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South Point Gourmet Food Truck Fest

November 25, 2011
South Point Food Truck Fest

South Point Food Truck Fest

Las Vegas, November 5, 2011 was the South Point Gourmet Food Truck Fest. The event featured several of Las Vegas’ most popular restaurants on wheels as well as food trucks who rolled in from Los Angeles, San Francisco and Denver.  Sin City Wings, Nom Nom Truck Tasty Bunz, Food Slingers, Biker Jim, Cool Haus, BBQ Boy, Love Grub, Wings on Wheels, Food Slingers, Slap Yo Mama, Haute Chix, IchiMas, Ludo Truck, Pop’s Philly Cheesesteak Truck, Slidin’ Thru, WTF Pizza, Longboards and The Chairman Boa.

Big Crowds at the South Point

Big Crowds at the South Point

Slidin' Thur

Slidin' Thru

Slap Yo Mama

Slap Yo Mama

Sin City Wings

Sin City Wings

Pops Philly Truck

Pops Philly Truck

Nom Nom Truck

Nom Nom Truck

Ludo Truck

Ludo Truck

Love Grub

Love Grub

Ichis Mas

Ichi Mas

Haute Chic

Haute Chic

Food Slingers

Food Slingers

Cool Haus

Cool Haus

Biker Jim's

BBQ Boy

BBQ Boy

WTF Pizza

WTF Pizza

Wings on Wheels

Wings on Wheels

Tasty Bunz

Tasty Bunz

The Chairman

Chairman Bao

Crowds

Crowds

Big Lines

Big Lines

Longboards

Longboards

Tables

Tables to sit at

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Photos by: LasVegas360.com
Date taken: November 5, 2011

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Vegas Streats Festival Food Trucks Ran Over by Crowds

August 14, 2011

Fukuburger Truck

Muncheeze - Grilled Cheese Sandwiches

Tasty Bunz

The monthly Vegas Streats Festival was held on August 13, 2011. This was the 6th monthly festival in a row and is growing larger each month. East Fremont was hammered by flocks of people to get a chance to listen to some music, see some art and stand in extremely long lines for food from speciality food trucks. Has the Las Vegas Streats Festival become too big to handle the crowds?  Well, I went down to East Fremont about 8:30pm, again a long line just to enter the festival area like last month but bigger. My intention was to sample a few new trucks this month.  I wanted to check out Fukuburger, Muncheeze, and stop by Snow Ono for a tasty cool treat. But, the lines. The lines were quite long. They were 30-40 people deep at most trucks just to place an order.  Fukuburger, I know you have lots of fans, but damn, that line was ridiculously long. I had to pass you guys up this time (Fukuburger), catch you at a different venue.

I got in the line for Muncheeze, I was hoping these guys were cranking it out.  Well it took over 30 minutes just to get up to the window and to place my order.  I walked around while the food was getting prepared., came back, and then walked around some more.  Now the thing I noticed over the previous month was the masses of people at the festival lined up at the trucks.  There was a continuos line of people outside waiting to get in and it extended half way down the block to the Beat Coffee shop.  I went back to the Muncheeze truck to see if my order was up. Nope. I even spent some time talking to a girl who was handing out menus for Muncheeze and she pointed out what was the most popular items on the menu.  She even mentioned something about a management change and that it was now a family business.  I even got to visit the inter sanctum inside the truck to snap a few photos.

About 30+ minutes passed after placing my order, the food was ready.  My food review will be in a separate post from this one. Spoiler – I like the food from Muncheeze.  Now, I am a great fan of food trucks, but this will probably be my last time at the Vegas Streats Festival.  I really don’t blame the guys and girls in the trucks, but they need to step it up or scale it up a little to move the food out faster.  Now this was just not a problem for this food truck. This seemed to be the theme affecting all the food vendors.  I went over to the Snow Ono truck and there was no line at the window, I walked up ready to place my order and the guy said that there is an 1 hour wait to get your order.  At this point, I said to myself, the Vegas Streat Festival (at least for the food trucks) have hit their maximum capacity.  I will meet up with them on an individual basis at other venues, not here for future food eats.

My hopes for the Vegas Streats Festival, I guess was too high. The music was good, the mix of people, the artists, even the El Cortez placed at least a half dozen more tables out since last time, but fell short in delivering enough food out their windows of those fabulous trucks.  I will just have to track your trucks down in a less crowed place.

