Chef Jason Evans has begun his first full season of serving lunch from his Hangry Hogg barbecue truck, parked near Dorset Street in South Burlington’s University Mall lot across from JCPenney. Evans trialed the location in December after moving from Rutland to Fairfax for his wife’s job. He had previously served smoked meats in a style he described as “a cross between Texas and Kansas City” around Rutland since 2021.
Hangry Hogg’s menu features sandwiches of chopped brisket, pulled pork and pickle-marinated fried chicken. Evans prepares his meat simply, with just celery salt and black pepper, before smoking it over pecan wood.
From-scratch sides include a creamy buttermilk slaw, generously seasoned with celery seed and pepper; and rich beans spangled with barbecue meat ends in Evans’ sweet, tangy house barbecue sauce. He makes a fresh-ground, Oklahoma-style brisket smash burger loaded with thinly sliced griddled onions. Specials include barbecue poutine and fried ribs with an Alabama white sauce.
Evans, 55, grew up in Utica, N.Y., but he went to culinary school at Johnson & Wales University’s campus in Charleston, S.C., where, he said, barbecue “kinda grasped me in my soul.” After graduating, Evans came back to the Northeast to work in high-end dining, including more than six years as executive chef at the Mountain Top Resort in Chittenden.
During a break from kitchens to work in food-service sales, he kept making barbecue as a hobby. “I always wanted to do a food truck,” said the chef, who mans the rig with Josh Golub.
Hangry Hogg currently serves Wednesday through Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., but hours are dependent on weather, customer demand and the truck’s event schedule. Evans posts weekly updates on Facebook — or, for real-time ones, text “join” to 802-505-9455. ➆
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