clearly made by someone Greek, not Italian. It was not offensive, but not what your mouth expects when you’re thinking lasagna. The portion was more than satisfying.
The meatballs in sauce were fine. They were not hard industrially produced meatballs, which was nice. I could cut them with a fork. The tomato sauce is rather thin and rather sweet. I was glad I did not order the meatball sub as the bread is like an ordinary sub roll, as another reviewer noted. Plus, they were going to make it with American cheese, which did not sound at all appetizing.
I appreciated that the salad greens were freshly tossed to order, though the dressing was a bit heavy.

The Lasagna Plus truck is dependable, like school cafeteria lunch. I mean that in the most sincere way possible. If this were a K-​12 cafeteria style tray lunch, it would be a day I would have bought lunch as opposed to bring it from home. However, it wouldn’t be as awesome as pizza, steak-​um, or baked potato bar day.
Today I ordered the Classico, and the lasagna was fine. It had lasagna noodles, tomato sauce, ground beef, and cheese, and though it could use more seasoning (pepper, basil, and/​or oregano), it didn’t offend in any way. The lasagna came with a solid side salad with mixed greens, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes and banana peppers. Lasagna Plus was a bit heavy-​handed with the vinaigrette, but if not for that, the salad would be a solid 4.
The Classico also came with bread. Though it was fresh, it just seemed to be the unused half of a sub roll. It tasted fine, but I’d have preferred to pay less and not have it at all.
Just under $ 9 is a bit steep for the Lasagna Plus experience, especially when you consider I could get something similar in my public high school cafeteria for about $ 2.15. Then again, that was a total steal, and ages ago.

I tried the Classico (ground beef lasagna) combo with salad and a slice of bread. They give you a very large portion of lasagna but it was just okay. It wasn’t awful but it was kind of greasy, runny, and didn’t have too much flavor. The side salad was pretty good and I like that it had banana peppers on top, the bread was just a slice of generic Italian bread that tasted like it was from the grocery store.
This truck gives you a lot of food and the service was friendly but given the truck options in DC I wouldn’t put this at the top of my list unless I really wanted lasagna and it was the only truck around.

You’re better off just skipping this one, even though at $ 10 for their whole combo meal it’s a decent amount of food (
) per dollar.
It takes a lot to uninspire me from writing a detailed review, if that tells you how bland this food was. In all honesty the best thing they offered was the Miss/​Granny/​Auntie Smiths/​Fields/​whatever packaged cookie, and I don’t even like chocolate chip.
Also, they gave me Diet Coke when I asked for regular and of course I don’t notice until I get back to the office because I pretty much never drink soda and apparently the holiday cans are almost identical. Have you ever tried to drink Diet Coke? That shit is disgusting.

I had Lasagna+‘s two vege dishes, one a Florentine, the other a mushroom based lasagna. Both were overcooked, soggy noodles drowned in an almost rotten way over salted cream sauce. The noodles were actually a greyish brown color, very unappetizing. The salad was pretty standard fare but again drowned, this time in an overly vinegar vinaigrette that made me actually choke. The Parmesan cheese was store bought canned, dry, boring, powder. Same with the cookie. Frankly I’ve had better microwaved tv dinner lasagna.
There are some really really good trucks in DC these days. Sadly this is not one of them.

Definitely not as good as the truck they are blatantly copying, but still pretty darn tasty. Quick and friendly service. Lasagna and salad were very good, cookie was OK (I’m pretty sure they don’t make the cookies, so could’ve been different than the one the previous reviewer had). I wish they’d been a little more creative in their copy-​catting, but once you get past that and focus on the food it’s quite good.

I was so excited to see another lasagna food truck I could hardly contain myself when I had heard earlier in the week that Lasagna Plus hit the streets a few days before it hit up Union Station/​North Capitol and Mass. this past Friday (¹²⁄₂).
I got there around 12:15 or so and there was one person in front of me. I opted to go for the combo which includes your choice of lasagna, salad, chocolate chip cookie and a soda for $ 10. I got the Classico which is exactly how it sounds, the classic style lasagna with ground beef. Service was sort of slow, but friendly enough and it is a new truck so that wasn’t a big deal. BTW, when I ordered the «Number 1», the guy that was warming up the food who I assume is the owner of the truck was like, «Which one is that?» I replied, «The Classico lasagna.» He was like, «Oh yeah, sorry I made that sign a few days ago, I forget.» Eek. there’s not that many choices and he should at least have memorized his own menu numbers when there’s all of FIVE listed on there. Okay… well. So, it smelled nice and I couldn’t wait to dig in.
It was kind of messy looking and well, let me just say, this was no Basil Thyme. Sorry, folks. This lasagna had overcooked pasta and it just reminded me of the lasagna you can get at Sabbaro or even your college cafeteria. The robust flavors that you would expect from the sauce just was not present. Too much sauce too, so it was drowning in a sea of it. This was not a good thing since the sauce wasn’t very good. I did however, really enjoy the side salad. The banana peppers were a nice touch a top the salad as well. The lasagna also had two thin bread sticks plopped on top, but that did not add anything to the dish. I’d get rid of those. Then the chocolate chip cookie that comes with it was the hard variety and very Chips Ahoy-​like. It was just meh. and it was small, just slightly bigger than a Chips Ahoy cookie. I have to say, it was a disappointing experience unfortunately. I don’t think I will be a repeat customer.