Westport Food Truck Festival

I love it when there’s a lot of KC foodie events going on! This past weekend was no exception. Saturday was our VegKC meetup, and Friday …

Westport Food Truck Festival

This past weekend was the first annual Westport Food Truck Festival, as you might remember from last week’s Share the Love & Coming up in KC post.

So here’s a tale of our Food Truck Festival festivities amidst photos!

Our plan was to go on Friday about 6 but we ended up no getting there until about 8:30.

Our favorite KC food truck, Good You, was selling a Vegan Sweet Potato & Red Bean Burrito with Chocolate Mole Sauce which I was so looking forward to.  But by the time we got there, they had sold out.  At least that means they were nice and busy!

Some more pictures from the event:

This festival seemed to have a really good turnout, which is great. We even had to wait a few minutes to get in because the space was at capacity when we arrived.

All that being said, I think this festival is a great idea, and I’m glad its first year was successful.

I’m always on board with all things Kansas City food, and I think this event really showcased all the awesome food trucks Kansas City has to offer!

What are your favorite food truck eats??

Coming up in KC & Share the Love; 7/8/11

Time for another wonderful summer weekend!

{Coming Up in KC}

• Westport Food Truck Festival: This weekend in food trucks we have The First Annual Westport Food Truck Festival. Put on by The Pitch and Boulevard, this event will be located at The Backyard at The Beaumont (4050 Pennsylvania Ave, KCMO).
  
  It will be held THIS Friday, July 8th from 5pm-12am, and Saturday, July 9th from 3pm-12am, and feature up to 20 local food trucks along with festival activities including pitchers of Boulevard Brewery beer, margaritas, DJs, bands, food demos, performers, local artisans and more. Cost is $5.00 per day. I love it when all the food trucks come together! (That last sentence is to be said in the voice of Hannibal Smith).

• Meet up:
  Erik and I are attending our first ever meet-up this Saturday with VegKC meet-up group, Kansas City’s vegan and vegetarian group. We thought it would be a fun way to meet people, and we’re eating at Eden Alley, already on my top recommended Kansas City restaurants list. We’ve never been to any meet up groups before, so it should be fun … I will report back later!

{Share the Love}

• Itzy’s Kitchen: Erica’s blog was actually the first food-related blog I found over two years ago, and is a huge reason why I started my blog. It would be hard to someone as sweet and helpful as her! The above link goes to her recent black bean burger recipe (that looks delicious!) On top of all that, she’s very close to having her first little one, and I couldn’t be happier for her!!

• Athlete’s Plate: Most simply put, Matt always has awesome healthy recipes and useful tips, and info. It also just so happens that this week I’m his featured blogger. So go check it out! Warning: you may start drinking kombucha if you stick around Matt’s blog for too long, ha.

• Eat, Live, Run’s Vegan Blueberry Almond Tart: Words really aren’t needed, this vegan tart looks way too good not to pass on!

Hope you all have a great weekend!!

Have you ever been a part of any Meetup groups?

Share the Love: 7/1/2011

Can you believe it’s July?? Not only that but it’s time for another weekend, and the Share the Love!

{Coming Up in KC}

• The Truck Stop in the Crossroads: I’m happy to have recently received an email from The Truck Stop team about “The Truck Stop” which, starting THIS First Friday, July 1st, is going to be a “permanent collection of Kansas City’s finest food trucks” every Frist Friday through October. Sounds good to me!

The Truck Stop will be located in the empty lot at 21st St and Wyandotte St from 6-11 p.m. This Friday’s food truck attendees will be:

-- Los Tules
-- Curbside Cuisine
-- Coffeecake KC
-- The Good You
-- Jerusalem Cafe

I would LOVE to go to this very first Truck Stop event and document the festivities via photos and blog post but since I’m in a wedding this weekend, I won’t make it. Have no fear, though, I will be there next month!

{Share the Love}

• The Employee Lounge: The Employee Lounge is a blog started by Linh Trieu and Tina Magee-Jenks. It’s a “daily blog about the service industry in Kansas City and a dialogue about what we can do to make our city better”. I love their blog. Not only are the photos amazing, but the content is awesome too! If you hurry, you can still get in on their 100th Day Giveaway!

• Color Wheel Meal’s Raw Ice Cream Sandwiches: These raw ice cream sandwiches are right up our alley, they look and sound delicious! In fact, most of the food she shares is right up our alley. I would definitely go and eat at Samantha’s house any day, ha.

• Rawxy’s Asparagus & Basil Soup: This asparagus and basil soup caught my eye, it looks fabulous and sounds like a perfect summer food! (Not to mention, we just got some new delicious looking basil plants). Callie also sells delicious treats, “Rawxies”. I promise, they ARE delicious, we got to try them at the Conveniently Natural grand opening.

Have a good one!