Back in October, we told you about Eat St. asking for video submissions from vendors to be on their program.  The response has been excellent, and now it’s time for you to vote for your favorites.

Click through to find out which vendors submitted videos and how to vote for them.  There are a few local vendors, so make sure to support our hometown favorites.

T H E  P R I Z E

What will your support mean for a lucky, hard working street food vendor? The winning video may appear on TV and/or on the Eat St. website and will be given to the winner to use and distribute as they please (think: free professional video for advertising purposes!).  The five videos with the highest number of votes from fans will win the Fan Favorite award and will be eligible to win the grand prize – an Eat St. segment starring their cart!

V O T I N G

Cast your votes from Jan. 5 to Jan. 31, 2012 for the vendor you would most like to see on the television show. You can vote once per day! Just be sure to register for an account on the contest website in order to cast your vote (this ensures your privacy and eliminates spam). Voting opened yesterday, January 5th. In the meantime, you can check out the awesome videos submitted and register to vote at http://memelabs.com/eat-st/

T H E  T R U C K S

Be sure to give your favorite food truck a shout out once you vote! The contest hashtag on Twitter is: #eatstvotes

There are 4 New York area vendors, and lots of others too.

New York area vendors

The Cinnamon Snail – Hoboken, NJ – @veganlunchtruck  (Click here for the NYSF First Look at The Cinnamon Snail. View their video submission here.)

El Diablo Tacos – Brooklyn, NY – @eldiablotacos (Click here for our review of their sister El Diablo Tacos stand in Austin during SXSW last year. View their video submission here.)

Mamma Marci’s – Hoboken, New Jersey – @mammamarci (Click here for our review of Mama Marci’s from the All About Downtown Festival in Jersey City last Sept. View their video submission here.)

Chef Johnson’s Johnson – Westchester, NY – @johnsontruck (We haven’t tried Chef Johnson’s Johnson, but love the name. View their video submission here.)

Non-New York area vendors

Alfresco Mobilista – South Carolina – @AlfMob

Aphrodisiac Ice Cream – Miami, FL – @aphorodisiacice

Blues City Biscuits  - Portland, OR – @BCBiscuits

Bill’s Hotdogs – San Jose, CA – Bill’s Hotdogs Facebook

Bernie’s Burger Bus – Houston, TX- @BerniesBurgers

Chunk n Chip – all over California – @chunknchip

Colibri Cuisine – Austin, TX – @ColibriCuisine

Create Burger – El Paso, TX – @CreateGoEats

Dogellos – Austin, TX – @DOGellos

Go Fish Food Truck from Brother Trucker – Boston, MA – @BrotherTrucker

Dusty Buns Bistro – Central Valley, CA – @dustybunsbistro

Hail Caesar – Atlanta, GA – @CaesarTruck

Gorilla Cheese – Hamilton, ONT, Canada – @Gorilla_Cheese (not Gorilla Cheese NYC)

Gourmet Rockstars -Palo Alto, CA – @GourmetRockstar

Guanaco – Vancouver, BC, Canada – @guanacotruck

Hello My Name is BBQ – Charleston, SC – @hellobbq

Westcott Country Kitchen – Didsbury, AB, Canada – Facebook Page

Ruthie’s Rolling Café – Dallas, TX – @Ruthiesrolling

Memphis Munchies – Memphis, TN – @Memphismunchies

Momogoose – Boston, MA – @Momogoose

Oz Patisserie – Albuquerque, NM – @ozpatisserie

Papas Tapas MIA – Miami, FL – @PapasTapasMIA

Fat Boys House of BBQ – Bethlehem, PA – @fbhouseofbbq

Messy Giuseppe – St. Paul, MN – @MessyGTruck

Red Jett Sweets – Fort Worth, TX – @redjettsweetsFW

Red Oven Pizza – Carlsbad, CA – @RedOvenPizza

Smitten Ice Cream – San Francisco, CA – @Smittenicecream

Soho Road – Vancouver, BC, Canada – @SohoRoad

Soho Taco – Orange Country, CA – @SOHOTACO

The Bacon Wagon – Dallas, Fort Worth, TX – @baconwagon

Wing Xpress – Houston, TX – @WingXpress

Bacon Bacon – San Francisco, CA – @baconbaconsf

Twirlees- Chatham, ON, Canada- @twirlees

Way South Philly – Austin, TX – @waysouthphilly

Streat Food – Ferndale, WA – @streatfood

Hot Diggity Dog – Erieau Beach, ON, Canada

Wandering Bean – Toronto, ON, Canada

Chef Shack – Mpls./St.Paul, MN – @chefshack1

Luncha Libre – Phoenix, AZ – @LunchaLibre

So-Cal Tacos – Dallas, Fort Worth, Texas – @socaltacos

Puerto Vallarta Amigos – Victoria, BC, Canada – @pvamigos

Sweiner’s Swiss style hot dogs – San Diego, CA  - @sweinersswiss

49er Kitchen – El Paso, TX

Eat Jo Dawgs – Dallas, FW, TX – @eatjodawgs

Guapos Tacos – Philadelphia – @guapostacos

Mad dog Underground Cafe – Texas

Nammi Truck – Dallas, FW, TX – @nammitruck

Crepe Nation, LLC – San Antonio, TX – @crepenationllc

Rickshaw Stop – San Antonio, TX – @rickshawstopsa

“The secret to creating something memorable is often as simple as pairing unexpected flavors that really hit it off,” says Dave Hirschkop, owner of Dave’s Gourmet (www.davesgourmet.com), maker of award-winning sauces.

