The Food Truck Bazaar in Mount Dora July 26

The Food Truck Bazaar (About, Twitter, Facebook) has added the city of Mount Dora to its itinerary and will be making its very first stop there on Thursday July 26, 2012, 5:30-8:30pm, near the corner of 4th & Alexander in downtown Mount Dora.  Its a night for the community to come together, have dinner, relax in the outdoors and enjoy a Thursday night get-together. 


The Trucks: 

(ALL SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE) Big Wheel, Cafe Rouge,The Crepe Company, 5Gastronomy, Fork in the Road, SwedeDish, BemBom, Twisted Cuban, Saigon Sizzle, Korean BBQ Taco Box, Monsta Lobsta, Firehouse BBQ, Pop Craft Artisan Popsicles, Yum Yum Cupcake Truck

What to Do: 

1. Think tailgating: bring your own chairs + tables + tents 

2. There will be 14 trucks 
3. $6-$10 per meal.
3. Expect long lines. 

4. Some trucks will run out of food. 

5. Expect loud generators on most trucks.

6. Most trucks take credit cards. 

About:

The Food Truck Bazaar (About, Twitter, Facebook) is the original travelling community dinner event in Central Florida that started in March 2011 and has put on over 50 events and counting. The focus of the event is bringing a town together over dinner. Since The Food Truck Bazaar only stops in towns for three hours a month, it avoids competetion with local restaurants and still is a family friendly popular addition to the town's cutural calendar. It also brings the Orlando food truck scene (Orlando Food Truck Guide) to them so they don't have to travel to Orlando and hunt for trucks. Each stop averages around 1,000 attendees. 

Awards:
2012: Edible Orlando Magazine: Best Local Food Event (2nd)
2012: Orlando Business Journal: "40 Under 40" award for Mark Baratelli (Email, About)

History

Mark Baratelli has been a proponent of food trucks dating back to 2009 when he started hosting food truck meetups called Taco Truck Taste Tests. He'd ask readers of TheDailyCity.com to meet up at trucks all over the city, one truck at a time, and try the food. In doing so, he got his readers to explore new parts of the city, support small businesses and raise awareness of our city's food trucks scene at the time. That same year e applied the idea of mobile vending to art and created TheDailyCity.com Mobile Art Show. On March 29, 2011, he combined the idea of the Hells Kitchen gourmet food truck bazaar idea he wrote about in April 2010, combined it with what was happening in Miami (as told to him by Red Eye BBQ) and did the very first iteration of The Food Truck Bazaar. An estimated 4,000 people showed up and its been going ever since in cities and towns across Central Florida.