Midnight Snack DBQ

There's a many places in Dubuque that it'd describe as beautiful. After trying Roux & Lucia for the first time, it has now joined that list. Roux & Lucia is a quaint bakery on Bryant St, across from the school that shares the same name as the street. It's been on my watchlist for a while, but I haven't had a chance to stop by. I saw they had recently added ice cream to their menu and were working on opening an eatery so I thought I'd try it out. I did not know their parking lot had 9 parking spots. My car eats curbs for breakfast and so the Roux & Lucia employees may have watched me struggle a bit. Turns out I entered on the wrong side. I need to mention that this is out of Roux's control and moreso on the odd patch of property. It's on the "corner" of South Grandview and Bryant. Corner is a generous word for this acute angle they were given to put a shop on. The inside was equally as compact. A large  metal shelf and a very nice employ...

I'm a big fan of food trucks. Is it inconvenient to shout over the motor? Sure. Have I gotten a nasty sunburn waiting for my food before? Yes, but that's on me for having Irish heritage and not wearing sunscreen. Overpriced sometimes? No regular quesadilla should be anywhere near 15 dollars. Have I gotten violently ill from one truck in town that I will not name? You bet! (I genuinely started drafting my will, it got so bad.) If you ignore all that, the food is pretty good. There's a good amount of food trucks running around Dubuque. Tracking them is pretty simple if you have a Facebook account. Tons of groups out there to track them down. Usually, trucks post their schedule in the groups on Mondays, which is very convenient. There are two staples in town, Hangry Hobo and Hibachi Time. Today we'll be tackling Hibachi Time, purely because for some reason they're always in very convenient proximity to me. Kinda suspicious if you ask me. It could also be because they...