![]() ![]() Not so – in addition to insurance and paperwork woes, they had to figure out how to include everything a regular food truck needs – including four sinks, hot and cold running water, a refrigerator, and a fire extinguisher – into the Ape’s 25 square feet of space. So we thought, this’ll be a walk in the park.” “I think we thought, coming into it, in our eyes, that it was very different, because we’re not handling any raw food,” he says. ![]() ![]() At that point, I was like ‘Why can’t they do that? Why can’t they do that in Canada? Why don’t we have that in Toronto?”Īt the time, it was just a pipe dream, but the couple decided to take the leap a year and a half ago, hunting down the Ape and going through the miles of red tape needed to get the city to approve it as a food truck. It wasn’t gourmet, but they made a solid, solid cup of coffee. “In the parking lot, there was a truck, and they just had a simple little coffee machine. “It was a cold, cold day, in the middle of nowhere,” he said. As it happens (ha), the idea for the truck came to Douglas while he was out on assignment in Nuremberg, Germany. Owner Jeff Douglas – who holds a daytime gig as the co-host of the CBC’s radio show As It Happens – and his wife, Ana Maria Diez, have wanted to make their own mark on Toronto’s cafe culture for years. The brand-new espresso bar on wheels packs everything you need for a midday jolt of caffeine into one of the minuscule Italian three-wheeled trucks – a relative rarity on this side of the pond (though they’ve recently been joined by ice cream truck Bar Ape, their counterparts in three-wheeled food service). knows good things come in small packages – shots of espresso, for example, or their tiny Piaggio Ape. ![]()
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