On June 3, 2011, the DC Food Trucks Association, in conjunction with Das Bullpen, Capitol Riverfront BID, Washington City Paper and Food Truck Fiesta, held a 17 food truck festival at Das Bullpen in Southeast Washington, DC next to the Navy Yard metro station and National’s ballpark. The event ran from 11am – 9pm and featured bands, picnic tables, cornhole (bean bag toss) games along with a selection of adult beverages. The lunch time crowd was strong, but it was the late evening crowd that eclipsed those earlier attendance numbers. The event is expected to be held monthly during the summer and fall seasons. Check out the photos below!
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I attended Truckeroo last Friday and was generally impressed. It was nice to have all the trucks in one place by my work! SE usually doesn’t get much love.
The only complaint I have was that when we showed up, they started checking ID’s (at 11am). No where on the information/website did it mention ID’s and several of my coworkers were caught unaware of this requirement. Luckily we told the guy we were just getting food (cause it was lunch) and he let us in. I think that is something that needs to be better advertised as several parents and children were also questioned before going in.
We arrived around 3 p.m. and too many places were out of food or closed until 5 or 5:30. I was really bummed.
PANDORAM: I think almost all of the trucks sold out during lunch and had to go restock for dinner. I guess there is only so much food one can store on a truck! 🙂