Food Network keeps on truckin' to Ontario

A truck stop's grub makes the Food Network? Yep. Alton Brown taped a brief segment at Ontario's Fork in the Road restaurant for his road-food show "Feasting on Asphalt," which airs at 9 p.m. Saturday.

Brown, according to the show's Web site, winds up his cross-country motorcycle tour with seven Southern California stops, including the Travel America West truckers' haven off Milliken Avenue.

An item in our Food section Wednesday about the show said Fork in the Road's buffet rotates some 300 items. Among the non-beefy fare is Asian honey pork, cheese florentine rice and fresh homemade soups.

I'd never thought to eat at Ontario's truck stop. So on Thursday I dropped in for lunch, admittedly ashamed that an outsider on cable TV beat me to the punch. Or at least the chicken fried steak.