The UK street food market is really starting to flourish (albeit slowly in Cambridge with my one (only) favourite food truck flying the flag for quick, good value but super tasty food. The USA has been enjoying amazing street food for a long long time. Each truck has its own food, its own style and the quality of the food just seems to get better and better. Running a street food truck offers a great opportunity to own a business that would otherwise be out of reach. Not only that, but for tourists and travellers, the food truck scene offers brilliant value and the food is usually made from fresh ingredients, cooked to order. It’s a far better alternative to the chain restaurants we’re all so familiar with.
We’ve rounded up our favourite street food sites that have the low down on what’s hot when you’re hungry!
We love New York Street Food. This massive site covers all the boroughs of New York and also blogs about other cities too. It has loads of pictures, you can read articles by location or by food type and for New York it has a map so you can locate a street food truck near to wherever you are.
Portland is known for its plethora of street food carts & Food Carts Portland tells you where to find them (as well as check the latest in what to eat.) The site is really easy to navigate, has photos, maps, sample menus & prices. A nice touch are the stories of the food truck owners which gives it a personal edge. Search by cuisine or location or book a street food tour!
Not so much a blog, more a directory. Roaming Hunger tracks street food vendors via tweets & websites in real time so they cover a much bigger geography than the blogs. You can search by city and they have maps, some information on the vendors & some photos.
It’s surely no surprise that San Francisco has long had a vibrant street food scene…it even has its own festival celebrating all things street food! http://www.sfstreetfoodfest.com/
Chicago’s street food scene is small (having been restricted by laws which actually prevented cooking on a street food truck) but is at last growing. You can follow the campaign to revolutionise street food in Chicago at Chicago Food Carts and you can get the latest on truck locations on Twitter https://twitter.com/ChicagoMag/chicago-food-trucks