It's been a long time since I last posted, but wanted to start posting again.

Tim and I just got back from the Worcester Food Truck Festival at Elm Park. They actually closed down Park Avenue (a main thoroughfare through Worcester) for this event, and detoured traffic around the park.

We came with 20 tickets, and bought 10 more, and used all 30 of them.  Each truck had several items, and each item was posted with how many tickets you needed to purchase.   The trucks were from all around New England, and there was a lot of variety!  Seafood, bar-b-cue, Thai food, gourmet grilled cheese, ice cream, cookies, etc.  The trucks vary from location to location, based on who is available for each event.  They have many events in the New England area throughout the summer time.

For next year (and we'll DEFINITELY be going back next year), we'll wait and pay with cash on site, as I had a small service fee because I ordered things in advance online.  Will just wait until the show and pay cash on site.  Our 30 tickets cost about $40.

We arrived shortly after the event started, shortly after 11am.  There were lots of people, but things were not too crowded except around the last two trucks that arrived (they were late, and due to inspections and paperwork, didn't get up and running until around noon or so).

We brought our chairs, a small folding table (camp sized table), and a cooler with empty Tupperware in it (along with our own water).  Tim and I each got and tried several things, but we didn't eat all of any of them (except one half hot dog).  We each had a couple of bites of each item, then put the rest into our Tupperware, so we could continue to sample lots of different things.  Plus we end up with leftovers for lunches/dinners for the next week!  Neither he or I can eat much at one time, so this was a great way for us to sample lots of different things, not overeat, and again, have leftovers for the week!

What did we eat? 

I got a nice full sized lobster roll (most expensive item we got at 8 tickets), Tim got a pastrami sandwich (5 tickets) and a cup of clam chowder (3 tickets), then we shared a beef brisket sandwich (5 tickets, very good), a pulled pork taco (4 tickets, pretty good), and then we got 1/2 a hot dog (3 tickets?  We finished this item).  After buying food, we had two tickets left, and got 3 apple cider donut holes (hot and fresh, and DELICIOUS!).

I really recommend attending this festival if you have one in your area.  It was great to sit in our chairs in the shade, eat lots of different types of food, watch all of the families (lots of kids and dogs attended), and just enjoy the afternoon!

There are more of these events coming up in Brighton, Falmouth, Lowell, East Boston, Hingham, Framingham and Newport.  I highly recommend these events, and suggest that you try to attend on in your area!!