Taim Mobile Review

I wanted something good for lunch and I wanted to try something new. So after scouring Midtown Lunch and checking out the food truck twitter feeds, I settled on Taim Mobile. It seemed hard to resist when Midtown Lunch declared that it "may be the best lunch truck in Midtown." Unlike the food truck-to-store evolution, Taim Mobile is a spin-off of a small storefront in the West Village.

On this day, the Taim Mobile truck was parked on the corner of 40th Street near Sixth Avenue, not far from Crisp, a brick and mortar falafel place with a few locations in the city. Intentionally engaging the competition?

The special of the day was spinach and jalapeño falafel, which I opted for over the classic falafel. At $6.50 for the sandwich, it was a dollar more than the classic. Taim bills itself as a falafel and smoothie truck, and I was tempted by the interesting-sounding smoothie combinations they had (namely, pear-mint-lemon) but decided to test out the food only on this first visit.

I thought this was a terrific falafel sandwich, crisply flavored and not greasy or heavy. And I was pleased that it wasn't heavy with garlic like too many falafel are. Several small falafel were cushioned in a dense mixture of chopped cucumbers and tart cabbage and smothered in white sauce. The whole wheat pita was soft and had a strong doughy flavor to it. I was disappointed, though, that the jalapeño seemed to be lost — the sandwich wasn't actually spicy.

I was content with the size of this sandwich, but not stuffed. It was a fair size for the price and for someone with a less ravenous appetite, this should be satisfying.