New York Street Food

(credit: Red Hook Food Vendors twitter)

We’ve always had a soft spot in our heart for the Country Boys Taco Truck. At the first Vendy Awards we attended back in 2009, Country Boys Tacos won the Vendy Cup.

Country Boys was the first Red Hook Ballfield vendor to win the Vendy Cup, and that tally is now up to 3, with Solber Pupusas winning in 2011 and Piaztlan Bk in 2012.

Country Boys Wins 2009 Vendy Cup

(As you can see, Serious Eats macher, Ed Levine, was the Master of Ceremonies at the 2009 Vendys.)

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We saw a pretty cool event in Brooklyn next weekend that Frites ‘N’ Meats tweeted about – and it’s a fundraiser for a very good cause – public school arts education.

Touch-A-Truck Brooklyn will let kids climb inside, touch and explore the trucks you see everyday, plus a bunch of other cool vehicles.  All proceeds will benefit the arts programs at P.S. 295 – music, dance, drama, and visual arts.

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I went to the 2009 Vendy Awards on Saturday, and a great time was had by all.  There were 650 tickets sold and 11 Finalists were there in person competing in four categories: 2009 Vendy Award, Grey Poupon People’s Taste Award, Rookie Vendor of the Year and Desserts.

The 2009 Vendy Award winner is the Country Boys/Martinez Taco Truck, which is usually at the Red Hook Ballfields in Brooklyn.  Their pork tacos were awesome, and they had the longest lines of the day.

The Grey Poupon People’s Taste Award, which everyone who attended got to vote for, was the Biryani Cart, run by Meru Sikder.  He has been at the corner of 46th St and 6th Ave for the past 7 years.  While everything at Biryani Cart was excellent, people seemed to especially love the Kathi Rolls.

The Dessert winner was Wafels and Dinges, run by Thomas Degeest from Belgium.  In case you’re wondering Dinges means “stuff”, which refers to the toppings, such as bananas, strawberries, belgian fudge, whipped cream, ice cream, dulce de leche, walnuts, nutella, maple syrup or butter.  Thomas was a very happy man after winning the Dessert category.

The Rookie of the Year award went to Schnitzel and Things, a personal favorite of mine.  I Luv Schnitzel!

All the finalists were great.  See my other post on the rest of the finalists.