At The Tasteful Trolley, pie is for breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert. Their rotating menu of entrée and dessert pies feature regional dishes baked and served from a vintage trolley car. Foods such as New Jersey hot dogs and Cincinnati chili are reinvented in pie or turnover form.  Breakfast gets the pie treatment with eggs, oatmeal and Greek yogurt as fillings. And of course, there is dessert pie, as well as cookies and other baked goods. The Tasteful Trolley is committed to using locally-sourced and organic ingredients. The menu will change seasonally based on availability. At any given time, the Trolley will serve six to eight entrée pies and two to three dessert pies while parked on the street. They also have a pie of the month club, and they can make gluten-free pies on request. 

You can find The Tasteful Trolley Saturdays at Toledo Farmer’s Market
and online at thetastefultrolley.com for other scheduled stops.

Snackers and sweet lovers find lots of goodies on sticks, from popsicles to suckers to corndogs. If Breanna Dellinger has her way, when people are looking for cake and cookies on sticks, her business Toledo Cake Pops will be ready. She makes the pops in a variety of flavors from boxed cake mix (or scratch for special requests) and frosts them. Decorations are possible, like “threads” on a baseball-inspired pop, as are special flavors like apple flavored cake with caramel frosting or chocolate covered strawberry cake. Breanna has already provided cake pops for school functions at St. Ursula Academy, where she is a senior, at wedding showers, birthday parties, and graduation dinners. She says people seem to appreciate the portability of the treat and the fun idea of a baked good on a stick. She tested her treats at a St. Ursula lunch period, and reports selling more than 200 in just a few minutes.

When she is not baking cake pops, Breanna makes special dog treats using an original recipe that avoids grains, but includes peanut butter, chicken bouillon, and ground flaxseed. She steers away from fillers used in commercial dog treats, which make her treats much cheaper than commercial brands. She tests her doggie treats with her own American Staffordshire Terriers, and sells the treats in three sizes (1/4”,  1/2” and 1”) at local dog shows. 

Interested party planners or dog “parents” can reach Breanna at Toledo Cake Pops at
[email protected] or 419 509-9059.

Rusty’s Road Trip, a food truck specializing in perch, is the tasty result of one local man’s journey from restaurant work to the corporate world and back to the food business again. After years spent as a lawyer and market researcher, Russ Courtney was inspired to return to the kitchen. A self-described well-travelled eater, Russ spent months perfecting his beer-battered perch and overhauling a delivery truck. Rusty’s Road Trip, a name that references Russ’s nickname and his departure from a 9 to 5 job, opened in January. The mainstay of the menu is beer-battered Lake Erie perch, a local delicacy that Russ felt was under-represented. Other offerings include gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches, mac-n-cheese and fried mac-n-cheese balls. 

To catch Rusty’s Road Trip, follow along at Rustysroadtrip.com, and on Facebook, Twitter and
Instagram. During the summer, Rusty’s is parked for lunch at Levis Square on
Thursdays and Madison and 10th Street on Fridays.