New York Street Food

Friday marks the reappearance of Wooly's Ice, Winner of Best Dessert at the 2011 Vendy Awards. Wooly's will be one of the vendors at the TAP-NY Taiwanese Night Market on Friday night.  Tickets are sold out, but our friends at Google Places are giving away 10 tickets.  Click through to find out how you can win tickets to this event....

A scrape over a Bay Ridge sidewalk escalated into an all-out war last week, when a controversial halal cart mowed down a Fifth Avenue bar owner during a fight over a coveted corner spot, witnesses claim. Sammy Kassen, manager of the Middle Eastern Halal Cart (holding a list of signatures from customers supporting his food cart), was trying to reclaim...

I'm glad lots of the food trucks change up their menus from time to time or have rotating specials.  That gives me a chance to try something new for lunch on a regular basis.  In fact, I got to try 2 new things on my visit to Gorilla Cheese late last week. What caught my attention was the special, a...

Food tours are all the rage, from street food tours to ethnic and neighborhood food tours - but the latest one doesn't involve any eating. Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx will introduce a food-related walking tour of noteworthy New York City’s food figures later this month. Herman Ossian Armour, a member of the meatpacking family whose name is linked to hot...

With all the difficulties food trucks are running into, from police harassment to oppressive regulations to difficulties with other vendors, two food truck lots are providing vendors with a safe, new outlet to serve customers. We recently stopped by the World Financial Center (WFC) Food Truck Court and the Long Island City (LIC) Food Truck Lot to check them out. The...

In May 2011, we ran across a new food truck called Valducci’s Original Pizza.  The people behind Valducci's had a pizzeria in Staten Island for 22 years, but the truck had only been around for a few days at that point. Now Valducci's has been around for almost a year, and we recently stopped by one of their regular spots...

Hope everyone had a nice holiday weekend.  If you're still celebrating Passover, don't forget that Gorilla Cheese is offering any sandwich as a matzoh melt. Andy's Italian Ices is back for the season, and will be at the LIC Lot today.  The Columbia Food Pod has a strong lineup too, including the return of Feed Your Hole, who basically had...

If you're observing Passover this week, you can still enjoy a delicious grilled cheese sandwich.  Gorilla Cheese NYC is serving their regular sandwiches on matzoh at the customer's request. If you try one, please let us know what you think.  Their schedule for this week can be found here. Now you can have pulled pork and cheese on matzoh for Passover. ...

Friday afternoon we found out that we had to be in Massachussetts on the same day as The Great Googa Mooga festival, so we cooked up a quick little contest to give away2 pairs of tickets for Sunday, May 20th. Congratulations to Melissa Rodriguez, who will be writing a Guest Review for us on the Food Section and Jon Eklund,...

When free tickets for The Great Googa Mooga festival were distributed online a few weeks ago, it turned into a major clusterf__.  We were in line for tickets at least 5 times, then couldn't complete the transaction, spending more than an hour trying to get tickets. That night, we received an email from the ticket company with our confirmation of...