Meathead Mobile Eatery

The cheesesteaks are not very good here. The bread is soggy. The meat is greasy. The cheese tastes very processed. The service is friendly and the truck is nice, but the food just is not that good.

I’ll admit it, I was a sucker for their cool looking logo and truck…
I ordered the Oink Oink and it was just okay. It was a thick sliced pork vs. a shredded pork that many are used to. I am not a fan of slaw and I was sharing it with someone that is a fan, so they put it on half since they didn’t have little cups to put it on the side. It was certainly a large portion and the griddled bun was a nice touch. I do have to say that my sister did say, «the sauce is kind of like a kicked up Open Pit». I don’t mind that taste, but it is more of the orange-​y sauce than a sweet, brown sugar sauce.
It was a small wait, but it was organized and the service was friendly.

Food/​Cost: (²⁄₅) I came here for lunch today around 12:40pm and ordered the Oink Oink ($ 7 flat). I have a litany of things to say about my sandwich and very few of them are good. The cole slaw needs more zing — more mayo, more vinegar, more lemon. My friend and I both found small bone bits in our meat– that’s just unacceptable. Further, it’s strange to find slices of pork in my pulled pork sandwich instead of pulled, shredded pork. However, I could have embraced it as Meathead’s culinary contribution to the food world IF the pork had been cooked well. Unfortunately, it was not. It was dry and lacking in flavor. Perhaps Meathead could use thinner slices so that they’re easier to bite and drench it in the sauce instead of having the little spread of sauce on the bread? Still, there were a few redeeming elements: the size of my sandwich was huge and Meathead was not stingy with their meat. The amount of food you get for a low $ 7 is a definite plus. Ultimately, the ingredients are there for a making of a good sandwich, but Meathead needs kick up the flavors and cook the meat better.
Ambiance: (³⁄₅) I’m a fan of the red and black color combo and the truck is in tip-​top condition (perhaps b/​c Meathead is relatively new). However, there’s nothing special in terms of ambiance here — it is a truck I guess.
Location: (⁵⁄₅) Food that comes to you — great!
Service: (⁴⁄₅) The service here was friendly and fast, which is what I look for in a food truck.
Overall: (2.25÷5) I won’t be back again, especially with so many better food trucks around. Meathead, I know you’re a relatively new truck, but you’ll need to kick it up a notch — and fast — to keep up with this truck-​eat-​truck world.

A meat truck is good concept, but unfortunately Meathead does not stand out amongst the now crowded meat truck landscape (PORC Mobile and Carnivore, to name just two, serve much better sandwiches).
The major problem with Meathead isn’t the menu or the lines or the prices, but the fact the food just simply isn’t tasty. The moo moo sandwich I ate was a bunch of greasy strips of steak, topped with every topping imaginable (cheese, onions, lettuce, tomato, pickles), and tasted entirely like ketchup. The entire sandwich acted as a vehicle for the ketchup.
I’ve heard the pork sandwich is marginally better. So at least Meathead has that going for it?

Please be advised — this is not a pulled pork, chicken, or beef sandwhich of any kind. It is in the cheesesteak vein.

This was almost a full-​on food truck failure. The MEAT saved it from being a total bomb, as it should with a name like MEATHEAD.
I walked up to Farragut Square on a warm Friday afternoon, and there were a bunch of trucks there: El Floridiano, DC Slices, Sweetflow Mobile, The Austin Grill truck (really?), and of course, MEATHEAD. (I don’t know why I keep writing MEATHEAD in caps. It’s just seems fitting.)
I really wanted to try El Floridiano, but the line was massive. So I spotted MEATHEAD and decided to check it out. There was actually no line to order food, but there were quite a few people waiting. I should have turned around when I realized that and went back to El Floridiano, but I’m a slow learner.
So, I ordered a MOO-​MOO from MEATHEAD for $ 8. The MOO MOO is billed as a rib eye sandwich with caramelized onions, 3-​cheese sauce, pickles, tomatoes, lettuce, and mustard-​seed ketchup (whatever that is; it tasted like regular ketchup to me). Actually, that was about all I could taste was ketchup. There was not much cheese sauce. I got a satisfying bite of pickle now and again. But the ketchup masked the flavors. The roll was really generic as well. I pulled some MEAT out and ate that separately, and it was actually really tasty, but I think the concept for the sandwich just didn’t work.
I also had to wait about 20 minutes for my MEAT. I ran across the street to get an iced tea at Firehook, because all MEATHEAD was serving was Coca Cola. I certainly had enough time to do that. They also ran out of the OINK OINK (bbq pork with coleslaw) after people had ordered it and were waiting.
MEATHEAD needs to speed up their delivery and come up with some new sandwich ideas. There are too many food trucks out there that are better.

i got the meathead which has chicken, pork, beef, slaw, LTO, and cheese sauce.
reminded me of a highschool cafeteria cheese steak. the meats were salty, cheese sauce was basically cheez whiz, lettuce and tomato were not fresh at all, and the roll was from a megapack from costco. super bland. for the price, you do get a lot of food, just not tasty food.

my cluck cluck sandwich was overly salty ground chicken on soggy bread with too much of their «dijonaise sauce» which seemed like mayonaise and not enough of the promised lime vinagrette. definitely not what i was expecting. i don’t think i’ll go back again.

