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The Story Behind
Spud House
Toronto
Spud House started with a single truck, a Kensington Market pitch, and a very strong opinion about how a baked potato should be made. Today, we bring fully loaded comfort food to events, offices, and food lovers across Toronto.
Real Ingredients. Bold Flavour.
Toronto Made.
The Beginning
Where It All Started
SpudHouse launched in 2020. The idea had been sitting in a notebook for two years before that: a food truck built entirely around the loaded potato. Not potatoes as a side dish. Not as a menu afterthought. As the whole point.
The first market day was a Saturday in Kensington Market. The truck had four builds on the menu, a small chalkboard sign, and no idea whether Toronto would queue for a baked potato. It turned out that Toronto would — enthusiastically — and has not stopped since.
The first lesson from that day was immediate: the Classic Loaded Spud sold out before noon, and the Garden Spud sold out last. Both were ready again the following Saturday. By the third week, a queue formed before the truck opened. That felt like enough of a sign to keep going.
2019
The Idea
Concept developed in a notebook after years of working in Toronto restaurant kitchens. One question kept coming up: why has nobody made a serious food truck built entirely around the potato?
2020
First Market Day
SpudHouse opens for the first time at Kensington Market, Toronto. Four builds. One truck. Sold out by 1 pm. The Classic Loaded and the Garden Spud were both reordered by 15 different people before noon.
2021
Growing the Route
Added Stackt Market and Liberty Village to the weekly circuit. First corporate catering booking. First time the tornado fries appeared on the menu after a customer suggestion at the truck window.
2022
The Wrap Menu
Loaded wraps were added after six months of requests at the Bay Street lunch stop. First TikTok post reaches 40,000 views. @Spudhousetoronto Instagram crosses 3,000 followers.
2023
Catering at Scale
SpudHouse caters its first 400-person event at a Toronto waterfront venue. First wedding catering booking. The Spicy Maple Chicken Spud was voted onto the permanent menu by Instagram followers.
2024
Record Year
650 spuds served at a single event. Toronto food press coverage. @Spudhousetoronto reaches 8,000 followers. The tornado fries TikTok series collectively passes 2 million views.
Now
What's Next
A second truck is in planning. A permanent seasonal menu calendar launches in 2025. And the original notebook is still on the kitchen counter.
The Philosophy
Why the Loaded Spud?
The potato is the most democratic food. It is cheap, filling, familiar, and genuinely loved by almost everyone. It is also deeply underestimated. Most people have had a bad baked potato at some point: dense and starchy inside, rubbery skin, a pat of butter and nothing else. That version of the potato is not what SpudHouse is about.
A properly baked russet potato, done low and slow in a real oven until the skin crackles and the inside goes genuinely fluffy, is one of the best things you can eat. Load it with the right combination of textures and temperatures, and it is genuinely extraordinary. That is the SpudHouse philosophy. Not complicated and just done properly.
Comfort food is also community food. It is the thing you eat when you want to feel good, when you are at a market with your family on a Saturday, or when you are at a corporate event and someone has finally ordered something interesting. SpudHouse exists at that intersection. Good food that makes people happy and gives them something to talk about.
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The Potato First
Every decision starts with the potato. Variety, source, prep method, bake time. Everything else builds on that foundation.
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Made From Scratch
All sauces and all toppings are prepped fresh each morning. No packet sauces. No shortcuts that the customer would not want to know about.
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Community Food
SpudHouse belongs to the neighbourhoods and markets it serves. The menu has been shaped by feedback from Toronto since day one.
House favourite since day one
The Classic Loaded Spud
The People
The SpudHouse Team
SpudHouse is a small operation by design. Every person on the team has a specific role, and every role matters on a service day. The crew that ran the first Kensington Market day is still the crew running the truck today. That continuity is intentional, and it is part of why the food is consistent.
Co-Founder & Head Chef
Head Chef
Trained in Toronto restaurant kitchens before moving to street food. Responsible for every sauce recipe, the bake process, and the menu development. The one who still insists on tasting every batch of queso before service.
Co-Founder & Operations
Operations Lead
Handles bookings, catering logistics, route planning, and everything that needs to happen before the truck window opens. If the truck is somewhere on time and fully stocked, that is entirely down to her.
Social Media & Community
Social & Community
Posts the daily location every morning. Films the cheese pulls. Has never met a tornado fry she didn’t like. The person behind the TikTok content that has collectively passed 2 million views.
A Toronto crowd favourite
Spicy Tornado Potato
Toronto Roots
Our Place in Toronto's Food Scene
Toronto has one of the most competitive street food scenes in North America. The city has extraordinary food from every cuisine and culture imaginable. SpudHouse operates in that environment not by competing with it but by finding the thing that nobody else was doing well: the proper loaded potato, made with the same care and ingredient quality as a sit-down restaurant, served from a truck window for the price of a fast food lunch.
The markets and neighbourhoods that shaped SpudHouse are specific and meaningful. Kensington Market was the first home because it has always been the place in Toronto where independent food businesses get a fair hearing from an audience that genuinely cares about quality. Stackt Market brought the King West and Liberty Village lunch crowd. Evergreen Brick Works connected SpudHouse to the Saturday market community that returns every week like clockwork.
Looking Ahead
What's Next for SpudHouse?
A second truck is planned for 2025. The current truck runs 5 to 6 days a week, and demand has outgrown its capacity over the past two years. The second truck will expand the route more consistently into East Toronto, Scarborough, and Etobicoke — areas where SpudHouse pop-ups have always drawn strong crowds but cannot be reached regularly with a single vehicle.
The seasonal menu calendar is being formalized. Right now, seasonal builds appear when they are ready and sell out when they do. The 2025 plan is a published quarterly menu with four seasonal specials announced in advance so regulars can plan around them. The winter Butter Chicken Spud and the summer Elote both sold out within 90 minutes of being announced. That warrants a proper launch process.
The original notebook is still on the kitchen counter. 23 build ideas in it have not been made into a truck menu yet. Twelve of them are ready. Follow spudhouse.ca to find out which ones make it to the top first. The community votes on every new addition, which is how it has always worked and how it will continue to.
“The original notebook is still on the kitchen counter.”
2025 Plan
Second Truck
Expanding into East Toronto, Scarborough, and Etobicoke. Areas where pop-ups have always drawn strong crowds but can’t be reached regularly with one truck.
2025 Launch
Seasonal Menu Calendar
A published quarterly menu with four seasonal specials announced in advance. The Butter Chicken Spud and Elote both sold out within 90 minutes of being announced.
Always
Community Votes
12 notebook builds are ready. The community votes on every new addition — that is how it has always worked and how it will continue to.
Come and Find Us
The truck is out there. The spuds are loaded.
See what we cook up on the full menu, bring the SpudHouse experience to your event, or see our journey in photos across five years on Toronto’s streets.
Want to know more before reaching out? Head back to the SpudHouse homepage, or visit spudhouse.ca for daily location updates and everything happening with the truck.
