TONIGHT: The Food Truck Bazaar Makes a Stop in Deland!

If you heard WMFE talk about it on the radio Friday, then you know: tonight The Food Truck Bazaar's itinerary talkes it to Deland's Earl Brown Park (751 S. Alabama Ave.) 6-9pm with top Central Florida trucks. Its a night for the community to come together over dinner, relax outside and enjoy a Sunday night get-together before the work week starts. To learn more about The Food Truck Bazaar: About, Twitter, Facebook. 


The Trucks: 
(all subject to change without notice) Twisted Cuban, Cafe Rouge, Firehouse BBQ, Saigon Sizzle, The Flattery, Beard Poppa, Tastebuds, The Crepe Company, Fork in the Road, Treehouse, The Batter Bowl, Yum Yum, Big Wheel Provisions, Monsta Lobsta

What to Do: 

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

2. There will be 10-25 trucks (except in Longwood which has five).
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. At certain locations we can host non-food businesses who wish to reach our audience. Become a Sponsor. 

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.