On June 21st, Captain Cookie launched Cookie 2, their second truck! They also look to be hiring additional staff for that 2nd truck. NOTE: the second truck is yellow!
Thanks to DCFüd for the original tip that Maryland Public Television (MPT, Channel 22) is airing a documentary tonight (6/26) @ 9pm entitled Capital Food Fight. “The new documentary explores how D.C.’s street food battle was fought and won.” The teaser is located here. Even though the teaser contains a lot of older footage, the maker of the […]
DC’s Curbside Cookoff is back! Organized by the DC Maryland Virginia Food Truck Association (DMVFTA), Curbside Cookoff is a monthly food truck festival held on Saturdays. The first one of 2013 is on July 13 from noon-7pm @ Capitol Riverfront, 200 K Street SE (Navy Yard Metro). The press release: July 13 Curbside Cookoff to […]
Hi DC food truck fans! Last night, I submitted version 3.1 of the FTF app to the iTunes store to fix a couple of bugs. The first bug affected all iOS 5.x users that caused the app to crash upon launch – I won’t make that mistake again! 🙁 The second bug was very rarely […]
Apparently, the Great Food Truck Race TV show is in Farragut today. I’m not really clued into what’s going on as no PR people have gotten in touch, but they also had an event in Arlington last night and one in Silver Spring tomorrow (edit: whichever tweet I saw about this seems to have been deleted). […]
I’m happy to announce a new version of the Food Truck Fiesta iOS (iPhone & iPad) app! It will look familiar to users of version 2.2, but will be massively faster and the screens are a bit more polished. I also added a new favorites feature where you can mark specific trucks as your favorite […]
Urban Bumpkin BBQ is planning on opening in Arlington soon, pending inspections. They will be serving BBQ fusion dishes! More info + a full menu is available on their page.
DCist has a great recap of this morning’s hearing where DC food truck regulations were approved and sent to the Mayor’s desk for his signature. Read the DCist article for more details, but my summary of the outcome (after watching the hearing online): Vending zones have been established in most of the popular DC food […]
This morning (6/18), the DC Council Votes on New Food Truck Regulations! The food truck association requests your help in amending the current version of the regs (see message below). The meeting begins at 11 am, and food truck regulations — “Vending Regulation Second Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2013” — is approximately in the middle of […]
Fairfax county, like many other local governments across the nation, is still grappling with regulations for the new wave of gourmet food trucks. While the county and trucks continue the debate on which portions of streets are considered county-owned or privately-owned, the Fairfax County Park Authority has announced a June 21 application deadline to serve […]
