New York Street Food

"High priest" Anthony Bourdain blesses the Big Gay Ice Cream Shop

With the weather expected to be rainy for the next few days, you can still enjoy great street food indoors from some of your favorite vendors.  Here’s brick-and-mortar news from a few of them – Big Gay Ice Cream Truck, Mexicue and Cupcake Stop.

On Saturday, the Big Gay Ice Cream Shop opened at 125 East 7th St between 1st Ave and Ave A.  The Grand Opening of the store was blessed by “high priest” (wink, wink) Anthony Bourdain, and there was a lot of other craziness going on too.  Click here for the Big Gay Ice Cream blog, which has video and more info on this special event.

Lunch from the first Mexicue store

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On Sunday, the first day gay marriage will be legal in NYS, Cupcake Stop will be celebrating with the above cupcakes on their trucks.

No word yet on where they will be parking, but somewhere near City Hall sounds about right!

Talk about perfect timing!

Cupcake Stop (x 2) is back on the street today, just in time for 4/20 parties.

They have 2 trucks -  one is parked at 58th St & 8th Ave, right by the Columbus Circle subway station and one is at 7th Ave bet 6th-7th street in Park Slope.  If you take a picture of either truck and send it to them, it will be posted on their facebook page.

I’m not sure exactly what time they’re open until, but I can’t imagine anyone celebrating 4/20 is up yet.

Great to have Cupcake Stop back on the street!

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!

Lots of action on the food truck to store (or restaurant) front.

Last weekend we went to brunch at Elephant & Castle on Greenwich Ave in the Village.  Right next door at 70 Greenwich Ave (just east of 7th Ave) is where the new Cupcake Stop Flagship Store will be opening, hopefully in a week or two according to Lev Ekster, the owner (or should we say Cupcake Magnate).  That makes 3 “brick & mortar” locations and 2 trucks for the growing Cupcake Stop empire and 2009 Vendy Award Finalist in the Dessert category.

NYC Cravings

As we mentioned earlier this week, Diana from NYC Cravings told us they were closing the truck for the winter after this week because they were opening a place within a Korean food court at 11 West 32nd St (between 5th & 6th Ave), and they were expecting to open in about 2 weeks.  Now you won’t have to wait until next spring for Taiwanese fried chicken, pork chops, zongzi, tea eggs and more from the 2009 Vendy Award Finalist in the Rookie of the Year category.

Calexico Carne Asada

The Vendley Brothers of Calexico Carne Asada fame, who won the (main category) Vendy Cup in 2008, are about to add another outpost in their slow colonization of New York.  Their new restaurant at 645 Manhattan Ave in Greenpoint, Brooklyn joins the already popular restaurant at 122 Union Street in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn and their two carts currently operating in Soho.  The Union St restaurant won Time Out New York’s Reader’s Choice Award for the Best New Mexican Restaurant of 2010, so expectations are high for this new spot, which is scheduled to open in 1 week.

QBA Cuban Kitchen (in progress)

Last, but certainly not least, the QBA Cuban Kitchen food truck is opening a restaurant on Montclair, NJ.  No wonder we haven’t seen them on the street much lately.  Details are scarce at this point, but we’re sure chef Lynna Martinez and company have something special planned for Montclair.