Hellertown eatery temporarily closed until fall as owner revamps business model, including new food truck

A Hellertown eatery is briefly shut as it updates its small business design.

CHEFstreet Kitchen, a acquire-out shop offering “next amount consolation road food” at 56 W. H2o St., briefly shuttered about a thirty day period ago as it “revamps functions and products and services,” like planning for a new meals truck, proprietor and chef Joe Stout explained.

CHEFstreet Cellular Kitchen area, a meals truck that will visit breweries, wineries, festivals and other destinations, is expected to debut in September, Stout mentioned.

The acquire-out eatery will then reopen in the drop with a confined menu that includes a rotating collection of nearly 60 styles of scratch-made empanadas, together with savory options these kinds of as beef and cheese, mac and cheese and lime chorizo and sweet creations such as s’mores, brownie batter and blueberry product cheese.

Meal prep possibilities, which include CHEFbowls that includes an assortment of proteins, greens and starches, will be accessible for grab-and-go and shipping.

“Once the shop is back again open, it is going to be strictly empanadas, rice and beans,” Stout stated. “I’ll have some rotating specials, but for the most section, I’ll be focusing on that. Meal prep will arrive again as a seize-and-go solution. So, I’ll have absolutely cooked, organized CHEFbowls that’ll be accessible at the shop.”

CHEFstreet Mobile Kitchen will serve a condensed menu of the business’ most preferred items, Stout said, which include a rotating choice of empanadas, loaded street nachos, “CHEFtender bowls” (naked or sauce-coated chicken tenders over mac and cheese or potato wedges) and “Phat Subz” (huge sandwiches that Stout dubs “heart attacks on a roll”).

The mobile operation will be readily available for personal and group functions.

“When the food truck opens in September, I’m preparing to deliver it in all places — breweries, wineries, road situations, fundraising occasions, weddings, company lunches and so forth,” Stout stated.

Stout, who has been cooking and baking for 25 a long time, final summertime opened CHEFstreet Kitchen area on Hellertown’s Water Street following working out of a business kitchen at Hellertown’s Dewey Hearth Co. for about 6 months.

The Phillipsburg resident also operates ChefMeals, a catering and meal prep company with a aim on superior diet, out of the same H2o Sreet space.

He credits family associates — his mother, a longtime baker his grandfather, a chef of 37 yrs and his grandmother, a nutritionist and soul food caterer who stopped cooking at the age of 86 — for his enthusiasm for planning a vast assortment of meals.

Right before opening his most recent venture, Stout also had an assortment of other culinary gigs around the past ten years, which include sorority household chef at Lehigh University, foods products and services coordinator at the Princeton-Blairstown Heart in New Jersey and executive chef at Bowlmor entertainment facility (now acknowledged as Bowlero) in North Brunswick, N.J.

He also mentored a lot more than 350 people during his occupation and operated a now-shut downtown Easton sandwich store, Phat Joe’s Grill and Catering, in 2011 with his brother.

“Working at other places, I was building good money, but I wasn’t usually joyful mainly because I felt like I was not using my encounter to the ideal of my skill,” Stout instructed The Morning Contact final 12 months. “So, I decided to acquire a possibility and do a little something on my very own.”

Chefmeals also delivers little ones cooking functions, grownup cooking socials and chef consulting services for get started-ups and established foodstuff enterprises.

To keep up-to-date on CHEFstreet Kitchen’s improvements, observe the business’ social media pages, fb.com/happychefmealsLLC and instagram.com/_chefmeals.