FENTON, MI – Smokin Road Tacos, Large Load Nachos, Soiled Smoked Burritos, and Barbeque Black Beans.
D&W’s Road Eatery, a Fenton-based meals truck, advertises as a Latin American restaurant and has the whole lot folks search for, together with a vegan possibility.
Dana Ahrenberg started working in eating places at 14 years previous, and is the mom of two daughters — Wesley and Wiley. Therefore, the title of her meals truck.
D&W’s Road Eatery has been in enterprise for six years. Ahrenberg comes from a household of mechanics and has at all times been round autos.
Mixing her love for meals and vehicles — proudly owning a meals truck made an excessive amount of sense.
“The meals is nice for you,” Ahrenberg mentioned. “I got here up with all the recipes alone. We have now vegan choices and we’re gluten free pleasant.”
The Smokin Road Tacos include a 6-inch fried flour tortilla, protein, topped with thinly sliced purple cabbage, tomatoes, inexperienced onions, cotija cheese and BBQ glaze.
The Large Load Nachos have corn tortilla chips, protein, loaded with black beans, corn, salsa, melted cheddar, bitter cream, cotija cheese, tomatoes, inexperienced onions and BBQ glaze.
D&W’s provides smoked BBQ pulled pork, apple smoked hen and cilantro garlic beef.
Ahrenberg additionally owns D&W’s Occasions, a weddings, occasions and events meals truck enterprise.
Each meals vehicles are continuously touring round mid-Michigan, however Ahrenberg is working seven days per week with various hours.
“I simply want I may clone myself and be in every single place,” she mentioned. “However actually, it’s simply it’s sort of easy to me to be sincere, as a result of I’ve such a ardour for it. So I actually simply like it.”
She identified “essentially the most tough half is discovering different people who have that very same ardour to do it with you and work facet by facet and take satisfaction in giving that presentation. So we’ve got a extremely small crew.”
Ahrenberg has an upcoming event in Howell on Oct. 28-29 with the Impractical Jokers, a success TV present the place three comedians and lifelong pals compete to embarrass one another amongst most of the people with a sequence of hilarious and outrageous dares.
“These guys are vegan they usually couldn’t consider how nice the meals was,” Ahrenberg mentioned, who beforehand did an occasion with the Impractical Jokers.
On Saturday, Oct. 15, D&W’s will compete on the Howell Meals Truck Rally at Howell Summit Gardens, 219 N. Walnut St., in Howell.
From overcoming flat tires on the street, hour-and-a-half drives, and the whole lot in between, Ahrenberg and her daughters should not slowing all the way down to showcase what they check with as “Eatertainment.”
“I simply love sharing this meals with folks,” she mentioned. “Some folks aren’t used to making an attempt one thing totally different after which once I see they get pleasure from our meals, I simply like it.”
Observe D&W’s Road Eatery on Facebook.
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