Last week I braved the cold to check out this new-​ish food truck.
I’m glad I did.
I was very pleased with the oink oink sandwich. It was a healthy portion and quite reasonable for the quality. There was a good amount of pulled pork and not too much sauce, with some delicious tangy coleslaw (not too much either!). I will totally get this sandwich again to enjoy in Franklin Park when it starts warming up!

I could have devoured 2 meathead sandwiches, they were so good! It’s big, it’s juicy, and it probably has a lot of Calories. Enjoy!:)

More like 3.5 Stars.
After receiving a friendly message from Meathead telling me that they have worked out many of their kinks since last week and would I please give them another chance, I figured why not? I am a reasonable guy, I believe in second chances, especially when that first chance was during the chaos of open day.
I have to say, my sandwich this time was much better. I don’t know what changed in the one week of operation but they are definitely on the right track. I went with the Meathead this time and it was pretty loaded with ingredients. It definitely looked like a full sandwich as opposed to the picture Justin C. posted. I really enjoyed the cooked onions and cole slow slathered on top of the sandwich. I couldn’t really taste the other sauces but that is fine. I think everything worked well together.
I wish I could give a higher rating but there still seemed to be a temperature problem. It took them less than 5 minutes to get my sandwich to me but by the time I parked at a bench next to the truck, the meat was not hot. I’m not sure why, I literally walked 20 feet and it was noon so it’s not like I got there too late for fresh meat or something.
Overall, I was definitely more impressed with my meal than last time. I think they still have some issues to work out but if they keep working on it and asking for feedback, I think there is potential to be a Farragut Friday favorite.

As Mike S. mentioned above, I too received a friendly message from Meathead’s powers that be, inviting me to try them out again and what’s more — my sandwich would be on the house! How rad is that?
In the spirit of Unilocal truthiness, I decided to get the same sandwich to do a fair comparison. It was honestly not the same sandwich.
The truck has apparently gotten their credit card processing capability up, no longer requires exact change, and now order numbers are printed on the receipt — which helps a lot with calling out folks’ sandwiches in order. They also have one guy outside the truck whose entire job is to pass out orders — very helpful.
The sandwich itself has improved by leaps and bounds. The meat is no longer dry, they laid off the heavy handed ketchup and ditched the pickles, and they totally upped the ante on the amount of meat and cheese on the sandwich. It was flavorful and good.
My lunch bunch buddy decided to get the Oink Oink, which had also improved in the amount of meat and sauce, and reduced the amount of cole slaw — which he mentioned tasted sweet and not as much like horseradish.
Still some kinks to work out (they gave me my sandwich, then took it away and gave it to someone with the same order number as me, and then gave it back to me?) but this is a great improvement.
I appreciate that they made an effort to reach out to their customers and I will be back.

The flagship sandwich the «Meathead» is somewhat aptly named. The descriptions sound fantastic (creamy coleslaw!, 3 special bbq sauces!, 3 meats!, caramelized onions! creamy cheese!) yada yada yada), but the end result is something a meathead might have put together.
If you are a lug, you might like this sandwich («me want meat! No want grass on food!»). It’s filled with tasty enough meats (bit on the dry and salty side though), But the rest of the condiments neither looked special nor up to their fluffed up descriptions, and they didn’t really balance out the sandwich. Didn’t really look so much like coleslaw as just tomatoes and lettuce/​cabbage. Cheese was not really recognizable. The bbq sauce was hardly on the bun at all — I want it smothered on my sandwich! The caramelized onions were about the only things that lived up to their description, and those were also sparingly dished out.
Look, we are a foo-​foo, snobby, health conscious, East Coast den of socialists here in Washington, DC. You can’t just slop some meat on a piece of bread with a sparing dose of vegetables and sauces/​cheeses. I want flavor, texture, and balance.
Like I said, if you are one of those people who thinks it is perfectly natural to have a grilled hamburger with just some buns and ketchup/​mustard (really, a national health tragedy), then this may be your sandwich. If you can’t eat a burger without lettuce, tomatoes, onions, pickles, mayo, ketcup, mustard, etc., etc., then I really can’t recommend this sandwich for $ 9 dollars ($ 4-​$ 5 maybe).

Got the «moo moo», wish I’d got the «oink oink». As the other reviewers said, it seemed like any other cheesesteak you’d get in a deli around here but with ketchup instead of mayo.

