I think this now might be Roaming Hunger First Festival of the 2014 season in Los Gatos: Food: Great People: Uptight Music: descent Facilities: very good Verdict: Right food, wrong crowd. Food trucks aren’t a festival, they’re just food. I’ve been to my share of food truck events. There’s Roaming Hunger, Moveable Feast, Off the Grid, and trucks at First Fridays in San Jose and Oakland, they come to wineries and breweries. I have no problem with the trucks. I love roach coach food. In fact that term has been smashed and now these chefs are pumping out gourmet food. The food trucks offered in Los Gatos tonight had Mexican, Chicken & Waffles, Ice Cream, BBQ, Sliders, Sausages, Korean lettuce wraps, even Lobster. I’ve never been to a food truck event where people treat it as a destination. Usually these events take place in a mall parking lot or at a festival. This particular one happens each week and they don’t have enough parking. Can you believe people drive to this thing? Ride a bike — I did. Usually these things are laid back, people looking for descent food for descent price. Los Gatos wanted to treat it like a wine tasting event. There’s bathrooms, which is great, and live music, but the food trucks in themselves are not a festival people! These are merely vehicles to get food to a festival. It’s just weird. People dressed up, lots of families, some couples and 20 somethings hitting it up before they go out — but for most people it looked like this WAS they’re Friday night of going out. Weird just weird. A dude in a ferrari hat that you know probably really owns a ferrari — go eat at a real restaurant you wanna be commoner. What a spanner! Unless these people start having a theme, like Oktoberfest, or Memorial Day or Beer Garden, or July 4th — it’s just a bunch of trucks in one spot, not a convenience while I shop the mall, or a place to grab a bite while I look at arts and crafts. Organized multi truck events belong as a support to real events, they are not in themselves events.
Dean B.
Tu valoración: 4 Campbell, CA
A very fun Friday evening, lots of different foods from the food trucks, tasty beers and live music. I just finished an order of pulled pork Hawaiian sliders and crunchy tater tots. Tonight the band is the Honey Wilders, who are pretty good. One downside is the parking situation, which gets impossible by 6:00pm. Get here early or forget about it.
Dee A.
Tu valoración: 2 San Jose, CA
Get here early if you don’t want to risk your life to eat off a food truck! Idk how long they’ve been holding this event at this particular location but the venue is WAYTOOSMALL to accommodate. I got here about 45 – 50 mins after it started & the lot was FULL. Some tween was flagging traffic away from the entrance as the lot was full & advising people to park across the street & walk across HWY9. If you’re feeling lucky & want to take on speeding cars feel free to stop by next Friday, IF you don’t get hit by car! I recommend they find a more suitable venue that can accommodate the capacity of these events…
Kim N.
Tu valoración: 4 South Bay, CA
I always drove by this hacienda place but never got to the place. I’ve still not yet been inside but was on the grounds for the Moveable Feast soft opening in Los Gatos. I like the spread: Bao & Bowl Bigg Shrimp’n Sam’s Chowdermobile Supertacos El Conrro Teh House Treatbot as the initiating crew. I talked to one of the organizers and he gave me some insight on how they get applications and how they reach out to folks. Im glad they keep trying to bring new owners into the fold and bring food to the masses. Keep up the good work guys
