Seabirds Food Truck: An excellent choice for your mobile food needs

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She's sometimes busy cooking, so ordering isn't always instantaneous, but the bit of a wait is always worth it. (Marc C. Perkins)
Chef Stephanie Morgan of Seabirds takes an order.

Gourmet food trucks are all the rage right now in Southern California. Luckily for me, there’s a gathering of them every Thursday from 11-2pm at the Orange County Fairgrounds, which is just a short walk from my office at OCC. And there are other meetups nearby as well: SoCo Collection has food trucks Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturday at lunch and Fridays for dinner.

A colorful menu for colorful food that's differnet from your typical food truck sliders and quesadillas. I got there too late to enjoy their breakfast fare (that whole waking up early thing is hard). (Marc C. Perkins)
A colorful menu for colorful food that's different from your typical food truck sliders and quesadillas. I got there too late to enjoy their breakfast fare (that whole waking up early thing is hard).

Many trucks focus on meat, meat, and more meat, possibly with fries on the side. While this is delicious and all, there’s a decided lack of non-potato vegetables and non-meaty entrees. Don’t get me wrong; Louks has their delicious felafel gyro, Chomp Chomp has a great tofu burger, Flying Pig has their crunchy tofu bun, Crepes Bonaparte has a variety of non-meat fillings, Spud Runners has excellent grilled cheese sandwiches, and Chunk ‘n Chip’s ice cream sandwiches are to die for, but my favorite truck has to be Seabirds.

At Seabirds, their specialty is fresh and flavorful vegan burritos, tacos, burgers, soups and more. But don’t let the vegan designation scare you away: their food is delicious.

You know you want to try some of Seabrids's Jerk Jackfruit Tacos :) (Marc C. Perkins)
You know you want to try some of Seabirds's Jerk Jackfruit Tacos 🙂 They take jackfruit, process it so that it's somewhat meat-like in texture, and then coat it in Jamaican Jerk spices; it's delicious topped with salsa in a fresh corn tortilla.

They do wonderful things with jackfruit; the taco above is probably my favorite menu item. Another fan favorite is their beer-battered avocado tacos:

The Seabirds avocado tacos come as a pair, and they won't last long. I was told that the cabbage had been cut wrong for this batch; I wasn't complaining (and it tasted amazing, as always). (Marc C. Perkins)
The Seabirds avocado tacos come as a pair, and they won't last long. I was told that the cabbage had been cut wrong for this batch; I wasn't complaining (and it tasted amazing, as always).

Their homemade burgers and sweet potato fries are also good:

A Seabirds Burger: tomato, lettuce, onion, and thousand island dressing on a whole-wheat bun with a homemade seedy, nutty patty. Today's was just delicious. (Marc C. Perkins)
A Seabirds Burger: tomato, lettuce, onion, and thousand island dressing on a whole-wheat bun with a homemade seedy, nutty patty.
My dedicated assistant kindly holding a dipped sweet potato fry for the camera. There was no sauce left in our cup at the end of the day. (Marc C. Perkins)
My dedicated assistant kindly holding a dipped sweet potato fry for the camera. There was no sauce left in our cup at the end of the day.

Seabirds’s menu changes pretty frequently, and these pictures were taken a few months ago, so you may not find exactly these items when you visit them.  But whatever you get is bound to be tasty.

Conflict of Interest Disclaimer: Sadly, Seabirds did not give me any free tacos (or any other compensation) to write this review.  It just sounds like it.

More pictures

To see more pictures of Seabirds’s food, head to my Seabirds Food Truck Gallery., and to see pictures of a few other food trucks’ food, check out my Food Truck Gallery.

Getting There

Seabirds is a mobile gourmet food truck in Orange County, California, so they don’t hang around one location very long. Check out their website and Twitter feed (@SeabirdsTruck) to see where they’ll be any given day.

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