We’re gearing up for our third Food Truck Friday, and we couldn’t be more excited. If you’re familiar with Food Truck Friday, skip ahead to the section below where we reveal details on the time and location as well as the 17 trucks who have already signed on for this month’s event. For those of you who haven’t been able to make it out to Food Truck Friday just yet, let us give you some of the details behind this exciting event.
A trend that’s been lively on the coasts for a few years now, food trucks entered the dining scene here in St. Louis just a short time ago. Today, an ever-growing number of trucks and wagons take to the streets each day, tweeting out their locations so hungry diners can line up for a meal on the run. St. Louisans can now get just about anything they want from these mobile culinary mavens – from pizza to tacos, cupcakes to crêpes – at a price that’s easy on the pocketbook.
On June 10, nine of the area’s most popular food trucks gathered for Sauce Magazine’s first Food Truck Friday, an event we will be holding monthly throughout the summer and early fall. More than 800 people filled Tower Grove Park for the event, taking advantage of their first opportunity to get a taste of all their favorite food trucks in one place. On July 22, a whopping 15 food trucks filled Tower Grove Park for our second Food Truck Friday, feedings hundreds of hungry St. Louisans. (See photos from the second Food Truck Friday here.) And now, we’re doing it again.
Click here to watch a fun video revealing what Food Truck Friday is all about.
The next Food Truck Friday will be on Friday, August 19 in Tower Grove Park from 5 to 8 p.m. See below for details on which trucks are already slotted for the event, along with details on time and location. See you Friday!
WHAT: Food Truck Friday
WHEN: Friday, August 19, 5 to 8 p.m.
WHERE: Tower Grove Park, 4256 Magnolia Ave., St. Louis, along Southwest Drive (Get map here)
Parking: West End & Gurney Picnic Sites: Enter the Park via Kingshighway and follow Southwest Drive, heading east as it is a one way-street. The picnic sites will be on your left. From the Arsenal entrance at Center Cross Drive: Go around the roundabout and turn left on Northwest Drive (which his also one way), heading west. This will eventually loop into Southwest Drive.
COST: Entrance: free; cash and credit card accepted for food and beverages
WHO’S COMING? Schlafly Follow this truck: @Schlafly Seoul Taco Follow this truck: @SeoulTaco Papa Tom’s Gateway Dog House Follow this truck: @GatewayDogHouse Guerrilla Street Food Follow this truck: @GuerrillaStreet Southwest Diner Follow this truck: @SouthwestDiner Wanderlust Follow this truck: @WanderlustPizza The Sweet Divine Follow this truck: @TheSweetDivine Holy Crêpe Follow this truck: @HolyCrepeSTL Cha Cha Chow Follow this truck: @WheresChaCha Sarah’s Cake Stop Follow this truck: @SarahsCakeStop Falafelwich Wagon Follow this truck: @Falafelwich Shell’s Coastal Cuisine Follow this truck: @ShellsCoastal Street Life Mobile Food Follow this truck: @StreetLifeFood Mangia Mobile Follow this truck: @MangiaMobile Pi On the Spot Follow this truck: @PiTruckSTL Barnyard Kitcjen Follow this truck: @bkitcjen Speedway Eatery Follow this truck: @SpeedwayEatery This is a Sauce Presentation.
This article appears in Aug 1-31, 2011.