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The Wheels on the Blue Sparrow Food Bus Go Round and Round
Founded in 2016, Blue Sparrow is a food truck fleet that serves global street food with local ingredients. From baking their own bread to pickling and fermenting their own vegetables, everything that Blue Sparrow serves is made from scratch. The menu ranges from Asian fusion items, like their Korean BBQ Burrito and Ramen Burger, to street food dishes, such as banh mi and Cuban sandwiches…
Blue Sparrow food truck flocks to a new home
Something big is coming to the Pittsburgh food truck scene — a Greyhound bus, to be exact. Blue Sparrow — a food truck that sells global foods ranging from a ramen burger to traditional gyros — is expanding from its current truck to a 1956 GM PD-4104, a bus known as a “Highway Traveler” while it was being produced…
Why These Local Food Trucks Are Succeeding By Staying Parked
August 14, 2023 - Kristy Graver, Photos by Laura Petrilla
Last year, Blue Sparrow Chef Luke Cypher went into nesting mode. He was not only expecting the arrival of a new baby (she’s doing well and growing fast!), he was gearing up to be the semi-permanent food purveyor for Sharpsburg’s Dancing Gnome. Each Wednesday through Saturday, Cypher and his team sell pizzas in a vintage Greyhound bus stationed behind the brewery at 1025 Main St. (CLICK IMAGE TO READ MORE)
Chef Luke Cypher serves from a Greyhound to enjoy both the front- and back-end restaurant experiences
August 21, 2019 - By Maggie Weaver
Luke Cypher didn't want to own a restaurant. After a decade of cooking back-of-house, the chef was tired of hiding behind kitchen walls. He wanted to see his customers and interact with the people eating his food… (CLICK IMAGE TO READ MORE)
December 12, 2018 - by Kristy Locklin
Blue Sparrow has landed (semi-permanently) at Eleventh Hour Brewing in Lawrenceville. Starting April 3, the mobile eatery’s vintage Greyhound bus will be parked outside the Charlotte Street brewery on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 5 to 10 p.m. and on Sundays from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Eleventh Hour will welcome a rotating fleet of food trucks on Saturdays and the mass transit restaurant will continue to make the rounds at area businesses and festivals… (CLICK IMAGE TO READ MORE)