Food Trucks: Los Angeles

Today we stopped by the Food Truck Festival in Santa Anita, which featured many Los Angeles food trucks. Neither of us have encountered a food truck to eat from in LA so this was a first time for the both of us.

First we went to the back of a long line for the Grilled Cheese Truck since we had seen it on an episode of Eat Street on the Cooking Channel. The wait was over an hour so as we waited we ate a deep fried banana pastry which was delish, an iced coffee, and Chana Masala from an Indian Food Truck (Spicy but not flavorful).
The Lovely Line: 

From the Grilled Cheese Truck we ordered the Brie Melt (double cream brie, fig paste, and smokehouse almonds, on black peppercorn potato bread & we added sliced apples). It was pretty good; gooey cheese, balanced flavors, and toasty bread- maybe not over an hours wait good, but I didn't mind.

The most wonderful experience came after the Grilled Cheese. We went to get ice cream sandwiches from Coolhaus since we read an article about them in a magazine. They were the most incredibly delicious ice cream sandwiches either of us have ever encountered. And we don't even like ice cream very much, we are more gelato people. But their homemade ice cream and cookies cannot be beat!

On the left is a Snicker doodle cookie with Balsamic Fig and Mascarpone ice cream (it had a perfect balance between sweet and even a bit tangy, do not shy away from this strange sounding flavor!)
& on the right is a Chocolate cookie with Dirty Mint Chip Ice Cream ( a wonderful combo, the cookie was moist and the ice cream is refreshingly minty with actual bits of mint scattered throughout). 

Coolhaus also uses edible wrappers made out of potato, so there is no trash once you finish your delectable treat. And they put a heaping scoop of their ice cream between the cookies. We highly recommend tracking them down when you are in the LA area, they will also soon have a shop in Culver City! 
Attending the festival was worth it purely because of the ice cream sandwiches.