“It doesn’t have to be expensive or complicated,” he says. “If you mate ingredients that have chemistry, you’ll blow your guests away.”

If you’ve already created that blow-em-away recipe – the sauce that’s the hit at every gathering – it could win you up to $1million in royalties in Dave’s Gourmet Recipe Challenge.

Dave’s Gourmet is looking for a winner to add to its product line, and guess who’ll get the royalties for six years? That’s right – you. Up to $1 million.  Hey, it’s only fair if your name’s on the label.

Payday starts immediately with a $2,000 advance.

Just submit for your original recipe for a sauce, salsa or dip by Dec. 31 at www.davesgourmet.com. Dave’s team will test the recipes and choose semifinalists, who’ll be taste-tested by a Dave’s Gourmet panel. Finalists will be notified Jan. 12-14. The winner (or winners) will be chosen by food professionals attending the Fancy Foods Show in San Francisco. They’ll be notified Jan. 18.

Isn’t it about time your killer sauce paid off?  Dave thinks it is.

We received an email from Eat St. telling us about their first ever Vendor Video Contest. Vendors can win a chance to be filmed for an Eat St segment, with a little help from their friends.

Eat St. is encouraging street food vendors to submit a short video of their cart or truck in the Eat St. Video Contest!  Just tell them a little bit about your cart or truck and your food to enter the contest, then let your fans and customers vote your way to glory.

No video equipment? No problem. Take a quick video clip with your phone.  Videos are all about the content, not the video quality.

To enter the contest…

1. Shoot a quick video (5-90 seconds)

2. Submit your video to http://www.memelabs.com/eat-st by November 24th.

3. On Nov. 24^th, let your fans and customers know that voting has begun!

For more information, visit http://www.memelabs.com/eat-st. If you have any questions about the contest, email eatst@invokemedia.com.

One of the top 5 vote-getters will be selected to be filmed for a segment on Eat St.

Click here for a short video with even more about the contest.

Mexicue has been running recipe contests every season focused on one seasonal ingredient, from corn to cheddar cheese to butternut squash.  And the winning recipe is put on the Mexicue menu for a while.

The most recent recipe contest was just announced, and it’s…bacon.  Everything tastes better with bacon, so this should be quite a contest.

Below is the Fall Contest winner and their tasty creation – a taco with butternut squash, cilantro lime crema, tortilla strips, spicy slaw and cotija cheese.  Can’t wait to try one!

A little while ago, we told you that in addition to a new store, Mexicue was coming out with a second truck.

In order to differentiate the trucks from each other (and to give us something fun to do), they are holding a contest to name the Mexicue trucks.

The person who comes up with the winning names gets a free taco or slider every day for a year!  That’s a lot of tacos and sliders.

Click through for further details.

Per Mexicue’s instructions, think famous Mexican duos, notorious Southern pairs or whatever creative couple moniker you’ve got up your sleeve.

The winning name will be clever and funny, yet short and sweet (i.e. Twitter friendly). To enter, send your ideas to their twitter account with the hashtag #mexicuenames, email them to contests@mexicue.com, or post them to Mexicue’s Facebook page.

We have already entered this contest. but if we happen to win, the prize will be given to one very lucky New York Street Food reader.

Good luck everyone!

We just got this announcement from Susan of the Red Hook Lobster Pound:

During August,  with each order on Big Red, get a raffle ticket.  The winner gets a lobster roll a week for a year!  The winner will only be announced on Twitter and Facebook.

The question is “Do you feel lucky”?  Even if you don’t win, you still get a delicious lobster roll for lunch with your raffle ticket.  Sounds like a good deal to us.

burnt ends chili slider & Alabama chicken taco

Last month, we told you about Mexicue’s Summer Recipe Contest, which was for recipes featuring sweet corn from Lancaster Farm Fresh.

The contest is down to three finalists, and now it’s up to you to vote for your favorite.  The three recipes are The Elote Taco, The Sunset Taco and the Scooped Out Cojita Corn Slider.   Vote for your favorite by July 22.

After voting for your favorite sweet corn recipe, you can watch Mexicue co-founder Thomas Kelly cook up a brisket slider on Live with Regis and Kelly this Friday.

