Eat St’s North American Food Cart Contest

The food cart phenomenon has begun!  What started off as simple fry trucks has boomed into a culinary lust affair with gourmet soul satisfying food carts causing hour long pedestrian line ups.  Food truck nights are starting to pop up creating a new social scene.  In LA, for example, food trucks are a featured part of Melrose Night, where trendy shops stay open late the first Thursday of every month.  We admittedly have become a part of this lust affair, ever since we were first invited to the launch party of Eat St, 8 faithful months ago, when they took Emme Rogers and I down the culinary rabbit hole and turned us into obsessed grilled cheese cart chasers (think a dog and his bone – that’s how we are about the elusive grilled cheese truck). Eat St, for those of you not already similarly obsessed, takes you on a visual sensory journey as they highlight the stories, chefs, food and fans of food carts throughout Canada and the USA, creating more than a few cravings.  To satiate those cravings, they’ve evily designed a mobile app (iphone / android) to make it easier to expand the waistline.  The only saving grace?  We have to get to that food cart, so we do our best to dance our way there, giving the hips a good warm up and warm down.

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Thanks to the team at Eat St, we were just looped in on their new contest for food cart owners to land a chance to be filmed on a segment of the show.  If you own a food cart, or are a regular at one you would like to see win, film a video that showcases the best features and submit it by Nov. 24th.  Think of what fans would like to see, because they are the ones who will vote for you!

The voting starts Nov. 24th and runs through Dec. 15th. Some of the early submissions have already been posted and it makes us want to travel around more to find all these tasty trucks.  There’s a Rockn’ Roll light up truck that Emme would like to party at, a BBQ truck that has me drooling (as you know, I’m all about the sauce), and a hot dog with a story begging to be told.

To throw your food truck into the mix visit the Eat St Contest Site, gather all the details and get’er done!