This meeting is open to all food trucks, even if you aren’t a member of the association. Save DC Food Trucks Meeting for All Food Trucks 6 pm Monday, April 1 Contact che@bbqbusdc.com to attend Attention Food Trucks: Food trucks will become illegal in most of downtown if Mayor Gray’s proposed new regulations […]
Two new trucks are coming this spring/summer to Montgomery County: LA Taco Truck and Tempo Di Pasta! LA Taco is being run by restaurant veterans looking to get back to serving their favorite Southwestern American cuisine (menu is here). Details for Tempo Di Pasta are coming soon.
Below is the Food Truck Association’s response to DCRA’s latest proposed vending regulations. The regulations were supposed to update the books to accommodate modern food trucks, which are being held to old ice cream truck rules. As you can see, the new regulations essentially keep the old ice cream truck rules on the books, while limiting the […]
The Washington City Paper interviewed many food truck operators, the spokesperson for the Mayor (Pedro Ribeiro), and the Restaurant Association in this article posted yesterday and asked how they all felt about the new version of the proposed food truck regulations. The summary is that many of our favorite food trucks are contemplating shutting down, while […]
DC’s Mayor Gray dissed DC’s food trucks twice in the past few days, first by insinuating that food trucks don’t obey the law, and second, by praising a recent crowd funding success by a Union Market business, failing to mention that 3 of DC’s food trucks graduated to become tenants of Union Market: Curbside Cupcakes, DC Empanadas and […]
The Washington City Paper broke the news yesterday that Basil Thyme will soon be retiring their two trucks after almost two years in service. So, be sure to visit one of the trucks over the next couple of weeks for your last meal. They will be missed!!
Bangkok PD Licious is coming to Loudoun County, VA, with their first service in Leesburg on Tuesday (3/19)! Their Thai menu is listed right on the front page of their website. Here is more info + pictures! They will be coming to Fairfax County as soon as the county ends its permitting freeze on food […]
Tim Carman, from the Washington Post, broke news that the Fojol Bros have purchased two old General Motors buses to rehab into stationary, off-street vending machines! The concept of the bustaurant has come to DC. 🙂 Rather than serving from the curbside like food trucks, it sounds like these buses would be parked in private lots […]
Yesterday, DCRA posted the latest (4th) version of proposed food truck regulations. Tim Carman, from the Washington Post, has a summary of this version of the rules which seems to loosen up the sidewalk free-of-obstructions rule, but still kept the requirement of 10ft of sidewalk in front of the truck. Inserted into the rules is […]
With the weather due to warm up, I thought I’d post a quick list and status of all of DC’s gourmet ice cream trucks. So far, Street Cream has been the only one to announce a firm reopening date. But, Scoops2u deserves a special mention as they have been continuing to serve throughout the winter […]
