New Food Truck Schedule: Food Truck Tracking April 2012 Update

Our Friday link is to the new schedule and new locations for food trucks approved by the City of Boston and set to begin on April 1, 2012. On Sunday, it won't be an April fools joke if you can't find your favorite food truck in its usual place. Here are links to the city's information, including a schedule and map of approved locations.

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And, don't forget the food truck sites in our neighboring cities like Cambridge and Brookline. 

The folks at Roaming Hunger aggregate the tweets from Boston area food trucks so you can see who is out and about and what they're tweeting.

If you know of other maps and schedule locators, let us know and we'll add them to this collection.

And, remember, if you're going out of your way to find a certain truck, you should check their twitter feed, facebook, and web pages. These guys are always dancing, trying to make a living, so they may have a catering gig or they may have run out of food. Lots of them give out phone numbers so you can call ahead to check on their status.

What are your favorite food trucks, and where do you find them?

If you know of other maps and schedule locators, let us know and we'll add them to this collection.

How do you find great food when you travel? We highly recommend the book from our pals over at Serious Eats. Here are some references for great Road Food.

 

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Words: Penny & Ed Cherubino
Photos: © 2011 Penny Cherubino

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  1. Toby Avatar

    Hi Penny & Ed,
    I think you might like my iPhone app for finding the Boston trucks: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/street-food-boston/id495605911?ls=1&mt=8
    It’s updated daily with the latest hours, closures, etc. Enjoy!
    Toby

  2. Penny Avatar

    Hi, Toby,
    We just downloaded the app to our phones and will give a good work out in the next couple of weeks. Question, are you showing who is scheduled or do you have some way of knowing if the truck is actually at the location?

  3. Toby Avatar

    Hi Penny
    Thanks for checking out the app. I’ll have all of the new schedules in there very soon – hopefully by the end of the day.
    I work as closely as I can with the trucks to find out their real schedules, I monitor their Twitter feeds, and they all have access to a website where they can keep it up to date. There are “Report Inaccurate Schedule” buttons in various places in the app so when people do find a mistake I can correct it as soon as possible. I do my best to make sure it’s reliable. Would love to know how accurate you find it to be.
    In the next update to the app, due out in a week or so, the truck owners are getting some great new tools to keep it up to date: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=StreetFoodApp&search=tag
    Toby

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