One year, already? Thirteen times we’ve eaten the street since that first gathering on a Friday night on Kapiolani. That was just three months after Melt and Gogi Korean Tacos, the first of the new breed of tweeting, Facebooking trucks, hit the streets, and that first ETS, when 10 food trucks plus a couple of food booths opened on that tiny lot, we overwhelmed them. Lines wrapping around themselves, wall-to-wall people, every truck and booth sold out.
ETS was a phenom from hour one. The eatfest has grown with the local and national food truck craze and will mark the beginning of its second year this Friday as one of the biggest street food rallies in the country: 40 food trucks and food booths serving up grass-fed burgers, gourmet pizza, poke bowls, Belgian-style fries, barbecue fried chicken, frozen hot chocolate, bread pudding, hot fresh crepes and yes, fusion tacos.
Nonstop invited Eat the Street’s creator, Poni Askew, to look back at the baby year and give us a countdown of the best.
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Yeahhh, Poni! Congrats on one year! So proud to be even a small part of an event that's exploded from the get-go. What's awesome to me is that ETS has actually inspired people to start their own food trucks, knowing that they'd have an arena to bring their products to an eager crowd. Looking forward to seeing how ETS will continue to evolve in 2012!
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