A new food items truck has opened in the Bangor place, and its owners Zac and Anna LaPierre are heading all in on a delicacies they each know and love: barbecue.
This Lil Piggy, which had its inaugural weekend last Saturday at the Brewer Auditorium, will present up smoked barbecue together with baked items at locations all-around the Bangor location, as perfectly as catering for gatherings.
The LaPierres achieved though both of those have been performing at Texas Roadhouse, wherever Zac, 32 — at first from Milford — was a broil cook and later on kitchen supervisor, and Anna, 25 — who hails from Dedham — was a server and bartender. They have been drawn to each individual other’s work ethic, and shortly fell in enjoy.
“Busy dining establishments tend to different the wheat from the chaff relatively immediately,” Zac LaPierre reported. “It takes a special kind of person to endure feeding 1,000 people today with a smile on their face, and we are each people kinds of folks.”
After COVID strike and matters like takeout and outdoor eating turned much more and much more commonplace in the restaurant marketplace, they understood they would be in a great situation to strike out on their very own and capitalize on individuals changes.
“The foods truck thought really acquired launched with COVID,” Anna LaPierre reported. “As individuals became more accustomed to distinctive food stuff supply methods, we recognized that we could undertake this undertaking with just the two of us.”
When Anna is the baker, concocting an array of cookies, brownies and other sweet treats, Zac is the pitmaster. Soon after many years functioning in a meat-centric kitchen like the 1 at Texas Roadhouse, he is familiar with his way close to a slice of meat.
“It’s a labor of adore,” Zac LaPierre said. “Our brisket usually takes 14 several hours, get started to end, and each knife stroke in the trimming process, every single spritz and rotation of the meat through cooking, and thickness of every slice ahead of we sell influences the finished product or service.”
The pair commenced setting up out their food items truck late past year, and were finally all set to open This Lil Piggy final weekend.
The principal attraction is, of study course, the barbecue, with brisket, ribs, pulled pork and burnt finishes normally on the menu, accessible as a platter or in sandwiches. Sides include things like mac and cheese, cornbread, coleslaw, collard greens and fries. Anna’s new baked brownies, cake pops and cookies round out the menu.
This Lil Piggy will be at the Brewer Auditorium parking lot starting up at 11 a.m. on April 9 and 23, right until all meals is sold out. The truck will also be at Circle 2 Disc Golf in Bradford commencing at midday on April 16, and at Vibes Cannabis in Bangor starting up at midday on April 20. Additional constant dates will come later on on in the summer months.
Pre-orders and catering inquiries can be created on the This Lil Piggy web page.