Ottawa, CAN: Keep on Truckin’

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.

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

The new trucks and carts will add to the 44 street food vendors already licensed.

I’m very proud to say Ottawa is now a leader in terms of the food truck revolution

I was an ice-cream lover but now I’m a convert. Frozen yogurt is light, it’s not salty and rich like ice cream, it’s healthy and full of probiotics

Merry Dairy owner Marlene Haley speaks with satisfied customer Stephen Hayward as he tries the truck for the second time.

The trucks themselves are now full built-out kitchens. Some of these folks are expecting to do catering and other stuff .

The city has approved 11 new food trucks and 8 carts under a new street food program.
Ottawa’s food truck initiative began in earnest Friday, the deadline for applications for the city’s 20 new vendor licenses.

The most frustrating angle to Ottawa’s revamped street food vendor program is how city management likely doesn’t understand how they’re treating applicants.