Food truck: Charm City Eats Brings Authentic Maryland Flavor to Tampa

You know what that means? It is time to eat. Food trucking again here at Fox 13. We have a returning guest because it was so good we had to have him back. Charm City Eats from the Charm City, Baltimore. What do we do in Baltimore? We do... Football and crab cakes, right? That's what they tell us, yeah. Although, what's with the Ravens? I mean, boy, they've fallen off a hill. They stink. Lamar. They mean Lamar's herd. It turns out in the NFL, you need a quarterback to be good. Brian and Amy Makarski, delicious food. You guys were here not too long ago, it feels like, but you've got some new things for us to see and do. Tell us about them. Yes, absolutely. So we have some of the regular favorites that we brought you today. We have obviously the crab cake, which is our signature item. We also do the crab cakes. It's smothered in crab dip as well, which is very popular. Everyone loves that one. You can really put crab dip on anything. We put crab dip on chicken, you put it on fries, and you can eat it with pita chips. The crab dip is very, very popular, so we also do that on top of our Maryland fried chicken. Did you bring that hot chicken that burned me so badly last time? I didn't make you the hot chicken this time, but I do have the chicken. We have a couple of different lighter options for you today. I want Chris to try that one in the middle right now. What in the world is that? Linda, what are you doing to me? What is that? I didn't wear a bib. What is the stacked thing? This thing is big, yes. It's a very big sandwich, and it's all crab meat. You got the crab cake. Smothered in crab dip, lettuce, tomato, brioche, bun. So it's a big, big sandwich. It's delicious and amazing. I was just kidding. I'm not going to make you try that. Because it's double the crab. Look, I don't shy away from a challenge. You want me to try it, Linda? I'll try it. I'll try the double down. Most people get a good press on it. Okay, get a good, yeah. All right. How does he eat it? Tell us. Play by play. Most of the customers will press it down a bit. I don't like ruining my artwork, so I let you do it, and then from there, then it's a two-hander, big bite, and don't get any on your tie. This is like a sporting event. It is. Here, let me help you. Let me help you, Chris. You got it. Look how much crab is in there. I got it for you. So much crab. When he takes his jacket off, he's serious. That is serious. You know I don't like tomato, though, but I'm going to eat it in. Yes, I know. All right. There you go. Yeah, that's a mess. It's good for a first timer, good for a first timer, see, and it finishes as a knife and fork meal. I don't see anybody finish it as a sandwich. That crab is really good. Thank you. It's really good. It is really good. I agree. And what now with the jalapenos over there? What exactly is that? That's our crabby fries. That's just fries, smothered in crab dip, and then the hot peppers, tricolor peppers and a drizzle of our SOB sauce. S-O-B. I see. Son of a bitch. All right. A lot of our acronyms people have adopted to other things. It really was a Sagamore Old Bay Barbecue Sauce. Okay, we can say that. Yeah. Mmm. Sagamore Whiskey out of Baltimore. I didn't know that. I like the barbecue sauce. Thank you. You make it with the whiskey. Everything we make is in-house. Oh, nice. All the sauces. Every sauce, yep. Now, you were telling me it's festival season, right? It is. Festival's everywhere. So where can we find it? you at what festivals? Yes so we are going to be at Shopapalooza which is a great event. 350 vendors out there. It's November 28th and 29th Van Nuys Park. Super event. We do that one every year. They have so much stuff. Beautiful. Definitely recommend checking out Shopapalooza for sure. And then we have a couple other events coming up as well. Sorry, I took the mic away from you to eat. That's so selfish of me to do. It's also a great way to support local during that Black Friday holiday season. shopping. That's really good. Linda's our resident mac and cheese. Oh my gosh. I've got the hiccups. Three different kind of cheeses and I make a bechamel with it before we add the crab in and bake it. A bechamel, that's like a, what is that, a reduction of something? It's kind of just melting the cheese down more than anything. That's nice. Very, you guys are like high-end crab people. Yes, we are. Don't mess around. That crab is, where do you source your crab? So, it depends on the time of year. So, sometimes Louisiana, sometimes obviously Maryland. So, it depends on when it's in season. Social media, we need to know where people can find you. Yeah, we use nothing but Fresh Crab. So, Facebook and Instagram. Instagram is Charm City Eats Food Truck. Facebook, Charm City Eats. Our website is charmcityeats.com. That has all of our locations. We do catering. We do special events. We love corporate catering. We do, as I said, a ton of festivals. So, pretty much everything. They don't mess around. This food is seriously good. We're charmed by it. Brian, Kim, thank you very much. Come back soon.