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Street Food Chic

MAY 22, 2009

Specialty treats join classic street vendors as the meals-on-wheels craze gains steam.

The clamor for street vendor cart food rose to a roar among foodies when the nosh brigade discovered the sublime handful of vendor carts at the Red Hook Ball Fields. The annual Vendy awards crown the best of the lunch-cart bunch, with favorites–like last year's Vendy winner Calexico–taking spots on New Yorkers' top nosh lists. All of this attention has put vendor victuals on the city's culinary map, and a new crop of food-cart favorites has emerged. Artisan-crafted, lovingly-served specialties featuring fresh ingredients, variety and creativity are rolling onto the city's streets. The Treats Truck serves up batches of brownies, cookies and other crave-worthy sweets, as does the Dessert Truck. For dumpling cravings, track down the Cravings Truck or Rickshaw Dumplings. The Le Gamin truck rolls out crepes and other bite-sized Euro-fare, Waffles and Dinges may make you realize how much we actually needed a waffle truck, and the Cupcake Stop will need no explanation when it hits the streets in June. Many vendors are on Twitter (list via Serious Eats), so you can actually plan to put yourself in temptation's path.

This weekend: On Saturday, May 23, from noon to 7pm, Parked! The Best Food Trucks in NYC rolls into the BKLYN Yard on the Gowanus Canal to bring you a sampling of some city's better food-cart fare.

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