The Frites ‘n’ Meats truck is back on the street after suffering a terrible fire and will be at Saturday’s Parked! mobile food extravaganza at the South Street Seaport (Photo by twi-ny/mdr)
South Street Seaport
Saturday, August 20, free, 10:00 am – 9:00 pm
www.meanredproductions.com
Now in its fifth year, Parked!, an annual convergence of New York food trucks presented by Mean Red Productions, pulls into the South Street Seaport on Saturday after previous stops at BKLYN Yard and on Governors Island. From 10:00 am to 9:00 pm, thirty of the city’s finest gourmet mobile eateries will be offering a potpourri of international edible excellence, along with live music by Anais Mitchell, Naomi Shelton and the Gospel Queens, Two Man Gentlemen Band, and Mikey Palms, DJs, children’s activities (face painting, a temporary playground), cooking demonstrations, and more. If you’re worried about long lines, you can buy a $50 VIP pass that allows you access to an express lane, samples from any ten trucks, and one free drink, but it’s only good between 5:00 and 7:00, which makes no sense to us, but that’s the deal. (If they sell all five hundred passes, won’t that guarantee that there will be lines on the express lanes as well during that two-hour period?) Anyway, among the participating mobile vendors are main course possibilities Big D’s Grub, Frites ‘n’ Meats (back on the street after a terrible fire), Feed Your Hole, Gorilla Cheese, Kimchi Taco, La Cense Burger, Desi, Red Hook Lobster Pound, Schnitzel and Things, Mexicue, Taime Falafel, and Valducci’s Pizza, such dessert choices as CoolHaus Ice Cream, the Cinnamon Snail, Van Leeuwen Ice Cream, Wafels & Dinges, the Cupcake Crew, and the Treats Truck, and such drink options as JoyRide, Kelvin Natural Slush Co., Green Pirate Juice, and Wooly’s Ice. In addition to their regular menus, the trucks will be selling specially selected items at five and eight dollars each. Bon appétit!