Off the Grid

Food was on point! Churro waffles, catfish po boy, crab fries were amazing. Def will be back. Delish.

Great food trucks, convenient, with live music. It’s so fun! Bring the kids. Sometimes there are kids activities.

The Menlo Park OtG is one of the best suburban markets in the South Bay.
Truck selection is generally decent– I enjoy The Chairman and new offerings like Me So Hungry Too.
Parking can be challenging in the small Caltrain lot. Arrive early for the best parking selection!
The bullet trains coming by are a little loud/​frustrating while one is trying to eat a $ 15.00 burger… LOL!

Bbq beef brisket and chicken are good. The cornbread muffin was perfect. They have three sauces to choose from. Live music and a lot of cool people. Can’t go wrong, every Wednesday.

Great first time experience. I’m used to NY food trucks… Off the Grid trumps food trucks I’ve been to in the past. The food options are great. I think I saw Mexican, BBQ, dessert and more. There’s plenty of space for you to enjoy your meal outside in one of the chairs provided by OTG. I ordered the pulled pork with baked beans from the BBQ spot. The potato salad was bomb! I loved it. Beans were ok. The pulled pork was great but the sauce they drizzled on top was amazing. When I go back I’ll see if they can drizzle the sauce and mix it in. I ate the top layer of pulled pork along with the sauce and I really wished I had more for the remaining pulled pork. My meal was about 10 bucks and they do take cards. Can’t wait to go back and try something else.

Had a great time at Off The Grid with my wife and students of Menlo College. Went to Los Tolucas Food Truck and the food was great! Meet Ellie and he was a great guy along with his staff!

This wasn’t hard to find with all the food trucks congregated by the caltrain. They allow event parking at the normal caltrain parking lot so parking wasn’t too hard to find. There are quite a few options: vietnamese, sushi burrito, BBQ, sliders, etc. I ended going for the kome food truck and got the crunch burrito to share. The spicy mayo was good with this. I personally think the sushi burrito is a little pricey for food coming from a food truck, but it was pretty good and I shared one with my friend and it was a good portion. I would love to come back to try the trucks!

Fun place for dinner. The pork belly bao at the chairman was delicious. Chicken tikka fries at curry up was just ok. Fried tofu at KorChiViet was also good but not great. They also close promptly at 8:00pm as we tried to get an ice cream puff unsuccessfully at 8:03. By 7:30 many trucks were also running out of food.

Today I saw a new truck: Dum — Indian Comfort/​Soul Food. Despite the funny name, I tried their Ragda Patties which were spiced potato cakes, stewed yellow peas, tamarind chutney, onion, cilantro @ $ 8.50. It was pretty tasty, but I think I’d try their biryani next time.
Off the Grid has been approved for the next five years at this location. Should be interesting to see what other trucks show up over time! :)

A very small «Off the Grid» event, but close to where I work in Palo Alto, so I was grateful regardless.
I had the Deconstructed Samosa (Curry Up Truck) and the Sweet Potato fries (Me So Hungry Truck). While the deconstructed samosa was amazing, unfortunately the sweet potato fries really left something to be desired :/​.
I would definitely come here again just because it’s such a close location! I came right when they started at 5:00PM, but parking really wasn’t an issue, there is plenty of street parking as well as a few spots for you to take near the event itself.

So happy that off the grid now comes to Menlo Park every Wednesday and I don’t have to drive up to SF to find gatherings of food trucks. There are about 5 – 10 trucks every time and off the grid provides chairs and bathrooms. Seating is not ample and most of the chairs are usually taken.
My favorite vendors here are the Chairman (get the pork belly bao!) and the Crème Brûlée truck. If you try Blendid — get the pay day smoothie. Last time they recommended the strawberry shortcake but it was so bad that we couldn’t finish it. I’ve gone pretty consecutively for the past couple of weeks and the other consistent trucks I’ve seen are the following:
The Chairman
Blendid
Crème Brulee
Me so Hungry
Chicken Waffle Truck
Gold Rush Truck
Kara’s Cupcakes (twice)
Seafood/​Chowder Truck
Parking tip: if no parking is available under Café Borrone, you can park near the Menlo Park Library and then walk over (only a 5 minute walk).

I love going to Off the Grid! A great way to sample all the different food trucks from the area. Each week is a different week, but you can check their website to see what offerings will be available that day. I’ve been here a few times and have had:
–Little Green Cyclo
–Blendid
–Sam’s Chowder Truck
–Koja Kitchen
Each week the selection varies. Sometimes there’s a live band that plays. There’s chairs where you could enjoy your food, but otherwise seating is limited. It can also get loud as the train passes by, but hey it’s at the train station.
Definitely a good thing to check out on Wednesday evenings!

I had never been to Off The Grid until just 2 weeks ago and I am so glad that I went. This particular location is literally like 5 minutes away from my job so as soon as I got off work I headed over there. I knew that the Waffle Roost was here so that was my main reason for coming but once I saw the big variety of food trucks with attractive looking menus and food I was blown away. I had arrived about 1 hour after it started so it was already crowded and full of people but I found that some of the food trucks are worth the wait. I really enjoyed myself here and am looking forward to giving the different food trucks a try.

This was my first Off the Grid experience and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. There were all sorts of people that come and a ton of families, so I highly recommend it if you have kids of all ages. You really feel a part of the community at these things. I would say there were about 8 or so trucks and all different so you have fun options to pick from. I thought the prices and what I ate were very reasonable for how good it tasted. There was one dessert truck that I felt was a bit overpriced but still nice to have tried it. It’s actually nice that there were two sweet trucks mixed in with all the savory ones. Free music, plenty of chairs. Only negative is that it’s right by the train station and when it passes by during the busy commute time, it’s a little rough on the ears but if you can forgive that every 30 minutes or so, come here and enjoy the other side of Menlo Park.

I’m so glad Off the Grid came down to Menlo Park! It seems to be more lively than the market in Belmont and a lot more trains stop here. Additionally, you can lock up your bike along the fence, there’s plenty of space.
The only downsides are that the seating is a bit tight and some of the lines get long. It’s usually worth the wait, though!

I went last week and it was so fun! There were 10 trucks and I had some delicious Philippino food and a chocolate crème brûlée, two of my favorites. There’s music and a bunch of people. It’s a great event to bring your family to, though there is a little bit of waiting around.

Now that we have longer evenings and warmer weather, it’s a perfect time to check this out. We went tonight and thoroughly enjoyed it. Nice selection of food trucks, live music, a decent amount of seating (folding chairs), friendly people, everyone having a good time.
Just look out when the bullet train goes flying by! WHOOOOSH!!!

Off the Grid keeps moving south. Im not complaining because that means more food choices each week. The city opened up the Caltrain station to 10 or so food trucks and a throng of crowds. Per their official tweet:
@Goldrusheatery @thewaffleroost @chairmantruck @karavan @lilgreencyclo @hiyaaaroll @mesohungrytoo @blendid @sanguchon_sf @samschowdermobile
were all the participants. Got a great chicken/​waffle sandwich some and some solid short rib sliders for dinner. Police presence was heavy but it was fairly well run. Some of the lines took a long time as I dont think they were expecting a crush for soft launch. Well, it can only get better from here. Looking forward to the weekly Wed rotating schedule