Happy Friday, food truck followers! It's a gorgeous day, so plan a picnic lunch with eats from your favorite vendors. A few trucks are off the road today because to attend the food truck hearing. You can read all about the controversy in our earlier story.
Happy Thursday, food truck followers! It's almost the weekend, so push through with sweet specials like carrot cake parfait with Greek yogurt and toasted coconut from Seoul Food, banana-chocolate bread pudding aboard Willie’s Po Boy, and strawberry and lemon chiffon ice cream at Captain Cookie.
Happy hump day, food truck followers! Some of your favorite trucks are serving at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library's Books and Bites event today, including BBQ Bus and Big Cheese. It's not raining for once, so get outside!
Happy Tuesday, food truck followers! It's a drizzly day, but the trucks are back and open in Farragut after yesterday's protest. Read all about the food truck fight in our earlier post.
Farragut lunch-goers learned what life would be like without their favorite four-wheeled restaurants Monday. Photograph by Anna Spiegel.
Seventeen food trucks parked around Farragut Square on Monday, but no tacos or cupcakes passed through their service windows, which remained stubbornly shut throughout the midday-meal hours. Members of the Food Truck Association staged the protest, billed as A Day Without a Food Truck, in opposition to pending regulations and to give customers an idea of the dining landscape—or lack thereof—that might result if said laws were passed.
The name plays on the satirical indie movie A Day Without a Mexican, which imagines life in California if all the Mexicans disappeared in a magical pink fog (spoiler alert: hell breaks lose). While the loss of food trucks may not result in societal breakdown, vendors see the most recent set of regulations proposed by mayor Vincent Gray to be as devastating as the film’s corrosive cloud. Truck owners and their supporters passed out informational packages on the streets to passersby, highlighting particularly harmful restrictions such as banning food trucks from areas with less than ten feet of open sidewalk—of which, they argue, there are few—and forcing them into a lottery for a limited number of assigned spaces. If passed, many vendors believe these new limits will effectively kill the food-truck industry in the District.
Detractors say food trucks reap economic benefits from the city without giving back, and hold an advantage over their brick-and-mortar brethren because they’re virtually free from taxes; an idea that the association actively disputes, citing sales taxes, vehicle taxes, payroll taxes, and taxes associated with the required brick-and-mortar commissary kitchens. The message echoed by many vendors is that their opponents’ arguments, like those from the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington are designed to force out the trucks.
Update: Per Food Truck Fiesta, the Farragut trucks are protesting proposed regulations by not serving any food today.
Happy Monday, food truck followers! Forget the gloomy weather and perk up your day with specials such as quinoa salad and empanadas from Peruvian Brothers, shredded barbecue beef at Chef on Wheels, and chicken tacos with fresh guacamole aboard District Taco.
Happy Friday, food truck followers! The weather is perfect, so get out there in the sunshine, bring a blanket to the park, and support your favorite food trucks!
Happy Thursday, food truck followers! It's another beautiful day, so get out under the blue skies for specials such as turkey meatloaf and mac and cheese from Linda's Luncheonette, Mexican rib-eye tacos at Pho Wheels, and caprese grilled cheese on multigrain aboard Big Cheese.
Happy May Day, food truck followers! It's a gorgeous day, so get out in the sunshine for spring-y specials like smoked salmon and asparagus quiche from Cirque Cuisine, a new lamb kebab platter at Village Cafe Express, and a crab bowl aboard Go Fish.
Happy Tuesday, food truck followers! Fight off gloomy weather with satisfying specials such as brisket sandwiches and jalapeño-cheddar mac from Porc Mobile, veggie-kimchee chili dogs aboard Seoul Food, and bourbon mint julep cupcakes at Sweetbites Truck.
