The 2013 Nashville Street Food Awards – Where You Can Be a Judge!
2013 Nashville Street Food Awards
Saturday, November 2nd, 2013
Noon – 5 pm
Centennial Park
The 2nd annual “Nashville Street Food Awards” is almost upon us so put on your eating pants! Featuring more than 20 of Nashville’s mobile vendors, the friendly competition will have a panel of judges sampling blind entries in a variety of categories, and customers voting for the “People’s Choice Award”.
Categories include:
Best Taco
Best Between Bread
Best Smoked
Best Dessert
Best Hot Nashville
Best Vegetarian
Best Deep Fried
Best Drink
Best Yazoo
Best Olive & Sinclair
The single highest scoring dish over all categories will be named Best of the Best.
The event is free and open to the public of all ages, and customers will have the opportunity to purchase food from any of the trucks. Menus will include both regular items and small ‘tastes’, so you have room in your belly to sample several!
Participating trucks include Biscuit Love Truck, Crepe A Diem, Deg Thai, Delta Bound, Doughworks, Hoss’ Loaded Burgers, The Grilled Cheeserie, Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream, Julia’s Bakery, The Mobile Chef, Moovers and Shakers, Music City Pie Co., Pappy’s Mobile Café, Riffs Fine Street Food, The Rolling Feast, Slow Hand Coffee, Smokin’ Thighs, Smoothie King, Sum Yum Yum, Two Guys in a Lunchbox, The Waffle Boss, and Wrappers Delight.
The “Desserts” round of judging at the 2012 Nashville Street Food Awards
Last year I had an absolute blast judging the “BBQ”, “Hot” and “Dessert” categories. I can still vividly remember Delta Bound’s BBQ slider with fried pickles and Deg Thai’s mango sticky rice, two of my favorites of the day.
While I’m super sad that I won’t be able to attend the event this year (Chicago bound on Friday!), I am happy to announce that I’m holding a contest to give one of my readers my judging spot!
Adventurous eaters are encouraged to enter, as you’ll be required to taste and judge entries from a few assigned categories, and you won’t find out which ones until you arrive on site that day. Your judging time will be from 12 (noon) – 1:30 pm on Saturday, so make sure your calendar is clear for that time before you enter.
To enter, all you have to do is this:
~Contest Closed~
Congratulations to the winner!
#22 Christina V
Mandatory
1. Leave a comment telling me about the best food truck dish you’ve had in Nashville. -OR- Is there a street food you’ve had in another city that you would love to see made here by one of our very own? Tell me about that!
For up to 2 additional entries, you can do either or both of the following. Note: You must leave a separate comment for each optional entry.
2. Follow me on Twitter (@betheats) and tweet “Want to be a judge at the Nashville Street Food Awards on Saturday?! @betheats is giving away a judging spot! http://bit.ly/17pcUPc”, then leave a comment telling me you’ve done so.
3. Like Eat.Drink.Smile. on Facebook and come back and tell me you did so (or just tell me you already do if that’s the case!)
Contest ends on Thursday, October 31st at NOON CDT. Once the winner is chosen, I’ll make contact via email and post the name here on the blog. If they don’t respond within 24 hours, I’ll be forced to choose another, so be sure to check your email!
The best food truck dish I’ve had are the squash fritters from Riffs. I could eat my weight in those!
Fish tacos from Riffs! Man.. those are no joke.
Followed on twitter and tweeted :)
Best food truck dish I’ve had (anywhere) is Smoke et Al’s sour cream & sage biscuits with smoked chicken and honey. I think I could eat 3 or 4 servings at a time.
Next year I will have to make sure I don’t include my screaming baby in the background of the judging photos… :)
The Pimento Mac and Chee from The Grilled Cheeserie is one of my top sandwiches of all time. An absolute creamy, gooey mess complimented with the deliciously salty flavor of Benton’s bacon bits. If you haven’t had one, you are doing life wrong!
The best food truck dish I have had is the shrimp and grits from Mere Bulles. It is spicy, savory and amazing!
