Category archives for: Canada

Toronto, CAN: Toronto’s Street Food ‘Provincial’ Compared to Other Cities

(QMI AGENCY PHOTO)

Torontonians want to end the delays that prevent food carts and trucks from selling from streets and parks so they can enjoy diverse street food this summer

Ontario, CAN: Food Trucks Roll into Niagara-on-the-Lake

Sandra and Lloyd Smith of St. Catharines receive meals from Kristy Rosenberg of the Rome 'N Chariot food truck at the Food Truck Eats event at Peller Estates Winery Saturday, May 18, 2013.

NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE – The trucks rolled in and gave Lou Appel a taste of a different flavour of Niagara-on-the-Lake.

Toronto, CAN: Group Wants City to Approve More Diverse Food Carts

Food Forward Toronto wants more food selection on the streets. (Peter McCluskey/CBC)

A lobby group called Food Forward Toronto wants the city to relax the rules a little and let more and different foodsellers onto the streets.

Toronto, CAN: Advocacy Group Hands Out Fruit in Front of City Hall to Protest Limits on Toronto Food Trucks

Food truck worker Ronald Cockburn waits for lunchtime customers at the All Class Mobile Kitchen near the corner of Queen Street East and Jarvis Street in Toronto, Monday afternoon, June 25, 2012.
(Aaron Lynett / National Post files)

It’s a matter of red tape and overmanaging this… I think it speaks to how antiquated some of our rules are. It’s 2013; puritan Toronto rears its ugly head again. Let’s just get over ourselves and open it up to these entrepreneurs

Saskatoon, CAN: Concerns About Washrooms for Food Truck Patrons Raised

Saskatoon is getting closer to regulation of food trucks like the ones seen here in Austin, Texas.
Photograph by: Keith Morgan , PNG

Saskatoon’s food trucks will be able to operate in commercial districts, but not in residential neighbourhoods

Calgary, CAN: Food Truck Review Could Bring More Street Eats to Calgary

Customers line up outside the Perogy Boyz food truck last summer in this file photo.

The food truck pilot project is drawing to a close after beginning in August 2011, and city officials have drafted a bylaw that would allow more trucks to launch as soon as August of this year.

Ottawa, CAN: Keep on Truckin’

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I had no idea how many trucks were coming to Ottawa until I started looking at your articles on the website (ottawacitizenstyle.com). You got like a crazy number.

Ottawa, CAN: Showdown at the Eat Street corral

These are good times for omnivores in Ottawa!

Ottawa City Hall is a place, I suspect, where politicians are more accustomed to circling wagons than food trucks.

Toronto, CAN: BlogTO Releases iPhone App to Track Down Toronto’s Food Trucks

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The locally-designed app allows frequenters of Toronto’s now-famous and ubiquitous food trucks to locate their favourite cuisine, be it cupcakes or tacos, across the city.

Ontario, CAN: Gourmet Food Truck Rolls into Sudbury’s Downtown

Sudbury's first gourmet food truck, co-owned by Natalie Lefebvre, will roll into the city's downtown this weekend. (CBC)

In some cities food trucks operators are accused of stealing business, not paying property taxes