Tag: Red Hook

"The startup cost for a truck is typically well below that of a bricks-and-mortar restaurant."

Festival organizers have invited the Red Hook Lobster Truck, Curbside Cupcakes, Fojol Brothers, District Taco, Tasty Kabob, Eat Wonky, DC Slices, CapMac and Sidewalk Sweetsations.

The competitors are the Red Hook Lobster Pound and Solar Crepes, both of which fought hard to make it to the finals.

In addition to our recent posts about new trucks from Gorilla Cheese NYC, Crisp Falafel, Red Hook Lobster Pound and Milk Truck, not to mention 2 free promotional food trucks, check out the info below.

This spring, a new wave of mobile eateries are rolling out, offering everything from kebabs and burgers to cupcakes and Chinese steamed buns.

Lobster is upscale. Hot dog buns are not. Crack the former, toast and butter the latter, maybe mix in a bit of celery and mayonnaise, and you have the ultimate in shabby-chic cuisine: the lobster roll.

Alexander said “But they’re making a sizable amount of income. … We want things to be fair” between the trucks and existing, brick-and-mortar restaurants.

The mobile food trend continues to blossom in Washington, with a slew of new food trucks hitting the street. Here are three available for private events.

With temperatures dipping below freezing, the hungry masses who assembled on Franklin Square on Monday enjoyed a rare opportunity to sample the menus of 12 different food trucks -- assuming, that is, their numb tongues allowed them to taste anything at all.

Curbside Cupcakes co-owner Kristi Whitfield and several of her fellow food truckers were mingling after one of their regular Monday meetings (you know, those gatherings where the mobile foodies fret and commiserate and devise strategies to counter those who would put them out of business).