New York Street Food

Thursday, August 26th is Van Leeuwen Free Ice Cream Day, presented by Gilt City New York.  To find out where the free ice cream will be, click here.

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Today is National Waffle Day and Wafels & Dinges is the obvious place to celebrate.  They will be on 52nd St between Lexington & 3rd Ave, and if you give them a drawing of their truck, you get a free waffle.  They will be decorating the truck with drawings of the truck, like some kind of zen puzzle.

Between 1pm and 2 pm, they will be crowning Miss Wafel and Mister Wafel 2010 , who each get a year of free wafels.  We hope there’s not a costume or uniform because there’s no way Miss Wafel or Mister Wafel will still fit into it after eating free wafels for a year.  We certainly wouldn’t be able to.

If you recall, Wafels & Dinges won the 2009 Vendy Award for Best Dessert (below), so treat yourself to a wafel today and enjoy the festivities at the same time.

Wafels & Dinges was the New York Street Food Featured Vendor in December 2009.  Click here to read the interview we did with Thomas DeGeest at the time.

Wafels and Dinges (and Dinges)

Street Sweets will be on CNBC’s Wall St. Journal Report with Maria Bartiromo this Sunday (25th).  The topic will be the emergence of high end mobile food operations, and how they are impacting a changing food culture.  Also on board the mobile cafe will be Barbara Fairchild,  Editor-In-Chief of Bon Appetit Magazine.

The show airs in New York on WNBC-4 this Sunday morning at 11:30am and nationally on CNBC Sunday evening at 7:30pm.

Outside of NYC please check you local listings for station and times.

Nice feature in today’s NY Times about the favorite new topping in our house – spekuloos from the Wafels & Dinges truck.  We picked up a jar less than 2 weeks ago…and it’s almost gone already

We do have a little disagreement on the taste though.  The label on the jar and the NY Times article say it’s made with gingerbread cookies, but it tastes more like graham crackers to us.  If it’s made with Belgian gingerbread cookies, they seem to be different from Dutch gingerbread cookies.

We were in Amsterdam in December 2008 for Sinterklaas, and the gingerbread cookies we had were a much darker brown with a significantly more pronounced ginger taste.  Personally, we like spekuloos better than the Dutch gingerbread we had in Amsterdam, but perhaps it was just a regional variation.  Either way, we’ll be back at the truck soon for some more.

Please sir, can we have some more?

We’ve been manning the communications channels and have some updates for all you New York Street Foodies out there.

• The new NYC Pizza Truck (above) let us in on some of their future plans.  According to the owner Adam, they are going to be offering thin crust cheese/pepperoni slices, pigs in blankets (yum!) and also soups and salads.  They are still sorting everything out with regard to pricing, but Adam assures us everything will be reasonably priced.

• If you’ve been wondering why the Calexico Carne Asada cart on Broome St has not been in it’s usual location – their permit expired.  Oops!  The Wooster & Prince cart is not affected and is still there weekdays for lunch.  The Vendley Brothers promise to have the Broome St. cart back in service as soon as possible.

• For all you frozen yogurt and coffee fans, a new truck called Joyride will be hitting the streets of Manhattan next Wed, July 21st.  Their motto is “Joy In A Cup”.  Their fro yo is made with organic yogurt and raw cane sugar – and you can get it buzzed (with a shot of caffeine) for only $.50 more.  Did we mention Joyride will also be serving Stumptown Coffee with quite an interesting array of coffee drinks, such as the Kubota (3 double shots of espresso infused with vanilla bean and marked with milk).  If that doesn’t put hair on your chest ladies, nothing will!  Full menu here.  Follow them on twitter here.

• There’s a new Moroccan food truck in town called Comme Ci, Comme Ça (”like this like that” in French) run by Chef Samir.  We haven’t tried it yet, but their specialty is couscous – vegetarian, beef, chicken and merguez sausage.  We love merguez sausage, so look for our review within the next week or so.  Their website is still a tabula rasa, but you gotta love their logo (below).  Follow them on twitter here, although we have also added them to our Mobile Munchies twitter feed.