Fayetteville is an amazing place, but if there is one thing this city is lacking, it’s food trucks. Thanks to the fine folks at Hammontree’s Grilled Cheese, that situation will soon be improved.
Chad and Alison Hammontree today announced a soon-to-be mobile grilled cheese restaurant, “The Grillenium Falcon.”
The first location for the mobile restaurant hasn’t been determined, but Chad said that the owners of the lot in front of David’s Bridal (near the Mall Avenue Walmart) were very receptive to the idea of the lunch truck setting up shop there.
“We’re still scouting locations,” he said. “We’re going to find a place where people want us to be.”
Hammontree said that he plans to serve four of the most popular gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches from his restaurant and two new sandwiches in the truck. He also plans to serve a few salads, and several of his homemade soups.
The Hammontrees have been working on the 23-foot truck since October. Chad said most of the remodeling to outfit the truck for food service is complete, minus a few finishing touches.
“I’m hoping we’ll be open within a month,” Chad told us this morning. “It’s going to be sweet.”
Update: The Grillenium Falcon made its debut at the first ever Block Street Block Party on May 22, 2011. An image of the completed truck is below.
That’s awesome. Good job, Hammontrees!
OMG Fooooooooooodtrucks!
Grilled cheese and Star Wars. I think my husband would leave me for this truck.
Please come to the U of A campus!
hammontree’s is only like 3 blocks from campus as it is…
So awesome.
Dude. Yes.
greatest. food. cart. name. ever.
Come to North Fayetteville and get the business lunch crowd! Grubs is making a killing up here. Try some of the vacant commercial building parking lots on East Joyce. Wooohooo!
I’m still waiting for a piecycle.
I vote you come North, out of Fayetteville – hit up the Walmart crowd! I live in Rogers, but there’s no reason to come here, but Bentonville is so much closer for me :)
North side Fayetteville, U of A, and Bentonville are possible options we are looking into. Any other suggestions would be greatly accepted. Thank you guys for your support!
Relocate the brick and mortar restaurant to North/Mid-Fayetteville, then use the truck to bounce between those who work in Benton County on weekdays and everyone who hangs out in downtown Fayetteville for Dickson and Farmer’s Market on weekends. Win-win.
I bet George Lucas would be pissed.
UA crowd (students, faculty, & staff) will go berserk for this. I’ve been hoping for food trucks in Fayetteville for years – yay!
So, is it going to move to different locations throughout town periodically? That’d be sweet..
Brilliant idea. Genius name. Fantastic sammiches.
I would L.O.V.E to frequent Hammontree’s during my lunch hour in Rogers!! Its the central hub north of Fayetteville. A lot of development around the Promenade area…hope the Falcon can park there soon!
Whatever happened to JERRY’S food truck that once served the UA campus after hours?
Yuuummmmy!
YEP>>I’ll be following that TRUCK around I like this joint……….
North Fayetteville!!
So awesome.
Go somewhere that other food trucks could locate as well – maybe an empty parking lot (please not in front of David’s Bridal). You could eventually set up picnic tables and such.
You could start a food truck food court :)
This is nothing short of AWESOME!!
hell yes!
I swear I had this idea last year… I said too much apparently.
THIS WILL BE SO SPECTACULAR. Although I will say I’m not as excited to hear they are thinking about Bentonville. Kind of a random choice in my opinion. Either way though this is awesome!!!
Madeline – don’t forget, there are MANY folks who live downtown, but have to make the trek to the suburbs every morning! There are a lot of people crammed into Rogers and Bentonville that eat breakfast and lunch, and then beat the hell out of town to get back to someplace better.
This truck in a strategically located spot could do a killing in a limited time (1-2 days a week). Many of the trucks in Portland or Austin have built up a loyal following by serving good food, and using Twitter to keep all of their customers in the loop of where they will be during the work week.
Countdown to cease and desist from Lucasfilm in 3…2…1…
Yeah but how fast can it make the Queso run?
you sir, deserve 50 internet points. Brilliant.
I had their Brie’s Company at the Primus show Friday night. Highly recommended.