Food Truck Challenge

Event Details

Calling all food lovers, Crocker Park will host their seventh annual Food Truck Challenge sponsored by Serpentini of Westlake on Saturday, October 1 from 11am-4pm. Cleveland’s best food trucks will be lining up on Crocker Park’s Main Street to compete to win one of the “best of…” categories being judged. This year’s event returns bigger and better with more food trucks, more celebrity judges and more fun all around.

This fun and competitive event hosts an impressive list of food trucks all offering special and unique menu options beginning at 11am. During the event, visitors will have the opportunity to participate by picking up a ballot at the designated voting station, trying as many food truck menu items as they would like, and submitting a voting ballot before 3pm (one per person).

Categories Include:
• Best Sandwich/Wrap
• Best Vegetarian Dish
• Best Through A Straw
• Best Dessert
• Best On A Plate
• Friendliest Truck
• People’s Choice Awards
• Judges’ Best In Show

Participating Food Trucks Include:
• Birdie’s Food Truck
• Boss ChicknBeer
• bRaised in the CLE
• Casino Café
• Cedar Grill
• Dr. Hibachi Food Truck
• Eddie’s Famous Cheesesteaks
• Enticing Cupcakes
• Hippie Sips
• King Tut Egyptian Street Food
• Kona Ice
• Original Steak & Hoagies
• Pork In The Road
• Samurai Dynasty
• Signature Slush
• Smoke This
• Smoky Sweet Soul
• Smokin’ Rock & Roll
• Smoosh Cookies
• Smooth Rider
• Smoothie Shack
• Southern Thang
• SWAT Food Truck
• Zuzu’s Chocolates

Celebrity Judges Include:
• Chef & Restaurateur Fabio Salerno of Lago
• Chef Kevin Wang of Sora
• Mayor Clough, City of Westlake
• Host of CLE Foodcast, Lisa Sands
• Blogger, Haley from Cleveland Bucket List
• Food Blogger, Nikki + Bailey, from CraveCLE
• Blogger, Karolina Ciepiel, Karolina State of Mind
• Senior Editor, Cleveland Magazine, Annie Nickoloff
• Co-Host of the “Q” Morning Show on Q104, Bill Ryan

Live Music:
• Cleveland’s Breakfast Club

The Food Truck Challenge sponsored by Serpentini of Westlake is free to the public and will also include live music, kid-friendly activities and vendors, plus the Express Train will be open for a fun ride around the park. Winners will be crowned in the eight categories beginning at 3:15pm by a panel of guest judges and local foodies.