Burgerlicious

I receive a fair amount of (mostly) good-natured teasing regarding how much I focus on burgers and food trucks here.  So, for all of those people, here's a review about a burger truck!



Cacicia's Old World Sicilian Foods

I've long had a soft spot for food trucks.  Hell, my first post on this blog three years ago was about a  food truck.  Since then trucks have come and gone, standards have risen, and diversity is the name of the game now.  Cacicia's Old World Sicilian Foods isn't the first Italian food truck we've had in Boise, but it's definitely the best.  So much so that I ate there three times during their first week in business and have, with a little help, eaten my way through almost their entire menu.




Stan's Char-Broiled Hot Dogs (CLOSED)

I am an Idaho native.  Born and raised.  I've been able to do some limited traveling, but I've only really lived one other place.  In my early 20's, I lived in Buffalo for about two years.  Even after that, I never did understand the Buffalo wing craze (and I still don't), but there were a few other food items that I became fond of.  In 2007, about five years after I returned to Idaho, Stan's Char-Broiled Hot Dogs opened up in the Vista Village shopping center in Boise.  Suddenly I was able to get most of the things I missed about Buffalo, right here at home.

I've been eating at Stan's for years, and I have no excuse for not writing them up sooner.  I never seem to have enough time to write, and there are always a few places I've visited queued up, and every once in a while I just don't get around to actually doing the review.  Eventually I find myself looking through my pictures and realize that it's too late.  Too much time has passed, the chef has changed, I don't remember what the food tasted like...but that's not the entire issue with Stan's.  I think that sometimes I am reluctant to write up a place, because that means on to the next one.  As long as I haven't cranked out a review, I can always go back and try one more dish, take slightly better pictures, blah blah blah.  It's a lame excuse, I know, but that doesn't make it any less true.  And apparently it's a habit I need to break myself of, because it seems like lately places I've visited are closing before I get around to writing the reviews.  Stan's played a little nicer, announcing last week that they'll be shutting their doors at their current location for good on 9/1.  I'll repeat that one more time, because it's important:  STAN'S CHAR-BROILED HOT DOGS WILL BE CLOSING THEIR RESTAURANT IN LESS THAN FOUR WEEKS.  If you've been wanting to check them out but you've been dragging your feet, you might want to get off your keister.  If you're on the fence, let's see what I can do to motivate you.