Street Food

The Great Food Truck Race Is Conducting A Casting Call For Season Four

The Dallas Film Commission posted information about a casting call on their website. According to the open casting call announcement The Great food Truck Race is gearing up for its fourth season, and they're looking for new contestants for the show. The announcement says they're looking for food lo ... More >>

Hitting the Streets of Bombay for Spring Break -- Well, Actually, Just Hitting the Food Truck

I tracked down the Bombay Street Food food truck yesterday. It's as close as I'll get to any type of interesting travel or cultural experiences this spring break. Not that Port Aransas in the early 1990's was a hotbed of cultural experiences, but you know, we play the hand we're dealt. I was exci ... More >>

Oink And Moo Barbecue Will Kill Us All, But Especially Me

The concept of a mobile barbecue food truck, which may appear next to me at any moment in any situation, is a health danger on a par with snakes, shoddily constructed buildings and being fired out of a cannon into the sun. Especially snakes. I really hate snakes. Previously, I would have had to driv ... More >>

The New Korean Fusion

Bulgogi meets tacos, and nachos, and hot dogs, and more.

Update on the Lower Greenville Food Truck Park and News of Cheese Steaks

Teresa Gubbins over at Culture Map just broke some news on the new food truck park going in across from a (future) Trader Joe's on Lower Greenville. Chef Jason Boso, of Twisted Root fame, has been tapped as "boss" of the food truck park, and he'll work on pulling together all the details. Boso, wh ... More >>

Don't Kneel Before Cod: Reviewing The Three Lions Food Truck

Food trucks get tons of attention, but is the food they're peddling any good? While evaluating creativity, curb appeal, value and taste to award Firestone tires, we're ranking Dallas' food trucks to sort out which one's are worth chasing around town and which ones may be headed for a blow out. See ... More >>

Cedars Food Truck Park Cancels Thursday Events - Focuses on Friday Nights

Brad Friedman with the Cedars Food Park has decided to cancel the weekly Thursday food truck events at Dallas Heritage Village, effective immediately. Instead he's going to focus on building the Friday night events, making them bigger and better, and hosting other large-scale and "pop-up" events at ... More >>

Dos Equis to Takeover Nammi Food Truck Next Week with Interesting Food and Free Lunches

Next week Dos Equis is hijacking the Nammi food truck for a little tryst through the most interesting streets of Dallas as part of a larger national event. The "adventurous tasting journey through the lens of local favorites" will provide truly interesting food. The Dos Equis Mobile Food Truck Aca ... More >>

Cedars Food Park Starts Regular Thursday Events This Week

See also: *Dispatch from The Cedars Food Park Event on Saturday (Spoiler Alert: They Nailed It) The Cedars Food Park at Dallas Heritage Village (1515 S. Harwood St.) is holding its first recurring Thursday night event this week. After an inspiring initial offering a few weeks ago, they're ready to ... More >>

Dispatch from The Cedars Food Park Event on Saturday (Spoiler Alert: They Nailed It)

See also: Photos from the Cedars Food Park Grand Opening Saturday evening a surly red rooster greeted visitors at the entrance of the Dallas Heritage Village with an ungracious crow from its coop. Inside the Old City Park south of downtown, the bright green sloping lawns were speckled with picnic b ... More >>

Gandolfo's Food Truck Could Use A Bit More Wizardry

Food trucks get tons of attention, but is the food they're peddling any good? While evaluating creativity, curb appeal, value and taste to award Firestone tires, we're ranking Dallas' food trucks to sort out which one's are worth chasing around town and which ones may be headed for a blow out. Rand ... More >>

While Awaiting Oasis, Valley View Center Transforms into Midtown Food Truck Fest. Naturally.

Back in April, Beck Ventures, a Dallas-based investment management company, told us of their big fancy plans to transform the Valley View Center into "Midtown Dallas; a mixed-use lifestyle project, creating an urban oasis at one of Dallas' most venerable and desirable locations." As we all know, t ... More >>

Easy Sliders Earns Easy Tires

Food trucks get tons of attention, but the simple question remains: is the food they're peddling any good? While evaluating creativity, curb appeal, value and taste to award Firestone tires, we're ranking Dallas' food trucks to sort out which one's are worth chasing around town and which ones may be ... More >>

Dreaming of Starting a Food Truck? First Read This, Then Figure Out Your Goal

If you've always dreamed of owning your own restaurant, there can be some real financial advantages to starting with a food truck, primarily because the initial investment is a fraction of opening a restaurant. Open Forum recently looked at the costs and, depending on a city and space, brick and m ... More >>

The Fort Worth Food Truck Park is No Longer BYOB. This is Your Opening, Dallas.

