Food truck festival in Allston Brighton will be homecoming for company leading regional effort

By Matt Rocheleau, Town Correspondent

The Allston-based Food Truck Festivals of New England will host a homecoming of sorts this weekend.

The company’s Charles River Food Truck Festival will be held at Herter Park and Artesani Playground along Soldiers Field Road in the Allston-Brighton area of Boston on Saturday July 28 at 11 a.m., according to a press release.

The festival will include a variety of food, music and children’s activities, organizers said. Participating trucks are expected to serve sample portions as well as full meals.

Menus are expected to include lobster rolls, macaroni and cheese, grilled cheese, hot dogs, barbeque ribs, and desserts, according to the food truck festival company.

Attendees are invited to purchase "taste tickets," which are used like currency at the trucks, officials said.

Tickets can be bought in advance and at the event. Ten taste tickets cost $13. Twenty tickets cost $25. Thirty cost $37. Forty cost $48. There is no additional admission fee.

Participating trucks scheduled to partake include:

Bon Me
Boston Super Dog
Boston’s Baddest Burger Truck
Captain Marden's Cod Squad
Chubby Chickpea Mobile
Compliments Food Truck
Culinary Cruisers
Dining Car
Frozen Hoagies
Gabi’s Smoke Shack
Go Fish!
Grilled Cheese Nation
Kickass Cupcakes
Lobsta Love
Mei Mei Street Kitchen
Paris Creperie’s La Tour Eiffel
Redbones BBQ
Roxy’s Grilled Cheese
Shuckin’ Truck
The Happy Taco
The Whoo(pie) Wagon
Trolley Dogs
VeeBop’s Ice Cream

For more information about the Allston Brighton festival and about others this season, call 617-782-7117 or visit www.foodtruckfestivalsofne.com and nefoodtrucks.tumblr.com.

E-mail Matt Rocheleau at mjrochele@gmail.com.
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