robbalvey Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 ^ The Baby's Badass Burger truck was promoting their vegan friendly burgers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
printersdevil78 Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Wow, was I surprised to see this on the front page! Thanks, Elissa! Â If anyone wants to join me in forming an "Ocean's Eleven"-type scheme to hijack that French fry truck next year, let me know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beatle11 Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Global warming my ass! You sure this wasn't an ACE gathering? Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SharkTums Posted February 27, 2011 Author Share Posted February 27, 2011 Wow, was I surprised to see this on the front page! Thanks, Elissa! Â Hey, we all love food and it is the offseason so this totally qualifies as front page material! Â Thanks for all the kind words everyone, it was a really fun event and I hope to cover more in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WFChris Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Thanks for posting this photo TR! Â For any Los Angeles residents that are not aware, once a month you can find all of the food trucks in one place at the Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk. There are at least 100 different food trucks there and its a crazy weird BUSY environment. It happens once a month on the 2nd Thursday of the month. Here is a link: http://www.downtownartwalk.com/ Â This TR made me as hungry as everybody else here so I thought I might share a way to try it (in an entirely different environment) in the near future! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doom1001 Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 I have one of these food truck food courts like five minutes from my house,it's every Friday night in a Toyota dealer's parking lot,I've yet to go but I know they don't charge admission.I've heard if you don't get there like at 6-7pm the lines get like an hour plus for most trucks,hence the reason why I've yet to go.Also the Japanese Peruvian combo food truck isn't all that strange,Peru supposedly is full of Japanese,my brother is actually dating a Japanese girl born in Peru. Â http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tamiami-Truckers-Food-Court/198928616785051?sk=photos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osm Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 While food trucks have a history of making me nauseous, the food here looked pretty tasty. Maybe I've just been eating at the wrong places. Great TR, it would be cool if NYC did something like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cal1br3tto Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Fun! These are also majorly popular in Portland. But I don't have refined enough taste to eat at them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disneyfan1313 Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Awesome TR! Stacey and I loved watching "The Great Food Truck Race" - I really hope they do another one! Bummer the nom-nom folks weren't the one from the show. We have a severe death of food trucks in Orlando... Last great food truck we hit was in NYC - www.biggayicecreamtruck.com/. I had "The Salty Pimp" and it was awesome.. Big Gay Ice Cream Truck for the win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mightbeawannabe Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 This is awesome! I've never heard of such a thing, I just thought they showed up at fairs and such. I couldn't eat quite as much of it as you three did, it's not really my fancy, but I'd certainly try a few for kicks. Â I hope KT doesn't have a tummy-ache from eating her weight in food truck food! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rastuso Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Â Machete likes Korean food? Who'd a thought? Â The Churro Tots and Rajas Fries sound good to me. Â You beat me to it. He ain't Korean. Or Mexican, for that matter. Â -RO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jray21 Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Awesome TR! Stacey and I loved watching "The Great Food Truck Race" - I really hope they do another one! Bummer the nom-nom folks weren't the one from the show. We have a severe death of food trucks in Orlando... Last great food truck we hit was in NYC - www.biggayicecreamtruck.com/. I had "The Salty Pimp" and it was awesome.. Â Â They could make a Leslie Hall style amount of money at a TPR event Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sspaz1000 Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 What a great TR Elissa That would be an awesome place to try some different types of food I don't normally eat. Â Thanks for sharing this with us! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iowa Beaver Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Thanks for sharing, this type of festival is pretty awesome. So many food trucks... *drools* Â I live in an area with a large Hispanic population, so at least in my area, there are tons of Mexican food trucks at any given time. I just can't really visit them at night as they happen to generally be in pretty bad parts of town. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meteornotes Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 I just got home from being out all day, and had to check to see if you PTR was up! Thanks for posting this, it looks like it was amazing fun, and if/when they have this again, I'm totally flying out to check this out. Looks like there was a lot of cool stuff, and I'd really like to try a tapas truck! Â dt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dailey Enterprizes Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 You know I don't see any food trucks, other than Schwann's, here on the east coast. If Five Guys had a truck I'd definitely eat from it though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philrad71 Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Hehe...loved the no tomatoes truck! Â I'm with Robb - hate tomatoes!!!! Â Â Â Thanks for sharing, Elissa...I love stuff like this! I will have to do a trip report of the Taste of Buffalo next summer. It's similar, but they are all the local restaurants & wineries sharing small portions of their popular menu items. You buy tickets and then each sample costs from one to five tickets. Â They claim it's one of the largest food festivals in the country, so it can be very difficult to distinguish which foods to try! Taste of Buffalo - 2010. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ginzo Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Awesome TR. The local laws were recently changed here to allow food trucks. They weren't allowed before and a lot of established restaurants don't like them because it allows up-and-coming chefs to compete with little start up money. Â We have a few food trucks now. Nothing great, but I am glad that we have that option finally. Â I've been wanting to go out to Austin to check out their food trucks. They reportedly have a really nice array of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaptorBoyASU Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 What about that legendary Korean food truck that you see on TV? Was it there? Eric  No it wasn't. I'd say there were two or three of the 'big' trucks missing: Kogi Truck, Grilled Cheese Truck, Grill em All and Dim Sum Truck were not at the event. Dim Sum was supposed to be, but when it was rescheduled they couldn't make it.  So I had a winterguard competition in Covina on Saturday, and when I arrived it was a food truck festival instead of concession stand as a fundraiser for the host school. Grilled Cheese Truck was there, so thus the absence of it up in the SCV. I found two new ones that I enjoyed. Phamish which had Banh Mi, fresh spring rolls, and Pho. And Slammin Sliders which had awesome kobe sliders.  Glad you enjoyed the festival! It's good that they are doing these events out in the burbs so more people get to experience this "food revolution" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nursemelis374 Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Glad you guys had fun! It looks like they made some good changes after the OC one we went to. When we went there was just VIP or GA and during the VIP not all the trucks were even open. I think the weather definitely worked in your favor and I think that it was probably a good thing that some of the mega-popular trucks cancelled so maybe less people came. It also seem like there was more variation at this one. I felt like every truck at the OC fest was some sort of Mexican-fusion. Â We also thought of doing the group-attack method right at the beginning if we went again! Â Thanks for posting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aimster Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 I wish there were food trucks in Florida. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beyondthepalace Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 I wish there were food trucks in Florida. Â Agreed. The closest we come to food trucks here in Orlando is at the fairs, and even that is pretty crappy here. Central FL and Osceola Fair have none of the specialty fair foods (fried pepsi and the like). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jew Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 I'm glad these food truck festivals are becoming more common. I love the food trucks, but absolutely despise having to follow them on twitter just to find them (and then seeing a huge line at the spot they are going to be at). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevilSaint Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 I'm glad these food truck festivals are becoming more common. I love the food trucks, but absolutely despise having to follow them on twitter just to find them (and then seeing a huge line at the spot they are going to be at). Â On his Facebook, Robb pointed out the sight www.roaminghunger.com It consolidates all the tweets in one page to make it pretty easy to find where all the different trucks are going to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jew Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 ^I'm aware of that site. I still think the process is dumb, even if it isn't totally the trucks fault (In many cities, there are laws that dictate how long they can stay w/o getting ticketed). Which is why I will only go to the trucks that stop by my house (guitar center & Ralphs on ventura blvd. are regular stops for some trucks) and visit the festivals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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