DFW Food Truck Foodie reported last night that the Fort Worth Food Park is opening its own cantina, which sounds great until you realize the rub: The park is no longer BYOB. Food truck dining can be a little, well, not cheap. But the BYOB aspect made it completely pleasurable. You could hang out at ... More >>

Rock and Roll Tacos Takes Over the Kitchen at Deep Ellum's LaGrange

The mobile food eatery Rock and Roll Tacos is taking over the kitchen at LaGrange in Deep Ellum in an effort to help both businesses spread taco love. The partnership solves a couple issues: For one, LaGrange is primarily a swanky lounge offering up local music and good drinks. "To be honest, the ... More >>

The Food TruckFest: It's a Race. And a Food Truck Party. In a Mall Parking Lot. Anyone?

U.S. Food Trucks, a company that builds, leases, sells and consults on mobile meal makers, recently announced what it's calling the first-annual state-wide Food TruckFest. The event combines approximately 30 food trucks from as far as San Antonio with a 5K race. (As if 3.2 miles could put a dent in ... More >>

The Arts District's Food-Truck Plaza is Back, But It Really Shouldn't Be This Hard, Dallas

Yesterday the Dallas Morning News reported that food trucks serving the Arts District had received notices of violations. They were operating in a public right of way and that's no good. The trucks responded by moving from where they were -- a plaza across from the AT&T Performing Arts Center -- in ... More >>

Deep Ellum Now Has Its Own Food Truck Rally, but Restaurant Owners Aren't All Thrilled

The Deep Ellum Outdoor Market shut down Main Street over the weekend for a food truck rally. For some, especially the 10 or so trucks there, the night was a success. Cajun Tailgators ran out of food at 9:30 p.m. The Munch Box had a "sea of people" outside their truck and only stopped serving when ... More >>

The Food Trucks Rally in Deep Ellum Tonight

The Deep Ellum Outdoor Market is hosting its first food truck rally tonight on Main Street between Malcolm X and Crowdus, which will be shut down for the event. The party lasts from 5:00 to 10:00 p.m., and a few bands will provide tunes, including My Wooden Leg and Hares on the Mountain. Brandon ... More >>

For the So-Cal Taco Truck, Feeding Tornado Victims Was a Lot Harder Than Expected

Tuesday evening, after tornadoes struck the metroplex, Scott Wooley, owner of the So-Cal Taco food truck, immediately started devising a plan to help the victims and relief workers. It's all part of his gratuitous spirit, which is partly a result of his fight with cancer several years ago. He's free ... More >>

For Day-Dreaming's Sake, a Look at Austin's South Congress Food Truck Park (with Photos)

I was down near Austin over the weekend (not for SXSW) and decided to check out the South Congress food truck park, to get a little sense of what may happen in Dallas by 2027. The food truck park is a testament to the best weirdness of Austin, as demonstrated by the musician just trying to earn a b ... More >>

Truckstock Brings 18 Food Trucks and Mobile Tunes to Oak Cliff This Saturday

Truckstock is coming this weekend to the Sylvan | Thirty development site. The folks behind Def Star, a truck that sells t-shirts and other apparel while spinning records, have thrown together what I think is the largest gathering of food trucks Dallas has seen yet. Eighteen trucks are confirmed, a ... More >>

Plans Remain For Food Trailer Court Parked Next to Trader Joe's on Old Arcadia Site

​Two questions this morning about Trader Joe's plans to build its first Dallas location on the site where once the Arcadia stood: Does this kill the food-trailer park Madison Partners had planned for the site, and what does this mean for the old Whole Foods spot everyone thinks is going to Walmart ... More >>

