This just in: The Big Cheese is working on opening a brick and mortar shop in the Dupont Circle area!

Join the DMV’s original traveling food truck festival — Curbside Cookoff! Featuring nearly 20 of your favorite food trucks, twenty-dollar all-you-can-drink wristbands, face painting for the kids and music! 200 K Street SE, Washington, DC. Visit their website for more info. Here is the list of trucks serving the event.

The next Truckeroo will be held on Friday, July 19 from 11am – 11pm (lunch, happy hour and dinner).  24 trucks will be serving the venue (Fairgrounds DC)!

The event is located next to the Navy Yard/Ballpark metro entrance at 1299 Half Street Southeast, Washington, DC 20003.  There is FREE admission & ample covered and uncovered seating provided.

The truck line-up for July 19:

• Bada Bing
• BBQ Bus
• Bon Mi
• Cajunators
• Carmen’s Italian Ice
• Curbside Cupcakes
• DC Empanadas
• DC Slices
• Feelin Crabby
• Goodies Frozen Custard
• Halal Grill
• Mojo
• Neat Meat
• Orange Cow
• Pleasant Pops
• Red Hook Lobster Pound -DC
• Sinplicity Ice Cream
• Something Stuffed Mighty Dog and Acai
• Surfside
• TaKorean
• Tapas
• That Cheesecake Truck
• Doug the Food Dude
• Randy Radish (vegan)

The Crab Cab started serving on Monday in the District!  The menu mostly consists of crab cake items, rounded out by a couple of salad options.  Here is their page with full menu details!  Thanks to Robert for the tip & pics!

This Saturday (July 13), noon to 9pm, join the DMV’s original traveling food truck festival — Curbside Cookoff! Featuring nearly 20 of your favorite food trucks, twenty-dollar all-you-can-drink wristbands, face painting for the kids and music! 200 K Street SE, Washington, DC. Visit their website for more info. Here is the list of trucks serving the event.

Thanks to DC Food Truck Photographer for reporting that all of the trucks on the east side of Farragut Square were ticketed this morning for parking too close to each other (within 3 feet of each other, measured from bumper-to-bumper).  Apparently, a meter attendant had a tape measure and if two trucks were parked within 3 feet of each other, they received tickets.  Bizarre!  One has to wonder if this an actual rule, or if DPW is making stuff up?

The first Curbside Cookoff of 2013 will be held this Saturday (July 13) from noon-7pm 9pm (hours extended!) at at 200 K Street SE!  Like Truckeroo, Curbside Cookoff is a gathering of many top DC food trucks, paired with music, games (including children’s area) and adult beverages.  Curbside Cookoff is organized by the Food Truck Association of Metropolitan Washington members and also tends to be more family and conveniently held on Saturdays.

A suggested donation of $1 will be collected for Miriam’s Kitchen, which works to end chronic homelessness in DC.  Here is the list of trucks serving at July 13th Curbside Cookoff:

• Captain Cookie and the Milkman
• Goodies Frozen Custard
• That Cheesecake Truck
• Borinquen Lunch Box
• Red Hook Lobster Pound -DC
• Feelin’ Crabby
• Carolina Q
• Crepe Love Truck
• CapMac
• DC Ballers
• Halal Grill / Halal Gyro Plus
• Lemongrass Truck
• Tasty Kabob / Tasty Fried
• Sang on Wheels
• Rito Loco
• Goodes Mobile Kitchen
• BonMi
• Fire and Rice

The full schedule for this year is as follows:

• July 13 – Capitol Riverfront, 200 K Street SE (Navy Yard Metro)
• July 27 – St. Elizabeth’s East, 1100 Alabama Avenue SE (Congress Heights Metro)
• Aug. 24 – Congressional Cemetery, 1801 E Street SE (Potomac Avenue Metro)
• Sep. 28 – Wheaton, MD, Reedie Drive and Triangle Lane (Wheaton Metro)
• Oct. 26 – St. Elizabeth’s East, 1100 Alabama Avenue SE (Congress Heights Metro)

Something fun to check out tomorrow (7/6):  Mac’s Donuts is hosting their First Annual Donut Eating Contest on Saturday July 6th at the Courthouse Farmers Market in Arlington at 11am.  The first person to eat 50 Apple Cider Mini Donuts wins a $100 gift certificate to Mac’s Donuts for you guessed it MORE DONUTS.

I’ve received a few emails from fans wondering if, and where, DC food trucks will be serving on the 4th of July.  I dug into the FTF database to see what happened in 2012: while most food trucks took the day off, about a dozen trucks served in the SW Waterfront, L’Enfant Plaza and at 14th & Constitution as well as Crystal City and various private parties in MD & VA.

So, if you are hinging your plans on a DC food truck lunch for the 4th, your best bet would be to head to L’Enfant Plaza or the Waterfront.  El Fuego has already announced that they will be serving at L’Enfant tomorrow. 🙂

Have a great holiday!

Amorini Panini is launching their 2nd truck today(7/1)! They will be at State Dept and L’Enfant.  The menu is being expanded to include breakfast items and they will also be honoring catering requests in the future.