Food trucks have pretty much been the hippest thing on the foodie scene for a while now, but 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.
Now, who’s ready for a road trip to Limerick this summer?!
