Limerick International Food Truck Festival

bigpink

Anyone going to this?looking forward to it.Seems to be very little information about it?

pigtown

Sickened I can't go. It looks very promising.
Website; https://www.limerick.ie/discover/eat-see-do/festivals/limerick-international-food-truck-festival
Brochure; https://www.limerick.ie/sites/default/files/media/documents/2017-05/Limerick%20International%20Food%20Truck%20Festival%20Programme.pdf
Facebook; https://www.facebook.com/LimkFoodTruck/
Twitter; https://twitter.com/LimkFoodTruck

Autism-friendly evening Thursday.
Food trucks open until 11 most nights.

bigpink

Hopfully better ran than last years food festival or riverfest

bigpink

Is it free or tickets?

Wardling

bigpink wrote:

Is it free or tickets?

It was meant to be ticketed but free just to control the numbers. I had been in touch recently and they've decided to scrap the tickets. Just show up, they expect to have enough room for everyone.

bigpink

Very poor promotion of this event.The flyers dont give any entry info times and only lists 9 trucks.Hopfully they get social media updating

zulutango

It's a pity the weather has turned bad. Is the thing in the People's Park part of it?

sioda

It is the thing in the people's park

JoeLapira

Very little info and even less advertising about for this. Plenty of people i've spoken didnt even know it was on. I'm looking forward to it though, been dying to try a Lobster Roll and from what i gather there'll be shark and crocodile available aswell. Plus they're advertising Craft Beers aswell, so hopefully they have a good selection. Weather looks crap, but isnt it always on a Bank Holiday Weekend so that wont stop me from stopping in.

keane2097

Good article about it here:

http://nigeldugdale.ie/2017/05/31/crazy-dream-comes-true-food-trucks-arrive-irelands-first-ever-international-food-truck-festival-heart-city-centre/

Looking forward to this.

bigpink

Hope its Treaty City at least not some big company doing the beers

panda100

Planning on heading there on a date tonight. There better be beer there, Treaty or otherwise!

bigpink

Nothing on facebook about the stalls or if theres beer.Maybe keeping family friendly
Good luck on the date:)

bigpink

Treaty City have nothing on there facebook or twitter about it anyway

um7y1h83ge06nx

Wife wants to go tomorrow evening but I keep thinking of the mess that was that food festival in the Milk Market last year. Will go anyway and cross my fingers.

I hope they use the space in the park to spread out the food trucks and not cram them in close together like they did with the stalls in the Milk Market and the BBQ competition for this year's Riverfest.

I really want it to be good for Limerick's sake, I just have low expectations based on past events.

Lobsterlady

I just popped in there. There were about 12 trucks there, only in the area behind St. Michaels school - not all the way around the park as the brochure shows. The Lobster Truck is there, and LaLa Poutine - none of them were up and running yet. The only thing I could get the kids were some sad chips from an old fashioned fish n chip van - they had no fish ready. I went to order a drink and they told me they weren't allowed to sell drinks! So I went over to the coffee truck to get a coke.
We sat at a table under some trees, where a few minutes later, security came up to me and asked if I was part of the crew! I laughed (I had kids in school uniforms with me), and said 'no'....he then told me I'd have to leave...that they were clearing the area.

I thought this was advertised from the 1st of June, I know it's a bit early in the afternoon but nothing was really up and running. It's way way smaller than I thought it would be.
Hoping it'll be better by this evening. Will wait to hear from other boardsie's before heading back in over the weekend (we want some Poutine and Lobster).

Oh and there is a big white tent that say's 'Bar' on it.

Pacifico

Yeah I thought it was from 5pm today?

bigpink

Lobsterlady wrote: »

I just popped in there. There were about 12 trucks there, only in the area behind St. Michaels school - not all the way around the park as the brochure shows. The Lobster Truck is there, and LaLa Poutine - none of them were up and running yet. The only thing I could get the kids were some sad chips from an old fashioned fish n chip van - they had no fish ready. I went to order a drink and they told me they weren't allowed to sell drinks! So I went over to the coffee truck to get a coke.
We sat at a table under some trees, where a few minutes later, security came up to me and asked if I was part of the crew! I laughed (I had kids in school uniforms with me), and said 'no'....he then told me I'd have to leave...that they were clearing the area.

I thought this was advertised from the 1st of June, I know it's a bit early in the afternoon but nothing was really up and running. It's way way smaller than I thought it would be.
Hoping it'll be better by this evening. Will wait to hear from other boardsie's before heading back in over the weekend (we want some Poutine and Lobster).

