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Food Trucks In NYC To Ditch Diesel, Go Solar
A pilot ‘food truck’ program unveiled this week will give vendors a chance to lease up to 500 energy-efficient, solar-powered carts for five years at no or little cost. Very cool initiative. Check it: Solar Food Trucks
April 2014 Tampa Mayor’s Food Truck Fiesta
The City of Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn’s monthly Food Truck Fiesta is this Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014 from 11:00AM-2:00PM at Lykes Gaslight Square Park located in Downtown Tampa at 410 North Franklin Street Tampa, FL 33602. Get outside and check out some of your favorite local Tampa trucks there.
Participating food trucks include:
- Street Surfer – NEW
- Jimmy’s Slider Truck– NEW
- Jimmy Meatballs
- Hott Mess
- Rollin Zoinks
- Michelle Faedo’s On The Go
- Aloha-To-Go
- Smoothin and Shaken
- Holy-Hog BBQ
Like The Mayor’s Food Truck Fiest on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MayorsFoodTruckFiesta
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Flicks & Food Trucks Lineup – March 20th, 2014
Tonight is Flicks & Food Trucks from 6PM-10PM located in Grand Central at Kennedy in Downtown Tampa. Flicks and Food Trucks is a great way to try many of your local food trucks while enjoying independent films and live music, in addition to microbrews. The event is the 3rd Thursday of every month.
Here is the food truck lineup:
- Americanwiener
- Dude and His Food Truck
- Burger Culture
- Carletti’s Gourmet Pizza
- Cluckz Chicken
- Disco Donuts
- I Wanna Wok
- Latino Food Truck
- LemonBar of Florida
- LizzyCakes
- Mobile Munchiez
- Nate Paul’s Q4U
- Pocket Rockets
- Rollin Zoinks
- Sweet Shelia’s Funnel Cakes
- Whatever Pops
- Wicked Wiches
Download TruckSpotting for Android and iOS and find all your favorite food trucks around Tampa Bay and beyond!
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About Carlos Hernandez: Carlos Hernandez is the owner and author of local Tampa-based food blog, Carlos Eats, and attends dozens if not hundreds of food events every year in Tampa Bay and beyond. Follow Carlos on Twitter @CarlosEats and Like him on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/carloseatsblog
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Odessa Food Truck Festival – 3/14
The Odessa Organic Farmers Market is Friday, March 14th, 2014 from 5PM-9PM. The event is located at 8701 Gunn Hwy, Odessa FL. Come out for a great time with some of your favorite food trucks. Live music will be provided by Travis and Justin from 5PM-7PM and the Three-13 Band from 7PM-9PM. Big Storm Brewing will be pouring beer as well.
Food Truck Line-up!
South Pacific Grill
Cruisin Cuisine
The Inside Scoop
Disco Donuts
PAO Truck
Big Bang BBQ
South Pacific Grill
Cruisin Cuisine
The Inside Scoop
Disco Donuts
PAO Truck
Big Bang BBQ
Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/events/409041502466127/
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About Carlos Hernandez: Carlos Hernandez is the owner and author of local Tampa-based food blog, Carlos Eats, and attends dozens if not hundreds of food events every year in Tampa Bay and beyond. Follow Carlos on Twitter @CarlosEats and Like him on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/carloseatsblog
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What We’re Reading – Food Truck Edition
Plenty of news and articles have been posted recently regarding food trucks. Here are some of the articles we have been reading:
- Building a Food-Truck Paradise in a Parking Lot – Food trucks will soon be able to park on Toronto streets , although a number of restrictions are still in place due to restaurants and restaurants fighting the food truck movement using regulations.
- Calling All Foodies: Vote Now For America’s Favorite Food Truck, Donut, and more: Tablespoon.com’s third-annual People’s Choice Food Awards, also known as “The Munchies”, is happening now. Go vote for your favorite food truck! Voting ends March 31st.
- NJ Food Trucks: The 20 best menu items from around the state – Hungry for food trucks? Check out this list of some of the best eats in Jersey. Warning: May inspire an unbearable appetite and a trip to Jersey!
- The Ten Best Cities for Food Trucks in the United States – Hopper Blog talks the ten best cities for food trucks in the USA. Not surprisingly, Chicago – one of TruckSpotting’s spotted towns is on the list.
- Boston Food Trucks Are Going to Test Late-Night Hours – Food trucks seem perfect for the late-night crowd, right? Boston is going to test it out with the the Boston Police Department approving food trucks serving dinner until midnight.
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About Carlos Hernandez: Carlos Hernandez is the owner and author of local Tampa-based food blog, Carlos Eats, and attends dozens if not hundreds of food events every year in Tampa Bay and beyond. Follow Carlos on Twitter @CarlosEats and Like him on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/carloseatsblog
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Tampa Flicks and Food Trucks – 2/20
This Thursday, February 20th, 2014 is the monthly Flicks and Food Trucks in Downtown Tampa’s Grand Central at Kennedy! Enjoy a night of local independent films, microbrews, live music, and 10+ gourmet food trucks.
Here is a list of the food trucks participating:
- Burger Culture
- Cajun in a Truck
- Daily Grinders
- Disco Donuts
- Dochos
- Holy Crepe
- Jimmy Meatballs
- Lemon Bar
- Maggie on the Move
- Nico’s Arepas Grill
- PaniniRiffic
- PAO Truck
- Sweet G’s BBQ
- The Cheesesteak Truck
- Unforgettable Cupcakes
- Whatever Pops
- Wicked Wiches
Social Media Contest
Use the hashtag #TruckSpotting during Flicks and Food Trucks on Thursday via Twitter and Instagram and you will be entered to win one of two $20 VISA gift cards. Be sure to follow Truckspotting on Twitter (http://twitter.com/tspotting) and Instagram (http://instagram.com/truckspotting) so we can monitor your posts and get in contact if you win.
