Tacomory

Highway 6 runs out of road at Tobermory, where the pavement ends at the ferry docks and the trailheads for Flowerpot Island. Tacomory works that last stretch — a taco truck that catches travellers heading out to the boats in the morning and feeds them again when they come back hungry. The order suits the town: handheld, quick, easy to read off a board, built for people moving through rather than settling in for a long dinner. Tobermory has had its taco truck since 2017, parked on the south gateway into town, and the menu has stayed short and disciplined enough to keep the window moving on a busy summer afternoon.

The board is built for fast decisions: tacos, bowls and burritos, nachos, a short kids list, and sides. Tacos come on six-inch flour tortillas — shredded chicken with pico and tacomory sauce, pork carnitas with pineapple salsa, an Aloha taco that folds shredded chicken into pineapple salsa and sour cream. The curried chickpea taco swaps the meat for chickpeas, red cabbage slaw, and a vegan cilantro lime sauce. The same fillings carry into the bowls and burritos — chicken, carnitas, or vegan chickpea — for anyone who wants a fork instead of a tortilla. Nachos take the flavours up to table size: the Tacomory Nachos layer chicken, queso cheese sauce, pico, green onions, and sour cream over chips, while the Nacho Joke build piles on salsa rojo and guacamole. Even the sides hold the theme, with chips run through four salsas or a double order of guacamole. The sauces do the connecting work, so a regular can follow a favourite from taco to bowl to nacho.

What stands out is how seriously a roadside window takes the plant-based order. Curried chickpea is not a lone vegan concession stuck at the bottom of the menu; it runs the full length of it — a taco, a bowl, and a plate of nachos, built with the same slaw and cilantro lime sauce each time. A vegan traveller gets a real path through the board instead of a single grudging default, and the gluten-free question is one the truck is used to fielding. The kids list reads the same way, with a chicken-and-cheese taco, a quesadilla, or a nacho each arriving with a juice box. None of it is accidental. This is a window that expects families and carloads coming off the highway together, and cooks for them on purpose.

The operation is owner-run, and it has lasted: regional accounts put Tacomory among the longest-standing food trucks on the Northern Bruce Peninsula, a real distinction in a town that empties out every winter and fills again the moment the boats start running. The menu is tight by design and turned over fast. There is no dining room and no delivery — you order at the window or online for pickup and take it with you, down to the docks or back to a campsite in Bruce Peninsula National Park. A truck can only cook so much at once, and Tacomory spends that capacity on a handful of things it can send out quickly.

Tobermory lives and dies on boat schedules and trail traffic, and a place on Highway 6 has to be useful to people who have somewhere else to be. Tacomory reads that correctly. The vegan build threads through every section, the kids' order comes with a juice box, the bowls cover the fork crowd, and the nachos are sized for a table that just came off the water. Start with the curried chickpea taco, the order that tastes most like this particular truck — then carry the bag down to the docks, because most of what leaves this window gets eaten with the boats in view.