Lunch made easy: Food trucks at your fingertips

But with so many mobile lunch counters on the streets of Minneapolis and St. Paul, how can you keep track of them all? You could take a walk to Marquette Avenue or Rice Park and hope for the best. You could follow a dozen or more Twitter feeds and spend half your lunch hour searching through them all. Or you could just click on City Pages' newly updated and incredibly handy Food Truck Map and find them all at your fingertips. Just click on a truck icon to find a favorite food cart near your location and get connected instantly to its Twitter page or website, where you'll find its daily location and what's on the menu.

The map is a work in progress--constantly updated as new trucks hit the streets. So forget the sack lunch or the same old fast food. Just bookmark our map and try a new food truck today.

City Pages Food Truck Map

Previous coverage:
So You Want to Start a Food Truck
Twin Cities Food Trucks: A Photo Tour

Minnesota Lunch: From Pasties to Banh Mi edited by James Norton ($19.95)
Lunch is arguably the most neglected meal, what with the plethora of leftovers and increasing convenience of simply slabbing some lunch meat on bread and sticking it in a paper bag. Minnesota Lunch, however, will make you rethink that easy option. Written by Heavy Table editor James Norton, along with Jill Lewis, Susan Pagani, and Lori Writer, Minnesota Lunch covers meals across the entire state, and it includes stories, regional histories, mouth-watering photographs, and great recipes.

Kowalski's will be pesented with a lump of coal from UFCW 1189 at a demonstration this afternoon

The union, UFCW 1189, has been negotiating its contract with Kowalski's since last January, but the two sides cannot come to an agreement on key issues. Today the union is taking its message public with a demonstration at the St. Paul Kowalski's on Grand at 4 p.m..

"I think you'll see the Grinch there. I think you'll see Santa," said Bernie Hesse, UFCW political director. "I've got a really good feeling you'll see a pile of coal there."