Oh and there is a big white tent that say's 'Bar' on it.

Planning on going tonight?Sounds like not worth it

Lobsterlady

bigpink wrote: »

Planning on going tonight?Sounds like not worth it

Limerick Leader said there would be 60! Unless they all roll in tonight

Pacifico

I think it's 60 over the whole weekend

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Exeggcute

Lol sounds farcical

JoeLapira

Walked passed the park on my way to work just there(didnt have time to stop in) and apart from the lovely smell it didnt appear if anything special was on. No banners/flags surronding the park that i could see, maybe when there's music it might help draw people in.

OfTheMarsWongs

I was there just before lunch time. Good few trucks open. Some were just getting ready to open.

Beer Tent has a Dolans sign on it and there's a Treaty City Brewery sign on one of the trees.

There's a mini-stage next to the beer tent with band equipment.

JoeLapira

Friend of mine was at it this afternoon, he was very disappointed with the whole thing. About 12 to 15 stalls doing food and in the beer tent you had Hop House, Carlsberg, Guinness and some spirits available. Any advertisements/articles i saw regularly mentioned a "Craft Beer Selection", Treaty City is all they have. I'll still go in for a gander tomorrow but it doesnt sound promising.

bigpink

Nice little set up shows the park can be used more
Food choice maybe 15 trucks and stalls
Them fecking swinging grills at every event 2 of them.2 fish and chippers
Dolans seem to have the bar all guinness products with a treaty tap
Nice vibe but wont cope if the crowds ram it

Strettie11

I was down there this afternoon and as Bigpink said there is a nice little set up with only 15 food trucks only half of those I would say are from outside Ireland but it is a long way from what was advertised in March

Food trucks have been the hippest thing on the foodie scene for a while now.
However, if you still get a buzz from queuing up in front of one for something tasty and a little different, you are going to be as excited as we are about this next piece of news.

Because this summer, Europe's largest food truck festival is coming to Limerick – all thanks to Dubliner Alan Woods who only last year returned to Ireland after a 24-year stint in France.

Upon settling down in Limerick, Woods, who had been inspired by the food truck culture he had seen abroad, set up a food truck called Mexican Food Dudes – and also persuaded Limerick City Council to set up Street Food Wednesdays on the Boardwalk between May and September (in the winter months they move inside to the Milk Market.)

However, this June Bank Holiday food trucks are going to pretty much take over Limerick as the European Food Truck Association will descend upon the city's People Park with a whopping 60 food trucks from 14 different countries.

As well as this, plenty Irish food trucks will make an appearance as well, and Woods is keen to stress this is not 'fast food' in the traditional sense, but rather something far more interesting and tasty.

This is what Woods told the Irish Times:

“It’s not the type of food you get coming out of a football match or when the pubs close and people pull money out of their pockets and say ‘give me food.’ ... It’s not about opening up a bag of frozen chips and putting them in a fryer.”
According to Woods, this summer's food festival will host trucks serving everything from chocolate to lobster burgers, shark steaks, cuts of crocodile and one truck specialising in insect dishes.

Exeggcute

lol

Anonymagician

Went to the festival this evening - it was very busy but not in a cramped sort of way. By the time I got there just before 8pm a couple of the trucks had run out of food. There was a fantastic atmosphere about the place, plenty of families and dogs as well as people there for a few beers.

Got a burger + chips from a truck that came from Luxembourg and the long wait time was worth it. You wouldn't spend hours at the thing but I definitely enjoyed it for what it was anyway.

James Bond Junior

Callled in this evening. Thought it was absolutely lovely. We had poutine, tasty stuff. Had a look at the lobster truck but I didn't really feel like spending €14 on a roll. It's not the biggest thing in the world but it's the kind of thing you call into, have a bite and a pint and move along. There is something for everybody in fairness so I really can't understand the naysayers on here slating it.

zulutango

The marketing for these kind of things in Limerick is always along the lines "It's going to be huge .. omg .. you have to come along .. biggest in the world ever". It always seems to be about hyping things up because the substance isn't there. Riverfest springs to mind. It's such poor marketing because ultimately if you sell people one thing and give them another they won't be happy and you're wide open to criticism.

But here it sounds like a guy has put together something fairly interesting and unique. Sell it on its merits not on how bloody massive it's going to be. It sounds pretty good and people will respond to that. So ****ing what if it's not the biggest food festival ever? Seems like a great addition to what's going on in the summer in the city. Well done to those involved in organising it.