Review: CapMac (Macaroni and Cheese)

Food Truck Name: CapMac
twitter handle: @CapMacDC
website: http://www.capmacdc.com/

cost: (cash only)
menu items:
White Gazpacho - $3
(cold blend of blanched almonds, green grapes, cucumbers, olive oil, bread and garlic, topped with chunks of spiced honey dew melon)

Classic CapMac'n Cheese - $6
(cheddar, pimento, cheez-it crumble)
Weiner Mac - $9
(Classic CapMac'n Cheese topped w/ locally made all beef brat and caramelized onions)
Goat Cheese Mac - $8
(spicy sweet corn relish, bacon panko)
Goat Cheese Mac topped w/ sweet and smoky chicken - $10
Pesto Mac - $7
(rigatoni topped w/ spinach and basil pesto tossed with roasted zucchini, crispy fingerling potatoes and green beans; served cold)
Chilled Mac - $8
(greek yogurt and lemon sauce w/ cucumber, pickled onion, olive and spicy grilled chicken; served cold)

wait time: a few minutes to order (depends on the line); hot dishes take around 5 minutes to prepare, cold dishes are ready-made (so you get them right after you pay)

When you first get your order, one of the first things that you might think is that the container is a little "small", but as the familiar adage goes, "looks can be deceiving".  I quickly found this to be true once I opened my piping hot Goat Cheese Mac (see above picture) to reveal a massive mound of bacon panko crumble and corn relish on top of the chicken and pasta.  After a few misguided attempts at eating through the layers, I discovered that by mixing it and adding a little salt to taste.  The whole dish come together nicely.  The creamy goat cheese leaves a nice velvet finish that perfectly compliments the subtle burn in the back of the mouth that comes from the jalapenos in the relish, the sweet paprika on the chicken and the black pepper in the pasta.
I did not find the dish a complete success.  The corn, which I imagine was used to add texture to the dish, tasted more canned than fresh.  This can be easily remedied, but the more troubling problem comes back to its sheer richness of it all, which simply induces a major food coma if the whole portion is consumed.  Though the chicken did its best to cut through it, I wonder if some green vegetable like the previously available and quite inspiring broccoli pesto would have succeed where the corn relish had failed.  I suggest eating only half of it (or two-thirds at most since it still is very delicious), unless you have the luxury of taking an afternoon nap at work.

"Chilled Mac"

Final Verdict: CapMac has managed to take a "side dish" and glorify it into something better and worth a try.  Don't be discouraged by either the prices (the add-ons are both delicious and necessary) or the apparent portions (bigger than you think), but simply practice moderation because sometimes there can be "too much of a good thing".