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Bem Bom Food Truck & 5 Other Orlando Food Trucks Filming This Weekend For Eat St. TV
Several Orlando food trucks will be filming to be featured on The Cooking Channel’s Eat. St. TV this weekend. One of the food trucks is Bem Bom Food Truck, which was one of the participants in the 100+ Truck Rally Festival this past August that attracted over 30,000 people to the Florida State Fairgrounds for a record-breaking day of food truck consumption and fun.
Bem Bom is one of the food trucks I was most excited about at the 100+ Truck Rally Festival because they serve Portugese cuisine and it was my first opportunity to try it! I expressed my excitement to the Tampa Tribune and the crowds around Bem Bom were just staggering at the event…I did get to try one dish that day though thanks to the chef and it was excellent!
The dish I tried was the Piri-Piri Chicken Prego which features all natural local chicken tenderloins with piri-piri marinade, melted island cheese, pico de gallo, and piri-piri sauce. Literally one of the best chicken sandwiches I have ever enjoyed! Piri-Piri sauce is prevalent in Angola, Namibia, Mozambique and South Africa and is traditionally made from crushed chillies, citrus peel, onion, garlic, pepper, salt, lemon juice, bay leaves, paprika, pimiento, basil, oregano, and tarragon.
The chicken sandwich was a little spicy, but only in a way that enhances your appreciate for the flavors of the chicken. More trips to Orlando are certainly in order to have more Bem Bom Food Truck. Good luck to them on Friday when they film with Eat. St. at 12:00PM at Southeast Steel (63 W Amelia St. Orlando, FL 32801). Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/events/1426251624277605/
We’re also very excited to announce that Bem Bom Food Truck will be one of the first food trucks in Orlando to start using Truckspotting so hungry diners in Orlando can find their favorite food truck.
Read more about the other trucks being featured on Eat St. TV on Orlando food blog Droolius: http://droolius.com/2014/01/eat-st-tv-show-returns-to-orlando-to-film-six-local-food-trucks/
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About Carlos Hernandez: Carlos Hernandez is the owner and author of local Tampa-based food blog, Carlos Eats, and attends dozens if not hundreds of food events every year in Tampa Bay and beyond. Follow Carlos on Twitter @CarlosEats and Like him on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/carloseatsblog
City of Tampa Mayor’s Food Truck Fiesta
On the first Wednesday of each month Tampa’s Mayor, Bob Buckhorn, hosts the Mayor’s Food Truck Fiesta and showcases several new food trucks as well as local favorites at Lykes Gaslight Square Park (410 N. Franklin St.) from 11 A.M. to 2 P.M. Several of these trucks use the Truckspotting GPS system.
Here are some photos from last week’s food truck fiesta:
Walking down Downtown you see the food trucks lined up and ready to serve. The trucks bring people out for the day and benefit both the local businesses in Downtown and the food truck culture in Tampa Bay. Bob Buckhorn’s commitment to the local economy is certainly exemplified in his push for events like this and several other cities have now followed in this direction.
Several food carts and local vendors also set up at the fiesta and encourage the local economy.
The happy baker is a hotspot at the event.
Hot Box’d Steamed Cheeseburgers is one of the local food trucks in Tampa using Truckspotting to help people find their location. Hot Box’d is the only place in Tampa serving steamed cheeseburgers, a popular trend up in Connecticut. Check out this article on their truck in the Osprey Observer: http://www.ospreyobserver.com/2013/08/hot-boxd-food-truck-offers-twist-on-cheeseburgers-in-tampa-area/
If you haven’t been to the Mayor’s Food Truck Fiesta yet, the next one will be Wednesday, October 2nd, 2013.
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About Carlos Hernandez: Carlos Hernandez is the owner and author of local Tampa-based food blog, Carlos Eats, and attends dozens if not hundreds of food events every year in Tampa Bay and beyond. Follow Carlos on Twitter @CarlosEats and Like him on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/carloseatsblog
What We’re Reading – Food Truck Edition
Plenty of news and articles have been posted recently regarding food trucks. Here are some of the articles we have been reading:
- A new airport dining option: food trucks – Many airports around the country have started hosting food trucks in their cellphone waiting lots, including Truckspotting local airport, Tampa International Airport, who was one of the first to adopt this trend. According to the article’s report from the National Restaurant Association, 43% of adults have now purchased items from a food truck.
- Miami’s food truck craze catches on for school meals – Food trucks are being used to deliver healthy meals to students in public schools now with Miami-Dade county joining in.
- How one association is leading a food truck revolution – The SoCal Mobile Food Vendors Association is offering help to other city vendors to get set up with an association free of charge. A great read for both food truck enthusiasts, advocates, and food truck owners.
- Best food trucks in San Francisco – SFist talks their favorite food trucks in the city of the Golden Gate.
- Food Truck Freedom: How to Build Better Food-Truck Laws in Your City – This report by the Institute for Justice is a great read for food truck activists or anyone who wants more information on why food trucks are great for your city!
About Carlos Hernandez: Carlos Hernandez is the owner and author of local Tampa-based food blog, Carlos Eats, and attends dozens if not hundreds of food events every year in Tampa Bay and beyond. Follow Carlos on Twitter @CarlosEats and Like him on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/carloseatsblog