New Dallas City Council Rules Should Get Food Trucks Rolling into Dallas

So Cal Tacos​Over on Pegausus News, DFW Food Truck Foodie reported yesterday that the Dallas City Council has released the headlock they'd had on many North Texas food trucks by resolving a few code compliance issues. The biggest change is to allow retrofitted trucks. Previously the code allo ... More >>

Food Trucks Get in the Holiday Money-Making Spirit at Park Lane, Arts District Tree Lighting

​Shopping during a lunch break is a great way to whittle down that holiday gift list. To help make your multi-tasking hour even more fruitful, the Shops at Park Lane will have Food Truck Fridays every Friday in December from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The line-up includes 3 Men and a Taco, Gennarino' ... More >>

Dallas Appears Closer to Loosening Restrictions on Food Trucks

Gennarino's Food Truck: Italian guys serving grandma's recipes (anywhere but Dallas).​The Sigel's Winter Food Truck Festival grew out of its pants before it even got them on. The store's first festival was on a brilliant August day and drew over 2,000 people, all of whom risked melting into th ... More >>

Green House Food Truck: Nice Sandwich, Just Not Cheap Enough for This Bastard

​Each week, the Cheap Bastard goes looking for a new place to eat a meal for less than nine million dollars. This week, she checked out the Green House food truck, which sounds strangely healthy for Alice. For the truck's locations, check out this website. Minutes I waited for my sandwich cou ... More >>

When Palates Collide

Dallas City Hall Likes Food Trucks So Much It Wants to Make It Even Easier to Get in the Race

​There are a couple of council committee meetings worth keeping an eye on today; we're spending lunch with Transportation and Environment at 1, matter of fact, where the North Texas Clean Air Steering Committee's Oil and Gas Task Force, LBJ Express and Complete Streets are on the action-packed age ... More >>

Reminder: A Food Truck Doesn't Need a Kitschy Name or Paint Job to be Delicious

Lauren Drewes Daniels​I'd walked past the same food truck for a few weeks but never had the nerve to approach it and order anything. It was one of those big, plain white United Caterer trucks with the blue slanted windows on the top, parked in the same spot at a construction site for lunch eve ... More >>

SoCal Tacos and Gennarino's: Ready to Truck into Dallas, If Only Dallas Would Let Them

3 Men and a Taco's highly prized Dallas Food Permit. ​Yesterday I spoke with two DFW-area food trucks about their plans to hit the streets in Big D. Gennarino's is a Neapolitan-style friggitoria owned by three brothers from Naples, Italy. And SoCal Tacos serves up classic southern Cali tacos, ... More >>

Eat Street: James Cunningham Celebrates Street Food ... Not Here, Of Course

Eat Street host James Cunningham lets food serve as the real star of his show.​Eat Street leads with one of its many trump cards when it starts out each episode with chrome-domed host, James Cunningham, just taking up some space on a city sidewalk, shooting the breeze. Cunningham may have been ... More >>

Food-Truck Porn: An Idea Made for Dallas

​It's a tough job, but food news is food news. The sequel to The Flying Pink Pig, a food truck parody and porn film, will hit the shelves August 30. The movie took an interesting turn after media coverage exploded surrounding allegations that Joe Kim, the owner of the truck featured in the fil ... More >>

DFW Food Truck Festival coming to Sigel's

​ Updated to include more food trucks Jasper Russo called out to Dallas food trucks, and they've answered en masse. As Eater reported yesterday, August 27th will mark the first DFW Food Truck Festival, Russo says, with the Greenville Avenue location of the Sigel's chain playing host to a gro ... More >>

It's 130 Degrees (and Rising) in at Least One of Dallas' Food Trucks

​If you haven't noticed it's hot outside. Highs are expected to top 110 this weekend, according to my Google skills. I've never experienced 110. I have no idea what that feels like. I imagine it sucks, and I imagine it's affecting other people's food choices as well. Eater reports today that ... More >>

Nammi: Trickle at the Truck

You wanted food trucks? Here's one. Where are you?

