CapMac is ready to announce their expansion to include a new PM delivery service available only to residents in Silver Spring – specifically area code 20910!

The hours of operation are Tues-Sun 5pm-10pm, and the menu is shown below with the items they’ll be offering. The new info (phone number, delivery menu) has been updated on their Facebook page.

The Food Truck Fiesta Android app was definitely due for an update, and here it is!  I added in a feature that I’ve been wanting for a long time: Radar.

It doesn’t turn your driod phone into an active radar, so no worries about draining your batteries. 🙂  But, the new radar view does allow you to locate food trucks around you, as if your phone were a radar, and is easier than trying to figure out where you are on a map.  Just make sure you have a GPS lock and all of the food truck icons will appear.  Hold your phone in front of you and turn left or right and see the icons rotate; the icons that are in front of the center arrow are the ones you are walking towards.  The truck icons that are closer to the center arrow are closer to you (under a 5 minute walk) and the ones that are closer to the outside of the compass circle are a 10 or 15 minute walk.  The icons that line the outer border of the compass are greater than a 15 minute walk away.

In addition to the radar view, you now have a list view.  And something that you won’t appreciate until the 2nd time you open the app is that I’ve improved the performance of the app so that it will download less data each time.  The cell data networks seem to slow way down during lunch time, right when most FTF app fans are firing up the app!  I’m excited to hear feedback on how the app performs with these new enhancements.

I still have a few more enhancements coming in the next version 2.1, which should come out faster than this last update: 1) News tab, 2) linking in menus and FTF reviews.

As always, thank you all for your support with the development of the app! 🙂  Here is a direct link to the app, and the upgrade is free for existing app users!

.. and some screenshots:

A new truck is launching in Montgomery County next week, named Brown Bag.  The name may be familiar to you because this truck is part of the small chain of Brown Bag restaurants located in DC, Arlington and MD.  The menu consists of panini’s, soups, and salads.  More info + links can be found on their page!

Congrats to Seoul Food, who will be realizing the dream of many food truck operators: opening a brick and mortar restaurant!  The Washingtonian has some more details.  The restaurant will be located at 11310 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, MD.

I just received a tip that Rocklands BBQ, a small DC-area BBQ chain, is launching a food truck today at Farragut Square (17th & I St NW)!  More info to come..

Smokin’ on the Bayou is a new food truck serving Louisiana cuisine in Montgomery County!  They are in downtown Silver Spring today.  Full menu details are located here. 🙂

Mr Miyagi’s Teriyaki started serving earlier this month and is still settling into regular daily service.  The menu is simple and to the point, located here.  A great thing about Mr Miyagi’s is that they seem to be serving the late night crowds on U St, in addition to lunch time!

Tim Carman, from the Washington Post, has all of the details about food trucks serving during the inauguration.  Some highlights from the list are:

• Capital Chicken & Waffles will be making their debut during the inauguration.  Their truck build-out was just completed days ago!
• One truck from NYC made the list, named Make My Cake.  They will be serving in the National’s Ballpark area.
• Bada Bing won the lottery, but was denied a spot, likely due to its truck length and features.  Bada Bing is licensed in Arlington, but DC has different truck requirements which prevent the Bing from serving in DC (Inauguration trucks have to pass DC inspections).  Unfortunate. 🙁
• Crepes Parfait just let me know that they will also be serving! (UPDATE)

As for where to find your favorite DC food truck serving, I am just going to rely on real-time reports on the day of.  Trying to figure out the vending locations from the preliminary DCRA map (pdf) is pretty difficult and it seems to be missing the NW part of Penn Ave.

The full list of confirmed trucks, as per the Washington Post article mentioned above are: Goodies Frozen Custard, Borinquen Lunch Box, Big Cheese, Doug the Food Dude, Fojol Bros, Curbside Cupcakes, Cirque Cuisine, Carnivore BBQ, Capital Chicken & Waffles, Surfside, Sweetbites, Make My Cake, Pepe, and Crepes Parfait.

After their first service on Jan 3rd, followed by a few days off, Kushi-Moto sushi truck seems to have now settled into regular daily service.  They are at Union Station today (1/10/2013). 🙂  Much thanks to Matt for sending in photos of the Kushi-Moto truck’s menu!

Truck photo, courtesy of Kushi-Moto’s Twitter page

The Food Truck Association of Metropolitan Washington (AKA DC Food Truck Association) is now hiring for their first Executive Director position!  From the job listing:

The Food Truck Association of Metropolitan Washington is seeking to hire its first paid Executive Director. The Executive Director will be responsible for the leadership and day-to-day operations of the association’s activities, which include developing and executing government relations strategies to achieve and sustain a fair regulatory environment in the District of Columbia and surrounding communities, as well as leading the planning and implementation of association events, such as the Curbside Cookoff food truck festivals.

The full listing and instructions on how to apply can be found in the PDF document listed on their website.