The Trucks We Skipped

Although the Vendy tickets are for all-you-can-eat, we sadly did not get to sample food from every single vendor. In fact, we missed 8 of them, including 3 of the winners!

Trucks lined up
We got to the Vendys a little later than we had planned (completely exhausted that morning) so the lines for Souvlaki GR, Korilla BBQ and Solber Pupusas were really long. Although they seemed to be working quickly, more people kept joining the lines, so they stayed pretty long for most of the afternoon. Near the end of the food serving portion of the Vendys, the lines were somewhat shorter but by then, we were really full and couldn't think about eating more than a bite of each (and didn't want to waste such good food!). Luckily, we have been to all 3 trucks before. We'll just have to get Greek fries, Korean bbq and loroco pupusas another time!

Part of the Souvlaki GR line, one of the 3 longest lines there
Pupusa lines are longer than in Red Hook!
Instead of a photo of the Korilla line, here's their celebration after the awards
The reason we missed the Trini Paki Boys halal cart was a little sadder. One of their founders was sick and they had to miss the awards. We still gave them our people's choice votes since we love them. I went there for lunch on Friday in the pouring rain and got some chicken biryani for my Vendy nominee lunch week. We wish they could have made it to the awards, but most of all, we hope everything is OK.

My delicious chicken biryani lunch from Trini Paki Boys from Friday
Chimichury el Malecon ran out of food. On our first attempt, they were cooking for the judges. On our second attempt, we learned that they gave the remainder of their food to the judges. Didn't seem like great planning since they were out of food with another hour (at least) to go. Oh well. We really wanted to try it since we had never been before, but it didn't work out.

Empty Chimichury el Malecon
We missed out on the remaining 3 trucks because we were too full. We just couldn't think about eating a cupcake... even if it was a mini cupcake from Cupcake Crew. Two Pitas in a Pod had gigantic sampler plates and we were just too full (and also a little falafel-ed out after having both Taim and Sam's). And Eggstravaganza, the only midtown nominee I haven't eaten at for a regular lunch (I don't always react well to eggs, which I've mentioned before), was giving out half sandwiches which were too huge to contemplate eating at the end of our Vendy day. I'm sure all 3 were great, but we were unfortunately out of stomach space.

The cupcakes sounded so good, but no room left in our bellies
The extensive menu for Two Pitas in a Pod
Big sandwiches from Eggstravaganza
We did make it to 14 other vendors. Can't wait to tell you about them (in completely random order)!