Yes, there is going to be real food at this year's Waterfront Festival thanks to an incredible assortment of gourmet food trucks participating. Finally a great event with great food. Here is this year's line up:
Fidel Gastro's
Toronto’s first street food experience company offering a delicious food experience with every sandwich that is prepared.
Whenever people see the Pretty Sweet truck, they ask me how I got here.
Usually, I answer, “Yonge Street, then over to the 401…” before they interrupt me with, “No, how did you get here? How did you become a cake artist?”
The short answer? I always loved to bake. I started making cakes as a hobby for family and friends, and then I blossomed my passion into a career in confectionary arts.
The long answer? I didn’t just love baking. I lived for it. But I knew there was way more to becoming an accomplished cake designer than just loving the craft. So, I worked hard. I made cakes for family and friends. And I made practice cakes that would ultimately go uneaten. Hundreds of them. Maybe thousands.
Eager to always outdo the last cake I baked, I studied at the Bonnie Gordon School of Cakes in Toronto, learning from the best of the best, including the very talented Peggy Porschen.
That’s what drove me here.
Bonfire Catering
Ontario’s first Mobile Wood Fired Oven with a full commercial kitchen offering pizza and other full menu items
Link to: http://www.bonfirecatering.com/
Hogtown Smoke
During a backyard renovation my husband Charles decided to use his masonry skills and various stones leftover from his jobsites to create a wood fired pizza oven. Never having eaten wood fired pizza before we were surprised to find it totally transformed our idea of what real pizza was. It created a passion in us to try as many wood fired restaurants as we could find, read as many books as we could get, scour the internet for ideas, all to perfect our version of wood fired pizza.
Bonfire Catering started as an idea when we had strangers in our community as well as friends of friends asking if they could come to dinner to experience this great food they had heard about. During our online research we saw that there were some mobile wood fired ovens out there but it was almost nonexistent in Canada. The ovens we did see were mostly all the same, small trailers without a commercial kitchen so we did what we do when home renovating. I sketched what I wanted and Charles built it for me.
My original idea was to go to farmers markets and to do a bit of private catering. Two seasons later we have found ourselves immersed in a growing food truck culture here in Ontario and couldn’t be happier. Weddings, television shoots, Bar Mitzvah , 75th birthday parties, concerts, employee or customer appreciation lunches , grand openings, frosh week, homecomings and of course food truck events all make a varied and interesting work week for us. If you have an event we would love to hear about it and discuss how we can make it fabulous or to see you on the road at one of the fun public events we attend. Follow us on facebook to find where we’ll be, I hope to see you on the road!
West Coast Poutine
New from the Hogtown Smoke team, West Coast Poutine is serving delicious poutine and burgers on the streets of Toronto.
Frankie Fettuccine
Canada’s first gourmet pasta truck offering handmade dishes that are prepared just the way Nonna would have done it!
Crossroads Diner
Crossroads Diner is brought to you by owner, David Gleeson, and Chef, Alan Usher. With a combined 12+ years experience in the restaurant industry here in Toronto, Vancouver and overseas, we wanted to bring affordable, quality food to the streets.
We are committed to making Toronto a city with street food that is accessible, and that we can be proud of.
Not your average diner, Crossroads will bring Toronto's fine citizens a changing menu filled with healthy, seasonable options and guilty pleasures. Our menu's focus is on quality ingredients and a modern approach to diner classics. We know you'll enjoy them as much as we do!
Toasty Zappi
This food truck operation was started in 2008 in Toronto, as one of the first in the city ' Alternative Food Options '.
Started as an independent study project at RYE U at Architecture, and now open for business.
Formerly known as ' Zappi Factory '
We had a couple of articles written about us when started out, then paused the biz for a while and now back up and running, in the west end of Toronto
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The Dirty South
The Dirty South is a gourmet BBQ mobile food truck. The General Lee style “Genny” hit the streets of Hamilton and surrounding area in July of 2012. Head chef and food truck-preneur, Brett Liersch has over 25 years of experience in the food industry, the past 11 for a leading restaurant chain.
He finally became sick working in a monotonous chain environment where checklists over took quality and creativity. He decided to do something for himself and focus on a past catering venture (the “classy cousin” catering company called Kreative Katering) as well as develop a new outlet “The Dirty South” where he could take a love of BBQ food and add a gourmet twist. He is constantly coming up with featured items and unique variations of the menu.
The Dirty South boys try and set themselves apart with a unique twist on comfort food, offering generous portions at a reasonable price. All of the sauces, seasonings and rubs are made from scratch, anything they can’t make themselves, they source out to local business that operate under the highest standards. They truly are bringing the deep South to you ... literally. See you on the streets!
Karma ChaMEALeon
Ontario’s first 100% plant-based and animal-free food truck. Our menu is inspired by fresh, natural, and local ingredients. We wish to be a catalyst for positive change by providing healthier, greener, and more compassionate food choices for a sustainable planet. We only use eco-friendly packaging and materials.
Acting locally, thinking globally… changing the world one bite at a time.
SWAT (Sandwiches With A Twist)
Not Fast Food, Great Food Fast!
