Toronto has two new downtown food-truck hubs
No thanks to city council, Toronto food-truckers seems to be doing okay. More than okay, actually. In the past couple weeks, they’ve banded together to form two semi-permanent snack venues, both set up on private lots. On the east side, there’s Food Truck Alley, a Wednesday-through-Friday lunchtime hub located on a wedge of asphalt at Queen and Jarvis streets (there’s currently only room for two trucks at a time—so, baby steps). Servicing the west side is King West Eats, a larger operation that’s open seven days a week, for lunch and dinner, in a parking lot near Adelaide and Brant streets. It’s not exactly an east-west rivalry (Toronto food truckers are a pretty tight-knit bunch), but downtowners will have to decide where they want to pledge their lunchtime allegiance. Or, you know, just go to whichever one is closer to work. A complete Toronto food-truck calendar is available here.
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No thanks to city council, Toronto food-truckers seems to be doing okay. More than okay, actually. In the past couple weeks, they've banded together to form two semi-permanent snack venues, both set up on private lots. On the east side, there's Food Truck Alley, a Wednesday-through-Friday lunchtime hub located on a wedge of asphalt at Queen and Jarvis streets (there's currently only room for two trucks at a time—so, baby steps). Servicing the west side is King West Eats, a larger operation that's open seven days a week, for lunch and dinner, in a parking lot near Adelaide and Brant streets. It's not exactly an east-west rivalry (Toronto food truckers are a pretty tight-knit bunch), but downtowners will have to decide where they want to pledge their lunchtime allegiance. Or, you know, just go to whichever one is closer to work. A complete Toronto food-truck calendar is available here.){kind=link}
I’ve seen different ones several days each week for the past few at King just east of Parliament on the north side. Seem to do a good business. Time for council to back off, and, so to speak, let the chips fall where they may.
There is a two lane unused road travelling South to North in Allan Gardens at the historic Conservatory…weekend truck (room for a couple of dozen) food festival would take a bit to catch on (if Tourism) helped and if the Parks Board would get off their butts and put out the dozens of picnic tables we own but are never put out in the park…this through hub would have to be more of a deliberate destination than passing trade but with the right editorials it could attract each week end like taste of the Danforth…are there no organizers out there with drive? Call Rob Ford and pitch the idea.