About the WAGON 🚚💨
We’re cooking with gas.
Tandi Wilson 👩
Owner
Originally from Alexandria, VA, Tandi Wilson relocated to Greenville, NC, in 2001 to attend East Carolina University. While in the School of Communication at ECU, she studied abroad for a semester, attending the University of Salzburg in Salzburg, Austria, in 2003. In 2005, Wilson graduated with a BA in Communication, with a concentration in Public Relations, and a minor in Multidisciplinary Studies, with a concentration in Business, German, and Political Science. Wilson is still in Greenville, almost 15 years after earning her degree, investing in the community she has grown to love.
In 2009, Wilson became both a homeowner and small business owner in Greenville, NC – both in close proximity to the Uptown District. Christy’s Euro Pub, Wilson’s business since 2009, successfully and proudly serves quality scratch food to the Historic College View neighborhood and beyond. In 2015, along with now husband Jacob Wilson and business partners Kristi Southern and Brad Hufford, T. Wilson opened Dickinson Avenue Public House (DAP House). In 2016 she opened her third business, Jarvis Street Bottle Shop, with longtime friend and General Manager of Christy’s Taylor Johnson.
With their success at both Christy’s and DAP House, and the want to reach a larger customer base in Grenville and surrounding cities in North Carolina, the Wilson’s purchased their first food truck. Naming it “The Burp Wagon,” the Wilson’s hope to take their Pub eats from Christy’s and combine them with their southern food twists from DAP House putting out new and exciting food on the truck. Her ECU education combined with her experience in the restaurant/craft beer industry has certainly paid off. In 2018 Tandi and Jacob welcomed their first child, their son Marion Wilson, to their family. Now a toddler, he’s learning ropes helping at home in the kitchen making cookies, cakes, and pies!
Jacob Wilson 🧔
Owner and Chef
Raised in Texas, surrounded by local and fresh family cooking, Jacob Wilson believes quality food does not have to be accompanied by high costs and a stodgy environment. After leaving Texas and serving in the military, Wilson traveled extensively across the U.S., facilitating cable start-ups in the voice-over digital phone boom.
His work travels brought him to Eastern North Carolina, and in 2005, he found himself working in Greenville, frequenting Christy’s Euro Pub in his down-time. Even though his work moved him to the coast of NC, Wilson felt an attachment to Greenville.
In 2009, Wilson made a heartfelt career move and decided to follow his lifetime pull toward creating scratch family food; Partnering with now wife Tandi Wilson they made a home and bought Christy’s Euro Pub. A self-taught chef, born into a family of butchers, Wilson was able to practice his passion for feeding groups of friends and family, serving the Greenville community. Wilson’s family culinary history, his extensive travels, and his appreciation for the craft food movement have resulted in an ongoing creation of crowd-pleasing dishes, with Cajun, French, Southern, Spanish, and Asian influence.
In 2015 J. Wilson got to take his culinary experience to the next level becoming the co-owner and chef of Dickinson Avenue Public House. Honing in his skills for small plates and his love for Mexican and Tex-Mex, the idea for Sidebar emerged. Sidebar will be a new lunch, dinner and brunch destination in the Uptown District. Located directly next to their sister restaurant DAP House, Sidebar will feature a no rules fusion faire with roots in Tex-Mex. With the addition of Sidebar and The Burp Wagon, Jacob’s love for food and serving the community will certainly reach new levels.
