Zameen—the latest mobile unit offering up big, fresh Mediterranean/Middle Eastern hand foods—shown here with owner/entrepreneur Ed Watson. And this baby was designed expressly to cater to the food needs of UCSC students who tend to hang out around the Performing Arts parking lot. Music Students, digital arts students, painters, actors, serious students on their way to the library.
Lots of wraps, lots of roasted veggie, roasted meats, and hummus-intensive offerings, many featuring the housemade wood-fired pita bread that enfolds all those delicious flavors. Be smart and add a healthy dose of harissa or jalapeño sauce. Both are hot!
Hot! On site weekdays from 11:30 – 2:30.
Finally…a food truck. Why is Santa Cruz so far behind with this trend? So many communities have regularly scheduled well-organized food truck events with a wide variety of cuisines; we are more provincial than we think.
We lack the population base to support the low prices and no bar these trucks offer; simply put, food trucks cannot make it here and I would bet that Zameen will call it quits sometime next year.