New York Street Food

The Southern California Mobile Food Vendors Association is assembling food trucks for a fundraising event on Saturday (23rd) to benefit the rescue and recovery operations in Haiti.  The trucks will gather at the TLofts in West L.A. from 11 am to 4 pm, which is at 11500 Tennessee Ave (bet Olympic and Butler). Already expressing interest in participating are the...

Thomas Degeest of Wafels & Dinges, winner of the 2009 Vendy Award for Best Dessert, and the current New York Street Food Featured Vendor, was victorious again, defeating Bobby Flay in a Throwdown challenge. Before the challenge, Bobby received some lessons in Liege wafels from Belgian chef Alain Coumont, founder of Le Pain Quotidien, but it wasn't enough to win...

One of the main reasons municipalities give for not wanting food trucks on their streets is that it takes away business from brick-and-mortar restaurants who pay rent.  But are food trucks really a threat to established food businesses?  Restaurant and Institutions magazine asked seven chefs and food truck operators for their opinion on this subject.  The general consensus was...

Today's Lunch is the lamb pita sandwich from the Kwik Meal cart on 45th St just west of 6th Ave.  Kwik Meal was a Vendy Award finalist in 2008 and the People's Choice winner in 2007. The lamb was cubed, tender and spiced with coriander and some other spices.  Very nice.  The sauce was a yogurt sauce like tzaziki (gyro)...

In rural Virginia, a husband-and-wife team are proving that you don't need to be in a big city to serve great street food and amass a decent following.   Serious Eats recently profiled Local Sixfortyseven, who in the past season set up at Virginia farmers' markets including Winchester, Centreville, George Mason University and Reston, as well as wineries like Barrel...

It's not exactly street food, but the New Orleans Roadfood Festival, set for March 26-28, looks amazing.  It will take over 5 blocks of Royal Street in the French Quarter, and highlight the diversity of American cuisine.  The festival will feature well-known food from all over America – each dish served by the restaurant that makes it best. Among the...

Good thing this video of the Food Cart Song is part of the Alka-Seltzer Great American Road Trip series, because after listening to these guys sing, you're gonna need some Alka-Seltzer. Although their voices are pretty grating, their hearts are in the right place in showing street food vendors as real people with real hobbies, hopes, dreams and families. We're not...

Scrappy Marketing goes to his local burrito truck for lunch on a regular basis, and provides these words of wisdom that every street food vendor should never forget: 1. Value is more important than ever.  (Everyone is watching their pennies these days.) 2. Convenience and service still count. (Nothing beats good service.) 3. Community sells. (Give people something they can rally around,...

Today's lunch is the grilled chicken breast platter with white sauce and hot sauce from Carnegie John's cart on West 56th St, just east of 7th Ave (behind Carnegie Hall). What sets Carnegie John's chicken and rice platter apart from most of the food carts out there is that John uses only whole white-meat chicken breasts that he cooks right...

Small, cozy and green.  No, we're not talking about Kermit.  These are some of the food and dining trends expected to be popular in 2010.  Big, flashy and expensive are out.  Frugal, sustainable, and back to basics are in.  Some of the foods expected to be popular are gourmet burgers, deep-fried fare, bite-size desserts, Korean food, and naturally, street...