Dandelion Kitchen

Established in 2010. Dandelion Kitchen is a Minneapolis-based gourmet food truck & catering company that focuses on creating healthy, hand-crafted dishes that highlight the bounty of the midwest. Our ingredients are carefully sourced, and we use local & organic ingredients from small family farms whenever possible. Located in downtown Minneapolis (... weekdays) and farmers markets (weekends) Dandelion Kitchen serves up a well-crafted menu of sandwiches, soups, salads, and seasonal specialties, all made from scratch. Natalie Coleman and Alexander Brand met at Wesleyan University, where they were studying philosophy and political science, and quickly bonded over their shared love of food and passion for travel. Soon after graduation, the pair took off on a year-long bicycle expedition that would take them overland from Prague to Bangkok. Pedaling for thousands of miles through Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, they focussed on collecting recipes, forming their culinary encyclopedia, and gathering inspiration from restauranteurs and home-cooks around the world. Above all they fell in love with the concept of street food: from the delicate sweets of Istanbul to the steaming noodle stands in China. Fresh, local, and bustling, street food vendors were consistently the best food around. The more they saw, the more they became committed to the idea of bringing fast, healthy, gourmet food to the streets back home. Upon their return and eager to generate a lively food truck scene in Minneapolis, the couplRead More