And if that isn’t enough, you can always check out their new store at 345 7th Ave, between 29th & 30th St.

The contestants for Season 2 of The Great Food Truck Race have been announced, and Korilla BBQ is representing the Big Apple this year.  The Season 2 premiere is Sunday, Aug. 14th at 10pm on the Food Network. There are 8 food trucks competing for the $100,000 Grand Prize.  Click through to meet the contestants, and to find out how you can win a trip worth $5,000 to the NYC Wine & Food Festival.

New York Street Food readers will be familiar with Korilla BBQ, who we’ve been talking about since going to their Launch Party last October, and have become quite friendly with over the last 9 months.

The other 7 contestants are Cafe Con Leche from L.A., Devilicious Food Truck from San Diego, Hodge Podge from Cleveland, Roxy’s Grilled Cheese from Boston, Seabird’s Food Truck from Costs Mesa (CA), Sky’s Gourmet Tacos from L.A. and The Lime Truck from Irvine, CA. You can read more about them here.

We’re sure all the contestants are great, but with a horse in this race, we’re rooting for our home town buds, Korilla BBQ.

NYSF with Eddie from Korilla BBQ at their Launch Party

With filming already done for Season 2 and the contestants sworn to secrecy, The Great Food Truck Race is already looking for contestants for Season 3.

You can win a trip worth $5,000 to the NYC Wine & Food Festival by nominating your favorite food truck here. You need to nominate them by August 5th, and then starting August 14th, vote for your favorite food truck and receive an entry into the sweepstakes for this great trip. You can vote once per day, and each vote gives you an entry into the sweepstakes.

Let’s try to nominate at least one more NYC truck for Season 3 of The Great Food Truck Race. There are way too many West Coast trucks in Season 2.

photo: Cool Hunting

As we previously mentioned, Kelvin Natural Slush, Don Q Rum and the Classic Car Club of Manhattan are throwing a “Prohibition Style” Kelvin Slush Happy Hour tomorrow evening, and they were kind enough to provide us with some tickets to this exclusive event for a few lucky New York Street Food readers.

All you had to do to win was to come up with your best “Prohibition Style” drink using the ingredients available from Kelvin Slush and Don Q Rum.  We have a little twist in the final winners, so click through to check out some fun and interesting recipes, as well as meet the contest winners.

Kelvin Slush and the Classic Car Club just told us that we could offer tickets to 4 winners and their guests from New York Street Food instead of the original 2 winners that we expected!

Congratulations to Leighann, Tati, 831 Tobias and Bob Jones.  You and your guests will be attending the Kelvin Slush/Don Q Rum “Prohibition Style” Happy Hour tomorrow evening from 7-9pm.  I will send you an email with additional details.

Below are some great drink recipes.  You might even want to try making them at home.  Congratulations again to all the winners!

Kelvin Punch by Leighann

Perhaps it has something to do with the stifling heat of this summer or my impending first trip to Tales of The Cocktail, but I’ve been super into punch recipes lately. That being said, my Kelvin cocktail is a simplified adaptation of Fish House Punch, minus the cognac, of course! The base will be the refreshingly delicious Tangy Citrus slush, combined with the White Peach fruit puree mix-in, combined with DonQ Anejo. The citrus and white peach mimic the peach schnapps and fresh lime juice in the original recipe, and DonQ Anejo supplies the fine flavor profile of an aged rum.

La Cuba Mia by Tati

-Spicy Ginger
-Pink Guava
-Mint
-Don Q Mojito Rum

What better to represent the mystery, passion, and heat of a summertime Prohibition party than a Mojito inspired cocktail? It may not be traditional to the era but breaking some rules should be part of the fun, especially when it tastes so good ; )

Sipping the Pink by Gia

The drink’s name is a nod to little-known band from the ’80s called Kissing the Pink with a great little song called “Big Man Restless” and the drink itself is a play on a dark & stormy Mix Kelvin’s Spicy Ginger flavor with  some mango puree and a touch of passion fruit Don Q.  A sip of this and you’ll feel anything but restless!

Peach Passion (Mojito) by Tobias831

Summer is the time for light, sweet, …and lots of flavor/ color.

So I think my Prohibition Mix is just the thing to keep you cool during this blazing heat.

Peach Passion (Mojito)

Tangy Citrus
Blood Orange
White Peach
Fresh Mint (Muddled)
Don Q Pasión Rum

This drink is also inspired by the mojito, but with a lot more color.

How would you like your taco recipe featured on The Taco Truck menu?  Sounds great, doesn’t it?

While the ongoing Mexicue recipe contest focuses on a specific ingredient (cheddar cheese in the spring, sweet corn in the summer), The Taco Truck is holding an open call for any and all great taco recipes.

The Taco Truck will select the 3 finalists, but we the people will vote on the winner.  Click through for more details.

To enter, The Taco Truck’s facebook wall can be found here.  No word yet on when this contest ends.  Good luck to all who enter!