Tonight: Ssahm BBQ Truck Parks Outside of Sigel's For Wine and Kimchee-Taco Goodness

Photo from www.ssahmbbq.com​Sigel's is getting ready to fire up its Summer Gourmet Food Truck series, which will host gourmet food trucks serving a variety of cuisines paired with Sigel's wines. I spoke today with with Jasper Russo, the director of wine marketing over at Sigel's, about the food tr ... More >>

City Council's Set to Rewrite Ordinances Allowing for Food Trucks, Campaign Signs

From Jack's ChowHound's Facebook page​Tomorrow the city council will discuss why Mary Suhm wants to keep all of Dallas' trash and allowing the public a shot at redrawing the council districts' boundaries. But not before it votes on two hot-button issues: food trucks and campaign signs on public pr ... More >>

That's No Moon: It's a Food Truck

Via EaterYou don't know the power of crust side.​This food truck is quite operational. While food trucks are inching closer and closer--please, hurry!--to being parked in the Arts District in Dallas, the Grillenium Falcon has made its way to Arkansas. The force seems pretty damn strong with ... More >>

Gandolfo's Attempts Franchising Magic Trick with Deli Sandwiches

​A new food truck is en route to Dallas. The mobile food vendor in question, Gandolfo's New York Delicatessen, is part of an ambitious plan by owner Pool's Restaurant Group for large-scale franchising of food trucks, and in the case of Randy Wolken, master franchiser for DFW, a way to build a ... More >>

City Street Grille's Rolled Gold

​This past weekend's food truck fete at Earth Day Dallas had a clear winner in creativity and popularity, the chicken and waffle dish offered by City Street Grille. The new menu item, Rolled Gold, exclusively revealed to City of Ate last week was presented as a waffle pita -- or cone -- if yo ... More >>

Earth Day Is Putting Food Trucks on the Ground

​It was an innocent question, one I assumed the gentleman at Oak Cliff Earth Day wouldn't be able to answer. "Where are the food trucks going to be?" "Along Flora Street," he replied without skipping a beat, the same stretch of the Arts District mobile food vendors were stationed during the A ... More >>

Food Trucks Now a Little Closer to Setting Up Shop in Arts District, Downtown

The Hot Box parked on Flora Street back on October 31​Patrick Michels went to yesterday's City Plan Commission meeting, where food trucks in the Arts District were among the items on the menu. Next stop, city council -- next month, all goes according to plan. A big reason this got rolling was Arts ... More >>

At City Plan Commission: Food Trucks Drive to Council, But Gas Drilling Stays Parked For Now

Robert WilonskyThe Hot Box parked on Flora Street back on October 31​I'd been all ready to settle in for a lengthy City Plan Commission meeting this afternoon, conditioned by months of long waits before commissioners got to talking about the things I'd come for -- old favorites like gas drilling o ... More >>

Heinz Rolls Out the Free Fries and Ketchup, Food Truck Included

You say you want food trucks in Dallas? Well, here you go.​It seems even marketers are getting in on the food-truck fever that has infected every major U.S. city. In yesterday's New York Times, Tanzina Vega wrote an excellent article about corporations jumping on the mobile food vending bandwagon, ... More >>

Tequila Familia Camarena Will Have You Doing the Macarena, Even Without its Taco Truck

​Tequila is more than the Mexican Jägermeister, and Monday night's media tasting event of Tequila Familia Camarena proved that. Six writers and/or bloggers from various local media outlets were invited to partake of the mixing and tasting of four tequila-based cocktails at Hotel ZaZa. The ebullie ... More >>

Not Exactly a Fleet of Food Trucks, but Many Mobile and Pop-Up Vendors To Sell Fare at Closing Day of Art in October

Serious Eats​Arts District executive director Veletta Lill remains true to her word. Dallas' biggest booster for food trucks promised there would be mobile food vendors selling their fare during the Arts in October celebration and especially at the Sunday, October 31 Closing Day of Art in October ... More >>

Green House Truck Nominated
As One of America's Favorite Food Trucks

​Food trucks, or their paucity, in Dallas are hot. The topic has been covered by local food media outlets, including City of Ate. One food truck has done more to highlight residents' desire for mobile food vendors. That food truck, Green House Truck, has been nominated as one of America's favorite ... More >>

Food Network Hops on the Taco Trend

​This morning the Food Network posted a simple and absurd tweet on its Twitter stream (@FoodNetwork): "What taco is tops?" This tweet can be construed as an assumption that the fascination with tacos is a fleeting trend. Furthermore, the update is clearly tied to their new show, The Great Food ... More >>