Mister Dips

Now dominating the skyline by the Williamsburg waterfront is the William Vale hotel. Way up in the sky, with the best new view of the Manhattan skyline, is Westlight bar on the 22nd floor. But rooftop bars are not new in New York; what is new is a food truck that’s set in the hotel’s 15,000-square-foot public park, located up a tall flight of stairs from the street.

Mister Dips is set in a 1974 chrome Airstream trailer that chef Andrew Carmellini and his partners bought on EBay. There’s a short menu of griddled burgers, both single and double patties, including an occasionally changing Special Dip. Currently, it’s topped with Hatch chiles (a favorite of chef Carmellini’s), Jack cheese, and sriracha sauce.

“Ground floor real estate is no joke,” said Carmellini, as he climbed up to Mister Dips. “We couldn’t have put a public park on street level; that space is for retail.”

The chef does acknowledge one drawback to having a food truck on an upper level of the hotel: To be installed, it had to be hoisted up to the park by crane.

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