Got the moo moo, sandwich was okay at best. Pretty much same as any other faux cheesesteak I could get around DC, except it cost $ 8, which is too much for this. For that price would come with fries/​chips at any brick & mortar sandwich place in DC. Cheese sauce was virtually non-​existent and the meat/​bun ratio was off, so either more steak (which could justify price) or use a shorter bun & have it bursting with food (that is more appealing & proper for a steak sandwich). Also, chopped onion, not sliced, would meld better with the chopped steak, though that may just be my personal preference.
I give credit for not using the word Philly in the title since it wasn’t a true philly cheesesteak, but it was too close to philly style to be done in this lackluster manner. Up your game, gentleman, this truck not up to your standards (taste or originality) that have been set by sauca.
Bottom line, completely forgettable sandwich

I’d probably give this a solid 3.5 stars if they did half stars, but I’m perfectly fine giving them a 4 as opposed to a 3. It’s got room for improvements, but it’d say overall, they serve up solid sandwiches. They are decent sized and reasonably priced.
If you want to get a good idea of what the different sandwich offerings are like, I’d probably recommend getting the individual sandwiches (moo moo, cluck cluck or oink oink) and skip on the meathead which combines all 3 into one. I tried the moo moo which is a modified version of a cheesesteak. The beef was thinly sliced and moist. There was a lot of it in the sandwich, and a lot of carmelized onions. They seem to put a lot of onions in it, which I didn’t mind. If you don’t like onions, you could probably tell them to go easy on the onions. I didn’t mind the mustard seed ketchup. I could see the mustard seed in it. I wouldn’t have a problem if it was Heinz ketchup, since it’s probably one of the best brands of ketchup. I think they need to modify the cheese sauce though. I suspect that it’s a very thin cheese sauce that’s being absorbed by the meat and the bread because it seems non-​existent by most people’s accounts. The lettuce, tomatoes and pickle were OK, but had little impact on the over sandwich.
One of my buddies had the cluck cluck and he said it was good. He said he’d go back for it again, so I might try that one next time. Someone else had the oink oink, and he enjoyed it too. He loved the bbq sauce.
Service-​wise, they were pretty good. We were probably the first ones there, as there wasn’t a line. We rolled up in a group of 9 people and we didn’t experience any problems. In fact, they were pretty quick. I didn’t need exact change like others have reported. So it was probably first day change issues. Most of the guys paid with cards. Sandwich orders were fulfilled quickly. 3 orders in and the first sandwich was already out. We were probably done in about 10 – 12 min. I think most people would agree that 9 orders in 10 min is very reasonable. I don’t know how they would handle a 20 – 30 person line, but time will tell. I’d say my experience was a pleasant one.

Well I certainly couldn’t go to MeatHead Mobile Eatery and not order the 3 meat special sandwich, it just wouldn’t be like me. So once again I braved the opening day spectacle that seems to follow a food truck launch, waited in line the obligatory 45 minutes or so, and plopped down my tax-​free order. Forget the fact I had just consumed a container of Cap Mac’s mac-​n-​cheese (no really, it’s entirely forgettable), I was ordering this damn thing today.
There was a bit of bungling right from the start, as the crew apparently decided to take their own lunch break prior to prepping the truck, so as a line formed there was nobody to be seen in the truck. As it drew closer to noon, they made an announcement it would take them about 30 minutes to get setup, even though the truck had been parked for half an hour already with nobody working. This is a bit surprising from the folks behind the Sauca creation, with the additional surprise that there was virtually no pre-​opening hype for this truck. I literally just heard about it yesterday, a rarity in this business where word on the street is everything.
Thankfully, I was one of the first in line, so I didn’t have to deal with the ordeal that occurred just 5 orders in, where they had already run out of change and were taking exact amounts only in the window. How in the world they neglected to also go to the bank before opening is beyond me. It seemed like the guy was just pulling cash out of his pocket, I didn’t even see a mock till. Another note on prices, the only drinks they serve are water, coke, and diet coke, at $ 2 a piece… a bit absurd considering the dozens of hotdog stands right by them sell the exact same thing for 50 cents.
As for the actual sandwich? It was good. But don’t you want something more than that for a $ 9 hoagie supposedly stuffed (
) with every ingredient on the menu? I did. The bun is done well, and suffices for the amount of toppings, the problem is so much of what is promised is lost. Here’s what’s supposed to come on the sandwich: steak, pork, chicken, creamy cole slaw, caramelized onion, «triple cheese sauce», and 3 other signature sauces. Pretty much all I tasted were beef and BBQ sauce, and while I’m sure most of the other ingredients were there they were absent in flavor. Also, their «cole slaw» is simply diced lettuce, a completely falsification. Quite sure I got none of that cheese sauce either.
I may return for another go-​round, and probably stick to one of the singular meat sandwiches the next time, but it’s going to be a while. They definitely have quite a few kinks to iron out before their worthy of my business again.