2nd Annual Jax Truckies Food Truck Championship

[fieldafm]

Food truck championship is this Saturday at the corner of Main and Adams from 6-10pm. 

In a partnership with The Elbow, we are also giving away BOGO drink tickets to select Elbow establishments during the event so you can keep the party going all night. 

Get up to get down(town)!

[fieldafm]

Bumping up for this Saturday.

[marksjax]

Mark's and Dive Bar are in.
Looking forward to it! 

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

Not looking to sway any votes out there, but OTF FTW X2... just sayin'....   

[fieldafm]

Lineup (truck count will increase shortly) announced:

http://jacksonville.com/opinion/blog/423471/gary-mills/2013-06-11/lineup-announced-saturdays-food-truck-championship

[CityLife]

Already an impressive lineup...and there's more? I know I'll be eating a light lunch on Saturday.

[smeeeth]

I'm surprised to not have seen a review or any comments on how this event went this weekend.  I was unable to attend, but was certainly curious to see how it was.

[Tacachale]

^It was off the hook. The food and the crowd were phenomenal. The only complaints I heard were that it was too successful; the lines were long to get those delicious eats. Just goes to show that there's an obvious demand for food trucks and downtown events that we're not tapping to the full potential.

[CityLife]

Agreed Tacachale. I was expecting a crowd, but nothing like that. Got there about 30-45 minutes after it started and lines were already out of control. So the wife and I tried to go to Indochine, it was packed. BG was packed. Chomp Chomp was packed. Pho was packed. So we went to MacCool's as a last resort (not that its bad or anything).

The demand is there AND the event clearly helped out the other downtown establishments. I'd love to see a night time Truckies event at least once a month DT. Still think that DVI or someone at the city should close down Bay Street and just have a giant block party/night market with food trucks, vendors, live music, etc.

[thelakelander]

I'm surprised to not have seen a review or any comments on how this event went this weekend.  I was unable to attend, but was certainly curious to see how it was.

I have a photo thread of the event set up to run later tonight and through tomorrow on the front page. Great crowd. I got there around 6:15pm and the lines were way longer than I was willing to wait, so I ended up getting a redbox movie and cooking at home. Nevertheless, what stood out the most to me was the amount of foot traffic it generated on surrounding streets and the adjacent pocket park.  Why we don't start allowing food trucks to assemble around Hemming Plaza makes no sense to me.  If you want people in the park for an affordable price, food trucks are a great easy to implement programming solution.

[Noone]

Was out of town but glad to hear it was a success. Looking forward to the photo thread. Congratulations Mike.

 How about a Food Truck parade. San Marco at 10am Hemming Plaza at 6pm.
Hemming Plaza at 10pm Springfield at 6pm
Hemming Plaza the nucleus.

Love the spontaneous organic cluster of infill energy that creates pedestrian foot traffic for additional businesses.

[JayBird]

I was there and loved it! Ate out of Pho's and Chomp Chomps trucks. Not only was the food great, but a great mix of people who were all interacting in ways that you don't even see in the club scene downtown.  So what I want to know, why doesn't DVI invite all these trucks and give them space at ArtWalk?  I hadn't been in about three months and just went recently and was surprised by how much the crowds have died down from it.

[tufsu1]

I was there and loved it! Ate out of Pho's and Chomp Chomps trucks.

huh?  don't think those truck were there

and, btw, there are food trucks at ArtWalk..usually 2 or 3

[ben says]

Pho and CC have food trucks now?

[tufsu1]

Pho and CC have food trucks now?

they do not