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 2025

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 many food truck vendors, not to mention tons of tasty things to eat and sometimes even beer.

Greater Vancouver Food Truck Festival Events

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

Greater Vancouver Food Truck Festival events happening in 2025 include the following:

• Food Truck Festival at UBC – on April 3rd & 4th.
• Food Truck Wars – on April 11th to 13th at the Cloverdale Fairgrounds.
• Chilliwack Party in the Park – on April 26th & 27th at Central Community Park.
• Chilliwack Ribfest – on July 25th to 27th at Vedder Park.
• White Rock Night Market – market vendors, food trucks and entertainment on one Friday each month in the summer.

Events last year included the following:

• Coquitlam Community Fest – in April in Coquitlam at Town Centre Park.
• BCIT Food Truck Fest – in May at BCIT’s Burnaby campus.
• Mission Ribfest – in early August at Mission’s Fraser River Heritage Park.
• Dished Food Truck Fest – outside the Vancouver Art Gallery in August.

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

Other Major Food Truck Venues

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

• Street Food City – a small food truck event featuring about 15 food truck vendors in the plaza outside the Vancouver Art Gallery in January as part of the annual Dine Out Vancouver Festival. (This event happens from January 24th to 26th in 2025.)
• 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. (From May 16th to September 12th in 2025.)
• 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. (From April 25th to October 13th in 2025.)

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.

Other articles that might be of interest include the following:

• Lower Mainland Restaurants
• Vancouver on a Budget
• Metro Vancouver’s Top 100 Places
• Vancouver Summer Activities
• Greater Vancouver Food Truck Festivals
• Lower Mainland Car Free Day Events