This insightful video, produced by Drew Costley and Andrew George, is part of this week's cover story on food trucks and the regulatory battle they face to keep their business alive. Listen to three food truck owners explain some of the difficulties they face on the streets of D.C.
Street food lovers, now that Adrian Fenty and Vincent Gray have finished duking it out, it's time for a voting contest you really care about: deciding which street vendors will take part in the first annual Curbside Cook-off on Oct. 7 and 8 at CityCenterDC. DCRA, in partnership with the D.C. Commission on the Arts [...]
In what could become D.C.'s own version of the Vendy Awards, Brightest Young Things has just announced the First Annual Curbside Cook-Off set for next month on the site of the old convention center. BYT is partnering with DCRA and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities to present the two-day event on October [...]
If you've been following Twitter today, you know that local food trucks have been asking more of you than usual. These new mobile vendors are collectively banding together to make their voices heard at the DC Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs and, by extension, the D.C. Council. And they need your help. They realize [...]
People, what are you doing reading this? It's Memorial Day. It's gorgeous outside. Get off the computer and fire up the grill. Or take a walk. Go to the park with your kids and your dog. Eat something good. Who cares what the top five items were last week on the Young & Hungry blog? [...]
We had a lively discussion yesterday on the past, present, and future of D.C. street food (although Kojo did call me out for drinking on the job in NYC!). Nnamdi even had one of the Fojol Bros. call in from the streets. If you missed it, you can hear the whole segment here. Photo courtesy [...]
In preparation for my chat this afternoon with Kojo Nnamdi, I tugged yet again on the ear of Sam Williams, the vending and special events coordinator for D.C.'s Department of Consumer and Regulatory Agency. He's my Deep Throat when it comes to understanding the complex world of D.C. street vending. One of the main stumbling [...]
As I reported earlier, the owners of the Red Hook Lobster Pound in Brooklyn decided to launch a food truck in D.C. because they felt the District's bureaucracy was less burdensome than the Big Apple's. But as this week's Young & Hungry column shows, D.C. is not without its minor annoyances to street vendors. One [...]
This may be a first: A Brooklyn lobster vendor is planning to launch a street truck in D.C. because our bureaucracy is easier to deal with. So says Susan Povich, co-owner of the Red Hook Lobster Pound in Brooklyn, who told the New York Times earlier this week that she's given up on the burdensome [...]
The weather turned warm this week, and I turned to the streets to see what food was available. The short answer: nothing you don't know about already. Some of the better food carts/trucks haven't even opened for the season yet. Yesterday, I spoke with the city, which has been struggling for years to reverse our [...]
