Cheap Eats: Denver Street Food

Looking for cheap, tasty food with a dose of fresh air and sun?  Head over to Civic Center Park on Tuesdays and Thursdays between 11 and 2 for a food truck corral: the Civic Center EATS Outdoor Cafe.  There, you'll find shaded seating surrounded by 25 different trucks, serving everything from tacos to ice cream sandwiches.

The hubs and I went on Tuesday and made the rounds.  We started at the Cupcake Truck (I have a vicious sweet tooth) where we got Vanilla and Lemon cupcake.  

Then we hit up Stick it to Me for some Korean BBQ Organic Beef on a skewer.  It was dripping with flavor and really tender!

The hubs at Stick it to Me

After that we parted ways.  The hubs went to Pinche Tacos where he got Tacos la Lenguas.  I went to Quiero Arepas where I got the vegan arepa.  We reconvened to devour our food on the steps of the amphitheatre where I discovered my love for said arepa.  Seriously, if you've never had one, do it now!  They are made of a corn-meal bread that is baked to a crisp and filled with delicious ingredients, which in my case included plantains, black beans and avocados.  It made for a really tasty mix of flavors and textures and was pretty filling.  The hubs really enjoyed his lengua taco too, as told by the fact that he inhaled it within a minute.  The taco consisted of beef tongue tacos with onions, avocado, tomatillo salsa and guajillo honey mayo.  The hubs described it as "very tender, and the mayo added just the right amount of kick to play off the freshly squeezed lime juice."

(sorry for the lack of pictures.  I promise to deliver more food pics next time!)

We were stuffed, so we had the cupcakes later in the day and they were AMAZING!  The Lemon was both our favorite, with perfectly sweet/tart lemon cake and cream cheese frosting.  The Vanilla was also delicious with a moist vanilla cake, vanilla frosting and sprinkles.

Civic Center EATS will get you fed and on your way for well under $10.  It's also a great setting for networking* lunches, which is where I plan on having my next one!

*more on networking in a later post