New York Street Food

New Jersey is about to get a little sweeter!

The Le Petit Temptation dessert truck is ready to roll back into Jersey City tomorrow.  They will be at the Creative Grove Market next to the PATH exit on Fridays, and by Hamilton Park on Saturdays.

Le Petit Temptation is a modern French patisserie that we have written about in the past.  We tried them at the 2010 NYC Food Film Festival Drive-In, and have kept in touch with the owner Jessie ever since.

Jessie was selling his line of pastries at the Liberty Towers gourmet shop on Hudson St in Jersey City and at the Greene-Ville Gardens store in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, but we’re not sure if that is still the case.

So what can you expect from Le Petit Temptation?

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I was walking down Park Avenue South on Friday and ran across a new truck by 19th St selling “Old Fashioned Hand Made Italian Ices”.  I only heard of Andy’s Italian Ices once before, when they stepped in at the last minute at the Long Island City Food Truck Lot when one of the scheduled trucks couldn’t make it.  I just saw on twitter they were also at the LIC Lot today.

The menu had Italian ices made with water or cream, and even a few sugar free ones, which I was told were made with agave.  The flavor menu was pretty cool, with flavors like cotton candy, margarita and cappucino crunch.

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Cupcake Stop at the 2009 Vendy Awards

It looks like the original NYC cupcake truck (and 2009 Vendy Award finalist in the Dessert category) Cupcake Stop, will be returning to the NYC street very soon.

Just this morning, Cupcake Stop tweeted “Yes we are really coming back and thank you to all of our fans and loyal customers who have supported us RT @Bklyntravel: Is @CupcakeStop really back?”

There is a countdown clock on their website that says “Stay tuned for a delicious announcement!”

Many New Yorkers are going to be very happy this morning.

See, Monday’s don’t have to suck!

As I was heading to lunch today, I saw a pink truck in the distance that I wanted to check out further.  As I got closer, it turned out to be a new frozen yogurt truck called YOGO that was on the corner of 19th St & 5th Ave.  I had never seen them before, so I stopped to talk to the proprietor, Tony.  Click through to find out more about YOGO.

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Today was a beautiful day outside, so I headed down to Chinatown to check out one of the Vendy Award Dessert Finalists I was not familiar with – Yao’s Dragon Beard Candy.  They are on the south side of Canal St between Mott St & Elizabeth St every day from 11-7, as long as it’s not raining.  As you can see from the picture above, candy always draws a crowd, especially kids.

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