fling week has arrived on Penn campus…and we couldn’t be more excited to be a part of it!
spring fling 2012 “Never Tasted So Sweet!”
find us on college green on Saturday (4/15) from 8pm-12am. we are coming with a truck full of our French Macarons and Penn is treating YOU students for all of your hard work so far this year!
have fun, stay safe, happy fling!
We hinted at it in our last post. We want to make it a sweet day for our great customers. If you didn’t know, we made it into the top 20 best food trucks in the nation! We have no idea how, but we do know it was because of you great customers!
Therefore for today, we’re gonna give away small bags of our mini macarons! They’ll resemble the size of the macarons you get elsewhere, just not as big as our normal ones. Of course, there’s only a limited amount and in recognition for being in the top 20, most likely the first 20 customers will get to enjoy these little free treats. However we want to know more about you too.
So it’s not just the first 20 customers, it’s the first 20 customers to bring us their list of their top 20 favorite things in this world. I know it’s hard to think of such a long list, but try your best! And don’t worry, Sugar Philly doesn’t have to be on that list. We just like you and want to know what you like!
And for those that are curious, here is our list:
Holy moly!!! We were named one of the top 20 food trucks in the nation by Smithsonian Magazine! Do you know what this means???? This means…..
Actually we don’t know what this means. In fact, we don’t even know what to say. We’re speechless honestly. This is a total surprise and we would never have imagined it. It was only yesterday that Yahoo named us a top truck and now more than a year later this.
What we can say though is this isn’t about us. It’s all about you; all of you who talk about us, tweet about us, and enjoy us. Chef Dan will definitely tell you there is nothing better than when our customers are smiling when they bite into our desserts. We are just blessed to have all of you support us. Because of all of you, we are so honored to be among such great company. This has definitely made it a sweet day and we’ll try to make it sweet for you guys too. 
Read the article here: Smithsonian Magazine – “The 20 Best Food Trucks in the United States”
it’s that wonderful time of the year, where love is in the air! it just so happens, that love and sweets are very closely related, and we got you covered!
this valentine’s day, we have a perfect package for you to reserve to make sure your sweetheart is smiling on the 14th
*a portion of each sale will be going to our friends at The Supply, a non-profit who builds secondary schools for slum children to empower them to ignite transformation within their slums. (find out more about them through www.thesupply.org)
DETAILS:
Penn/Drexel Students order here (Macaron-Gram on-campus delivery!): http://tinyurl.com/macarongram
FB Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/298723686847525/
Not a Penn/Drexel student? No problem! Please pre-order your French Macaron V-Day Package between 2/7-2/10 with us by stopping by the truck or emailing info@sugarphillytruck.com (Package pick-up @ Truck on 38th/Walnut on 2/14)
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY EVERYONE!
Did you ever wonder how Sugar Philly made some of their desserts? Well guess what? You weren’t the only one!
Team Sugar Philly actually was able to offer a dessert making class at the wonderful COOK kitchen started by Audrey Claire. The kitchen (and obviously the people) were amazing not to mention the beautiful windows to see people passing by, great collection of cooking books on the shelves, and the best little pantry of kitchen essentials (we miss you glass milk carton!). But what is a perfect setting without the perfect star. Chef Tang was like a celebrity chef blazing through 3 of our recipes and a few of our secrets while sharing a few stories. Most importantly though we hope everyone had a good time, learned something new, and got a little taste of heaven.
Check out a little bit of the fun:
We aren’t the only ones that teach at COOK though! They have amazing classes and some sell out quick. Their January schedule just got released so check out more classes from COOK here.
We forgot to post the event on our blog, but the 2nd Annual Sugar High Showdown with Penn Gastronomy went down last weekend before the Thanksgiving break. This time all three of us were there to help out with the judging. It’s a hard job, but someone has to taste all the desserts and figure out how they taste! It was a great event and we had a great time. Everyone did a great job again this year. We can already tell that it’s going to get harder and harder each year to choose the winners. This year it went to: Judge’s Choice: Indian Spiced Sticky Toffee Pudding, Kimberly Schreiber Audience Favorite: Chai Tres Leches Cake with Almond Brittle; Crystal Lu For those that missed the event, check out the food porn here!
yes, its fall. kinda. (snow and then 70 degrees……..) but we still felt it was time to bring back our beloved fall-y dessert (starting thursday 11/10)
Pumpkin Custard with Candied Pecan and Oats with Torched Marshmallow (YUM!)
but a special announcement with this one is that we have partnered with Givology @ Penn to do a little awareness project. here’s how to get involved:
Remember, snap a picture of our Pumpkin Custard with your brand new iPhone 4S and throw #givingissweet on a tweet to @sugarphilly & @givology for a chance to win! (facebook too!)
Got it? GOOD!
support our friends at Givology through this link: www.givology.org/
University City has a great number of awesome food trucks. In fact, one of them was the center of my life for two years, dishing my lunch and dinner to me almost every day. Sometimes though you just don’t know about all the trucks that are out there. Thankfully, UWISHUNU, with the help of Penn Appetit, have put together a nice little guide for the trucks to look out for. Guess what? Sugar Philly is one of the top picks! We’ve put a link in our press section, but check the article out here.
I know some of you went to the Piazza for when we were competing in the Vendy’s here in Philly. It was a great time and we had a blast! Did you?
Well we are going to the Vendy’s again!!! But this time we aren’t competing but just spectating. It’s September and the New York City Vendy’s has finally “rolled” in. It’s this weekend on Governor’s Island! All three of us will be attending to see what the Big Apple trucks can cook up and see some of our other food truck friends. Of course, if anyone wants to join us, definitely feel free to! We’d love to meet up and try some food and desserts with you! We’ll be the Philly team and represent our city of brotherly love! See you there!
http://streetvendor.org/vendys/
Did you guys get to see our episode? Did any of you come out to the viewing party? We had a great time and as Rene of Rim Cafe would say, “WE MADE IT HAPPEN!” It was a great celebration for our Food Network (USA) premier on the Sugar High show! The people of Brown Betty and Rim Cafe all came together to have some fun and obviously give you all a taste of the high life. We were handing out our beloved French maracons. Brown Betty was dishing out its amazing rice pudding. And the great host Rim Cafe made amazing hot chocolate to order. If you weren’t able to join in on the festivities, here’s a little sneak peak to a very sweet Sugar Philly weekend.
Sugar Philly Believes: Heaven rains down sweetness and we want to make that as accessible to you as possible. So on the mean streets of Philly we look to bring you a little taste of heaven that will be sure to make you smile. And hey, if our treats honestly make you stick your tongue out and say, “blech!!!” (note it must be three exclamation marks), bring back the dessert and we’ll give you another treat or your money back. We don’t want any unhappy tummies out there! So come, taste, and smile =)