Rathbone is organizing this year’s D.C. food truck festival. The Curbside Kickoff: Trucko De Mayo is at noon Saturday at RFK Stadium. You can catch Rathbone during the week selling grilled cheese and tomato soup out of his Big Cheese food truck.
So, why have a food truck festival?
To celebrate the food truck scene in D.C. It’s really taken off in the past few years, and we really wanted an event and a space that’s large enough to accommodate all of the DC Food Truck Association’s trucks. And this is our first Saturday event … so people can come out and be more leisurely and not on their lunch break and they don’t’ have to work the next day. We want to open it up to not only all of our core followers who come to us during the workweek but for the folks who are living in the suburbs who don’t get to enjoy food trucks on a regular basis.
What’s different about this year’s festival?
At this point, we have 35 trucks that have committed. … It’s an event on a much larger scale.
What are some of the events you have planned?
We’re going to have cornhole, and we’ll have bands doing covers and local bands doing some of their own original material throughout the day. We’re also planning on having the Rollergirls come by and do a demo.
What’s up with the food truck craze in D.C.?
I think a lot of it is the variety that food trucks offer. We rotate through different neighborhoods, and so on any given day someone who works in the area can walk out and have a choice of four or five options they didn’t have the day before.
– Courtney Zott
