ORLANDO, Fla. – Friday is National Food Truck Day, encouraging foodies to get out there and support our local mobile eateries.
It can be pricey, sure. It could be blustery outside, that’s fine. It can mean having to eat a Canadian-Hawaiian fusion poutine pineapple burger while standing upright in a parking lot, we know this. But street food is street food and its charms keep bringing us back for more.
For the holiday, food truck networking agency Roaming Hunger has taken a lead of sorts by establishing FoodTruckDay.org, with links you can follow to find trucks registered with them in your area. Orlando-area food trucks are listed for example, but it’s worth noting that Roaming Hunger serves mostly as a catering middleman; to find food trucks near you, it’s worth visiting a StreetFoodFinder website such as OrlFoodTrucks.com, which does its best to provide an updated map of individual trucks.
There are also several food truck events happening Friday, so you’re still in luck if you’re more of a social food truck customer.
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The “Ivanhoe Village Parking Lot Party” at Ivanhoe Park Brewing Company starts at 6:30 p.m. while Food Trucks Heaven says it’ll set up at Main Gate Flea Market — 5403 W. Irlo Bronson Memorial Highway in Kissimmee — for a National Food Truck Day celebration that lasts until 11:30 p.m.
World Food Trucks, right up the road at 5811 W. Irlo Bronson Memorial Highway, is open each day and allows its dozens of food trucks to set their own hours. Florida Foodie visited World Food Trucks in 2022, getting a taste of what president and CEO Nadeem Battla described as “a little mini United Nations” of vendors to choose from.
“We’ve got Mexican, we’ve got Venezuelan, we have Arab (...) I love the fact that we have countries from all over the world represented here,” Battla said. “The same way that people helped my parents to grow, now I get to help that next generation of immigrants to grow and create their American dream story.”
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