Capital City Bakery food cart before it was towed to Longhorn Food Court. Photo from Cap City's Facebook page

May 18 is the long-awaited grand opening of Capital City Bakery. Austin has been sampling Cap City’s baked goods at bake sales, potlucks, and, recently, at the new Counter Culture for years. And I know I’m not the only one excited to have better access to Kristen’s decadent baked goods.

The Cap City trailer is located in the Longhorn Food Court near UT’s campus at Rio Grande and MLK, the same food court where the Conscious Cravings trailer has been serving chimichurri seitan wraps (and, OK, other things) for a few years now. And…drumroll…

Black Forest Cake from Capital City Bakery. Photo from Cap City website

…Moses Falafel, a kosher falafel cart will be relocating the next week from the Dell Jewish Community Center parking lot to the Longhorn Food Court. Concurrent with the move, Moses Falafel is expanding their menu. It looks like you can expect hummus and some other as-yet-unnamed goodies. I’m not sure they’re going into the location where the Asian food cart currently is, or if they’re squeezing into another spot. But either way, that makes three veg* carts all in the same lot.

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And speaking of kosher food carts, be sure to check out Lucy’s European Cuisine located in the parking lot of Texas Hillel (2101 San Antonio) just around the corner from the Longhorn Food Court. The cart is kosher fleishig (meat), which means that all the food is guaranteed to be dairy-free. The cart is operated by the former owners of Drakula, a neat little Romanian restaurant formerly in north central Austin.

Veggie Cabbage Roll from Lucy's European Cuisine

The menu (pdf) is mostly European, with falafel and fries thrown in because of demand. Skip the felafel (I haven’t tried it, but it’s a ubiquitous vegan option in Austin) and try the veggie stuffed cabbage or veggie stew, both vegan. This kind of Eastern European food isn’t pretty, but it’s tasty and pretty hard to find in vegan Texas.

Note that the eggplant contains eggs. I didn’t remember to ask, but I think there’s a strong chance the apple strudel is accidentally vegan since it’s not a dish that usually contains eggs, and it’s already guaranteed to be dairy-free.

*Everything is vegan at Moses Falafel except the baklava which contains honey. Don’t make me call them beegan. Please!