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Food Truck Festivals

A number of food truck festivals take place in Metro Vancouver each year including in Coquitlam, Maple Ridge, New Westminster and other places.

 


2024 FOOD TRUCK EVENTS

The first Greater Vancouver Food Truck Festival event of the year takes place at UBC on April 4th and 5th. A couple weeks later there’s Food Truck Wars at KPU Langley from April 19th to 21st, followed by the Coquitlam Community Fest at Town Centre Park on April 27th and 28th.

Chilliwack Party in the Park then takes place at Central Community Park on the first weekend of May. On May 11th and 12th of the Mother’s Day weekend, there’s also the Food Truck Fest at BCIT.

For details about these and other similar events, visit the Greater Vancouver Food Truck Festival‘s website.


 

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.

 

Fraser Valley Food Truck Festival
Food Truck Festival (pre-COVID)

 

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.)
  • Columbia StrEAT Food Truck Fest – a large street festival in New Westminster that features over a hundred food trucks and two or three live entertainment venues in the summer. Admission to the event is free. The festival was cancelled in 2020 and 2021. It took place in 2022 and 2023, but as New Westminster Car Free Day instead. 2024 details are to be confirmed.

 

Greater Vancouver Food Truck Festival
Food Truck Event in Maple Ridge

 

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):

2023 events included the following:

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

 

Tokyo Katsu Sand Food Truck

 

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.

 

Paw Patrol in Abbotsford
Paw Patrol at Abbotsford Food Truck Festival

 

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.)

 

Coquitlam Food Truck Vendor

 

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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