Greater Vancouver Food Truck Festival

A number of food truck festivals take place in Metro Vancouver each year including in Coquitlam, Burnaby, Chilliwack and other communities.

To learn about these and other similar events, see our article about the Greater Vancouver Food Truck Festival or visit the website greatervanfoodtruckfest.com.

Vancouver Food Truck Festivals

In addition to all the many general festivals in the region that happen to have food trucks at their events, there are festivals whose primary focus is the food vendors themselves.

Most Lower Mainland food truck festivals feature free admission, some form of live entertainment and dozens of food truck vendors, not to mention tons of tasty things to eat and sometimes even beer.

Food Festival Locations

Major food truck festivals in the Lower Mainland most years include the following:

Street Food City – a small food truck event featuring about 20 food truck vendors (including about a dozen at a time) in the plaza outside the Vancouver Art Gallery in January as part of the annual Dine Out Vancouver Festival. (This event happened from January 21st until 28th in 2024.)

Greater Vancouver Food Truck Festival Events

Formerly called the Fraser Valley Food Truck Festival, the Greater Vancouver Food Truck Festival hosts a number of other medium-sized food truck events at various times of the year.

Greater Vancouver Food Truck Festival events happening in 2024 include the following (with more likely to happen later in the year):

Food Truck Festival at UBC – on April 4th & 5th at UBC.
Food Truck Wars – on April 19th to 21st at KPU Langley.
Coquitlam Community Fest – on April 27th and 28th in Coquitlam at Town Centre Park.
Chilliwack Party in the Park – on May 4th and 5th at Chilliwack’s Central Community Park.
BCIT Food Truck Fest – on May 11th and 12th at BCIT’s Burnaby campus.
Langley Community Day – at Douglas Park on June 8th.
Dished Food Truck Fest – outside the Vancouver Art Gallery on August 11th.
Chilliwack Ribfest – on July 26th, 27th and 28th at Vedder Park in Chilliwack.
Mission Ribfest – on August 2nd to 5th at Mission’s Fraser River Heritage Park.
White Rock Night Market – market vendors, food trucks and entertainment on the last Friday of the month in the summer in White Rock.

2023 events included the following:

Surrey Block Party – on June 3rd and 4th at the Cloverdale Fairgrounds in Surrey.
Mission Block Party – on June 24th and 25th at Mission’s Fraser River Heritage Park.
Maple Ridge Feast of Ales – on September 15th, 16th and 17th at the Albion Fairgrounds in Maple Ridge.

See the Greater Vancouver Food Truck Festival website for details about upcoming events.

Other Major Food Truck Venues

If you love food trucks other events that feature especially numerous food truck and carnival-type food vendors, then you’ll likely also like the following:

The Pacific National Exhibition – the PNE features dozens of food truck vendors from mid-August until the beginning of September.
Shipyard Night Market – a night market with live music and, on especially busy days, up to a couple of dozen food trucks on Friday evenings in North Vancouver.
Richmond Night Market – the Lower Mainland’s largest night market has dozens of food vendors selling all kinds of Asian and other exotic and tasty kinds of festival foods on weekends in the summer.

The Corn Dog King — Corn Dog King at Cloverdale Rodeo

Vancouver Food Truck Companies

Participants at food truck festivals range from vendors selling curly-fried potatoes on sticks to ice cream, fried octopus, Thai noodles, Indian curries, kettle corn popcorn, pizza and lemonade.

Examples of specific vendors often found on Vancouver’s streets and at Lower Mainland festivals include the following:

Corn Dog King – a frequent participant at community fairs that sells corn cogs on sticks. (Part of the locally-based Next Gen Concessions group of food trucks.)
Mom’s Grilled Cheese – a popular sandwich food truck.
Vij’s Railway Express – an East Indian food truck related to Vancouver’s famous Vij’s restaurant located at 3106 Cambie Street. The food truck menu portions aren’t large, but the food is tasty.
Rocky Point Ice Cream – an ice cream company with a home base at Port Moody’s Rocky Point Park that’s a frequent participant at Metro Vancouver festivals.
Mr. Shawarma – a vendor selling Middle Eastern cuisine.
Roaming Dragon – a street food provider with an Asian-Fusion menu.
Street Dogs & Burgers – a food truck specializing in hot dogs and hamburgers. (Part of the locally-based Next Gen Concessions group of food trucks.)
Japadog – a Japanese-style hot dog stand that became popular during the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. It has a number of semi-permanent on-street locations including near Waterfront Station and on Robson Street. Occasionally you’ll also see them at a festival.
Super Foot Long Hot Dogs – a vendor of world-famous hot dogs that’s a regular participant at the PNE. (Part of the locally-based Next Gen Concessions group of food trucks.)

Other Information

For a list of other festivals and events in the Lower Mainland, including ones that don’t feature food trucks, check out Vancouver’s Calendar of Events or click Festivals & Events Calendar.

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