New York Street Food

There was an astounding controversy in the recent TIWYF (This Is Why You're Fat) Eat 'N Tweet street food contest.  It was not won by a fat person. Nick McGlynn (not a fat person) won the recent This Is Why You're Fat Eat 'N Tweet contest, in which the winner had to find six participating street food trucks on twitter,...

For those of you not in New York this weekend, here's some great out-of-town street food: In Lake Worth, FL (near West Palm Beach), Swanky's Low and Slow Barbecue has sandwiches made with pulled pork that has been cooked for 30 hours.  Next time I'm in South Florida, have to give it a try A rotisserie truck :) in San...

The ultimate New York Street Food is a hot dog (or tube steak, as my father-in-law calls it).  Endless Simmer takes a trip around the boroughs to check out the multitude of hot dogs available in NYC

There are many street vendors selling great New York Street Food who are not on Twitter and are not being covered by the usual food writers and bloggers .  NYT profiles some of these "unknown" street vendors selling such great items as tofu kebabs, black sesame porridge, alcapurrias de carne, pastelillos, tlacayos and many other favorites from their home...

Be on the lookout for a new Bobby Flay Throwdown! with the Wafels & Dinges truck.  Good luck Bobby.  These are some serious wafels. Picknick Smoked BBQ will be presenting Daily Specials soon at their downtown truck Channel 13 profiled Carlos Sarabia's coffee cart on 33rd St and 9th Ave as part of their series New York On The...

Over a hundred street vendors protested at City Hall against perceived police crackdowns.  Vendors say that instead of civil summonses (tickets), vendors are being arrested and facing criminal charges.  This could have devastating effects on many of the vendors, 83% of whom are estimated to be immigrants.

Madison Square Park gets some new food stalls Biryani Cart gets grief from its neighbor, Cafe Europa Non Sequitur gets into the food cart frenzy with a cart-toon

I walked out my front door Saturday (10/24) thinking about going to dumpling heaven.  Instead, I ended up in dumpling hell! The NY Dumpling Festival on Sat (10/24) was a decent idea, very poorly executed.   The festival was sponsored by Chef One, a large food manufacturer, so I wasn't expecting the world's most amazing dumplings.  There was good variety and...

I went to the 2009 Vendy Awards on Saturday, and a great time was had by all.  There were 650 tickets 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...

Unfortunately, not every Vendy Award Finalist can win their category, but every finalist had great food.  Here's a look at the great street food that did not win in their category, but we were all winners for having eaten their food. Vendy Cup Finalists (excluding the winner) The Rickshaw Dumpling Truck had great dumplings (duh!), but their plate had some nice...