The Dallas-based Nammi Truck is a Vietnamese fusion food truck that’s now started making appearances here in Fort Worth on Fridays at Avoca Coffee on Magnolia Avenue in the Near Southside. What’s good for you, my fellow vegans, is that they’ve got a great assortment of vegan-friendly items, and we’ve tried them.

For each item, Nammi Truck offers a choice of meat – including, for us vegans, some nicely prepared tofu. Naturally, they serve Bành Mì – Vietnamese sandwiches. Seen above is an example – a 12″ sandwich stuffed with tofu, cucumbers, pickled daikons, carrots, jalapeños, and cilantro. There’s a garlic mayo on the sandwiches by default, which should be left off for veganizing.

The next of the three main offerings are the tacos, served with tofu, red cabbage medley, cucumbers, pickled daikons, carrots, jalapeños, and cilantro. The tacos are stuffed full and a little challenging to handle, but are quite tasty.

My personal favorite item is the Nammi bowl, a delicious thing filled to the brim with rice, tofu, grilled vegetables, cucumbers, pickled daikons, carrots, jalapeños, and cilantro. Besides being the simplest to handle, the bowl is very filling and hearty, and everything in it packs a nice flavor punch.

(In all of these, watch out for the jalapeños, as they aren’t kidding around.)

As for prices, the tacos are $3 each, the sandwiches are $6, and the bowls are $7. That’s pushing the upper level of food truck prices, but the quality and taste justify it in my mind. This is some really nicely done food, and if you can catch Nammi at Avoca, make sure and check it out. The most recent round of stops have had them at Avoca on Fridays from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM for dinner.

Fort Worth’s terribly underserved in terms of coffee shops. We have an excess of Starbucks locations, and almost zero local, independent places. All of a sudden, though, we might be turning the corner. Avoca Coffee is arriving soon in the Near Southside, and Grapevine-based Buon Giorno Coffee has moved in downtown, just off Henderson at 10th & Florence.

The new Buon Giorno is open six days a week (only closed on Sunday), with decently late hours: 6:30 AM to 10:30 PM during the week, and 7:00 AM to 11:00 PM on Saturday. It’s been a while since Fort Worth has had a local coffee place that’s open past 4:00 in the afternoon.

Naturally, Buon Giorno has plenty of coffee. We tried the Xmas Blend, which was delicious, and they offer soy milk to go in your cup. Pictured above is that mug of Xmas with soy. You can get your coffee cheap and pay $0.70 for refills, or go for the $4 bottomless cup. Buon Giorno’s coffee is roasted by themselves at their home base in Grapevine.

What earns Buon Giorno a post is that they go above and beyond simple coffee with soy milk for us vegans – they also offer three vegan treats! We didn’t get a chance to try the Spice Cake, but it looked good. We did try the other two – pictured above is the vegan Oatmeal Cookie, a heart-shaped cookie with great flavor and texture.

Finally, there’s the vegan Carob Cookie, as seen above. This thing tasted really nice – moist and chewy with wonderful flavor. It reminded us of various raw cookie recipes we’ve made.

So, not only can you welcome Buon Giorno to town for your vegan-friendly caffeine needs, you can also snack on some delicious vegan treats while you do so. Props to Buon Giorno for their veg-friendliness!