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For Mark Coates, goodbye Fergie's, hello Smoke Truck
After six months overhauling the kitchen at Fergie's, barbecue maestro Mark Coates of the sorely missed Bebe's is making good on a promise to enter the food truck race.
For Mark Coates, goodbye Fergie’s, hello Smoke Truck
After six months overhauling the kitchen at Fergie's (1214 Sansom St.), barbecue maestro Mark Coates of the sorely missed Bebe's is making good on a promise to enter the food truck race. "I stepped to the side because I had some other stuff I wanted to work on," Coates says of Fergie’s, which will still be serving the smokehouse staples that first won this Louisiana transplant local acclaim. "And I've been wanting to do a food truck forever." That desire has been chronicled here on Meal Ticket, and now it's confirmed that a mobile operation is indeed on the way.
The name is the Smoke Truck, a collaboration between Coates and Carmen Cappello, chef/owner of the Wishing Well (767 S. Ninth St.). Lunch breaks at Bebe's were a regular thing back when Cappello and his crew were preparing to open the Well, during which the chef (who cooked in Atlanta for 12 years) and Coates bonded over a love of Southern cooking. They’ll operate the Smoke Truck together, serving Bebe’s favorites like pulled pork and sweet tea, as well as the smoked and cured meats they collab on for Cappello's cottage business, North/South Meatery & Canning. (Can’t wait to see the spicy "lambdouille" in a hot dog bun.) "Carmen and I share similar passions," says Coates. "We just wanna be out there, feeding people and having fun."
Paperwork is being filed with the city, and the old Tastykake van Coates bought last year is being retrofitted with two smokers, deep-fryer, griddle and steam table. He says four to six weeks, "hopefully."
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