I follow you on Twitter and I sent out the tweet!
Just followed you on FB! I would LOVE to win.
The Shrimp and Grits @ Riffs was AMAZING!
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Not an option for me since I’ll be in Fort Worth this weekend, but this looks like an amazing time. Jealous of whoever gets to do this.
two favorite dishes – Riff’s sandwich with “bacon jam,” I think? it was at tomato fest. so good. then, the grilled cheeserie’s sandwich with squash on it. yum. also, i love the ice cream sandwiches from The Sugar Wagon … Oh! and brisket from smoke et al … ok, i’ll stop .. ha!
posted on twitter and already follow you :)
already like you on FB …
The east nasty biscuit from biscuit love is my favorite dish. Its amazing
Liked eat drink smile on facebook
The east nasty biscuit on biscuit love is my favorite dish. Its amazing
I like you on Facebook!
So, they’re not a food truck anymore, but the fish tacos at Mas Tacos are my absolute favorite. I don’t even go over to East Nashville unless I know I can stop by and get one…or three.
Tweeted!
Already like you on Facebook!
Riff’s fine street food! I have had some wings and squash fritters that were incredible.
Liked on FB too.
I tweeted!
hey Beth! I still consider Riff’s Shrimp & Grits some of the best I’ve ever had in my life! Wish it was a staple on their many! They also, for a brief stint, made what I called “heart attack on a plate”– a burger with pimento cheese Mac n cheese on top then a fried egg on top of that! I can’t remember what they called it but it was spectacular!
I already follow you on Twitter & FB but I tweeted about the contest! Have fun in CHI town!
Riff’s Caribbean Burger…simply amazing. Oh, and Sum Yum Yum’s egg rolls!
I tweeted!
I like you on FB.
The best Nashville food truck dish I have had was probably the autumn harvest sandwich from the Grilled Cheeserie. Roasted butternut squash, shredded turkey, cranberries…delicious!
I follow you and I tweeted about this opportunity :)
I like you on facebook and that is how I found out about this!
I followed you on Twitter and liked you on Facebook! As far as my favorite food truck dish, that is a tough one. Tied for first:
S’mOreo – Nutella, Fluff and Oreos – from Slow Hand Coffee
The Tropic Elvis – peanut butter and bananas – from Moovers and Shakers
My usual – cheddar and bacon on rosemary garlic with tater tots (and don’t forget the tot sauce) from Grilled Cheeserie.
I really, really hope I get chosen for this!!!!
I love all of the Nashville food trucks, but I want to see Kargi Gogo here! It’s in Portland, OR and it features food from Georgia, the country!!
I loved the pizza grilled cheese from The Grilled Cheeserie! Yummy!!
The Smokin Thighs food truck will be at the Street food awards with the famous Bacon Mac & Cheese (bacon optional) along with several lip smaking chicken selections! Find Their locations… http://www.smokinthighs.com/calendarschedule.html
Riff’s “CroNut” (doughnut meets croissant) served at “Sugar Rush”
Everything made by The Grilled Chesserie
Best food truck in Nashville? Definitely The Grilled Cheeserie. My favorite is the Pimento and Chee sandwich, tomato soup, and the seasonal Pumpkin Brulee is FANTASTIC!
I tweeted: https://twitter.com/katiejallred/status/395684666327322624
Also I liked the page: http://cl.ly/image/251a432R1W31
I would love to go and write some reviews for my blog or yours!
Biscuit Love is one of my all time favorite local trucks. They have a great “Hot Chicken” biscuit that will make your mouth water just looking at it.
(I also ‘Liked’ your facebook page)
After living in Budapest for a couple years I really miss Kürtőskalács and wish there was a food truck making these delicious sweet treats
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kürtőskalács
Retweeted and already follow on twitter
Already follow on FB …Thank you!
It’s a tie between Riff’s fish tacos or Deg Thai’s red curry. Oh wait, actually maybe Riff’s Conkies takes the cake…but they so rarely make them!
Woo hoo! So excited! Thanks Beth!
Congrats Christina V. !