Food trucks and business mention in this article:

http://muncheezetruck.com/
http://snowonoshaveice.com
http://www.fukuburger.com
http://www.thebeatlv.com
http://vegasstreats.com
http://tastybunz.com
http://www.elcortezhotelcasino.com

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Taking it to the Streets – Vegas StrEats Festival

August 11, 2011

The Food Network is getting ready for the premiere of the second season of The Great Food Truck Race, which airs Sunday August 14, 2011 10pm/9c.  Now, you have to chance to experience Las Vegas’ food trucks in the monthly Las Vegas Streats Festival.  The Festival starts at 6pm – 2am August 13, 2011 in Downtown Las Vegas across the street from the El Cortez. Admission is free and there will be Live Music, Dj’s, and Artist, and along with Vegas’ own upscale Food Trucks. Including: Slidin’ Thru, Fukuburger, Tasty Buns, Snow Ono, Muncheeze, Lulu’s On the Move and others. Great food and music bringing new life to the downtown, see you there.

For a quick recap of last month’s Vegas Streats Festival – see July’s post and pictures.

VegasStreats

Vegas Streats Festival - Saturday August 13, 2011 @6pm-2am

Visit their website http://www.vegasstreats.com

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Slidin’ Thru – Hittin’ the Hot Streets of Vegas

July 22, 2011

In 2010, I got hooked on the Food Channel’s The Great Food Truck Race which is a reality television show featuring teams of specialty food trucks competing against each other. The show was very engaging as they competed across the United Stated, cooking, driving and selling food to make money. After watching the series I told myself that the food looks like it would taste real good and I would go to one in a heartbeat. Remember, that this is not your run-of-the-mill “roach coach” frequented by construction workers, these are speciality food trucks dishing up highly sophisticated meals with a twist.

A few weeks ago I got the opportunity to go to the Vegas StrEATS Festival, it was held downtown and offered about ten different food trucks. The Festival has been held since March of 2010 and happens on the second Saturday of each month. Many of the trucks use Twitter or their web site to keep everyone posted on their whereabouts. Facebook also enables them to talk to their fans and keep everyone up to date. This was the first time that I tried out the Slidin’ Thru slider truck, they specialize in mini gourmet burgers. The term “slider” usually conjures up the grease laden belly bombers from White Castle from back in the day. Well these aren’t your dad’s sliders, these are mini bites of flavor with ingredients like grilled eggplant, Roma tomatoes, arugula, caramelized jalapeño, feta and balsamic reduction.

Slidin' Thru Food Truck

Slidin' Thru Food Truck

I recently had a second chance to sample most of the slider combinations they offer. I had the Pep Pep, Captian’s Order, and the Pulled Porky, the time before was the YaYa and the Barby. So I have covered all of them except the Carprese (next time). I will give you the run down in order of my favorites, Pulled Porky was the best, follow by the Barby, Pep Pep, Yaya, and Captian’s Order. All of the burgers were fully loaded and had a lot to offer. The Porky was stuffed with pulled pork which contrasted with the spiciness of the caramelized jalapeños and the sweetness of the BBQ sauce and I needed a fork to gather up the spilled bits of goodness, nothing to waste. The Fries both regular and sweet potato fries really surprised me with how good they are coming out a food truck. The burgers were cooked to perfection and prepared with detail in mind. This actually seems to be one of their down falls, the waiting time.  If you are in a hurry and there is a long line, be prepared to wait a while.

The colorful Slidin’ Thru truck is wrapped in a comic book style motif and can’t be missed.  The Mexi-Cokes and Sprite drinks are all served in  old school glass bottles and need to be opened with a bottle opener. The prices are good, $7 will buy you 3 sliders in any combination, and at 3 you will be full.

They currently have a sit down restaurant located at 955 Grier Drive near Sunset and Paradise, phone 702-220-3888  slidinthru.com

Hours are: MON-THU (10:30 AM – 12 AM) and FRI-SUN (OPEN 24/7)

They also tell us that they have two more stores opening soon on the northwest and southwest end of town.

Slidin' Thru

From left: Pep Pep, Captain's Order and Pulled Porky

Slidin' Thru Comic Book Motif

Slider Truck on Urbanspoon

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