MN Food Truck Rally

13/07/2023

What a great day .odiliachurch with and

12/07/2023

at .odiliachurch

27/08/2022

Hamline Midway Coalition is treating you to ice cream! And supporting their neighborhood ice cream truck!
Hope to see you Tuesday!

16/07/2022

Face painting

07/07/2022

Geancarlos Pujols receives his food from Casey O’Brien June 29 at St. Odilia Catholic Church in Shoreview during a weekly summer event called Food Truck Wednesdays. O’Brien was offering a food truck at Maternity of MMSA Catholic School in St. Paul on Thursdays, then expanded to include St. Odilia after reaching out to let the school and parish know. Kelli Schmitz, chair of the Parent Action Association at St. Odilia, has been coordinating the event at St. Odilia since the first one took place June 1. “It’s been a big hit; a lot of people are really excited about it,” said Schmitz, who has two children at the school. The goal was to bring together students and their families with parishioners at St. Odilia who don’t have children at the school, as a way to “bridge some of the divide in our community between the parish and the school,” she said. Pujols moved to Shoreview a month ago and lives across the street from the school, which he is exploring as a place to send his 5-year-old daughter. “This is our first time over here,” said Pujols, who also has a younger child he might enroll at St. Odilia in the future. “We’ve seen the signs (for Food Truck Wednesdays) and we see the kids after school all the time, so we just came over to check it out.” Three food trucks come to St. Odilia every Wednesday and begin serving food at 5 p.m. An estimated 250 people came June 29 to the trucks, called Gray Duck Concessions, LLC (where O’Brien works on Wednesdays and Thursdays), Steven D's (owned and operated by an alumnus of St. Odilia Catholic School) and Tii Cup. DAVE HRBACEK | THE CATHOLIC SPIRIT

15/06/2022

I love selling ice cream for a living..but I love giving away ice cream even more. Every single one of you who supports my business makes it possible for me to do that.
Yesterday, because it was so hot, I decided to go downtown to treat all the people outside and around Catholic Charities to ice cream.
When word got out that I did that, some very kind people sent me money to help cover the cost of my missions to spread ice cream love. So now I have some extra money to cover the costs of even more ice cream this coming week as the heat dome hovers.
My heart is so full and I can't thank you all enough!

10/06/2022

27/05/2022

25/05/2022

Fridays are for and each week Maplewood Hy-Vee will be hosting a few of best. This week 11-7

16/05/2022

Friday nights are for food trucks and this Week Rollin nolens bbq and Gray Duck Concessions, LLC will at our location at Hy-Vee in Maplewood. Come back each week for new trucks and events!
5-8pm each Friday night.https://fb.me/e/ernlU2TUk

17/02/2022

We are starting to plan for the summer food truck season and getting very excited thinking of all the great food we had at Maternity of Mary Church last year. What was some of your favorite foods from last year and who do you hope to see again this summer at Food Truck Thursdays?

20/09/2021

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02/09/2021

Meet Papa Epp!
He is a professional artist who started around the age of 9. He draws, sculpts,woodburns, you name it, and he can do it all free hand. No lasers no paterns. And he does Caricatures w/Dignity. Where he draws You as You. More of a portraiture! In 5 mins or under!
Sept 2, 4-8 pm at Food truck Thursdays.

29/07/2021

These guys are amazing and playing tonight live at Maternity of Mary Church. They offered to play for free and we hope you could take a look at their kickstarter. They are putting their first album together and need support. If you’re in a position to help , the link below or they are also excepting tips tonight while playing.

The Blue Ox Jazz Trio will be recording an album of original music in August, 2021 to be released this coming fall.

15/07/2021

Face painting tonight. Jazz music. Beautiful night

06/07/2021

This week we are highlighting a sweet new truck that launched this year, Santana’s Sugar Shack. It is owned and operated by Santana Rivera, who has some of the sweetest treats out there.
Santana has worked in the restaurant industry for the last fifteen years, but found herself with some extra free time when 2020 hit the restaurant industry with Covid-19. So she started making candy bouquets for friends and family. Then started getting requests for candy bouquets and turned it into a business. Originally, Santana wanted to open a candy store, but was hesitant because of the pandemic. She wanted to create an experience for kids of all ages who grew up going to carnivals and local fairs where they made cotton candy right in front of you and you could see them put flavors on the snow cones. She invested her time and savings in this sweet idea, driven by her entrepreneurial spirit.
Santana’s Sugar Shack launched this past June and already has had rave reviews. The Sugar Shack isn’t only sweet, but savory. The menu includes walking tacos, chili dogs, hot dogs, beef nachos and more. “The Banana cotton candy is my favorite and one of the best sellers,” Santana said, but that’s not all.
Santana’s Sugar Shack has 8 flavors of cotton candy, snow cones, soda floats, and popcorn.
Santana said she still is working on creating her storefront candy shoppe, but thinks adding a second truck is very likely as well.
Santana’s Sugar Shack hits that nostalgia for the old fashioned candy and treats that we all grew up with and want to share with our children.

Santana’s Sugar Shack will be at Food Truck Thursdays at Maternity of Mary Church 7/8/21

15/06/2021

Trickster Tacos LLC
When we first started reaching out to food trucks and asking them to be a part of Food Truck Thursdays, we were very excited when Trickster Tacos responded. They launched just last year 2020, but grew quickly in popularity. Just three week after launching they were featured in the Star tribune as the next state fair truck. As a result they had to scale up faster than they expected, but it was no problem for this trio. Trickster Taco is owned and operated by Mariah Grant, husband Dakota Grant, and brother Nicholas Timmerman. Dakota is an enrolled tribal member of the Omaha Tribe in Macy Nebraska where he lived with his grandfather learning the family’s traditional frybread recipe. When his grandfather passed away Dakaota took on the role of frybread master in his family making it for all the special family occasions.
Mariah owns an insurance agency and has specialized in the food truck industry since 2016. The Idea for Trickster Taco came after a trip to Tocabe in Denver, and they talked about what a fry bread truck would look like and serve different native communities.
They knew they had a unique family recipe that many people loved. So for the next few years they started playing with toppings. Trickster Tacos’ menu includes their version (a little healthier) of the traditional beef Indian taco, but also offers options that have been inspired by their travels across the United States. Their best seller is the Baja Cali steak taco. It is a marinated steak topped with cheddar cheese spring mix, fresh garden salsa, and a spicy avocado sauce. They also use spring mix instead of lettuce for the nutrients and they also offer taco salads for a healthier option. They change up the salsa’s seasonally, offering a sweet corn and radish salsa or mango salsa, but offer a delicious fresh garden salsa year round. Mariah said one of her favorites is the chicken taco with spicy mango sauce for a sweet heat.
In the future they hope to open a second truck and continue to focus on native communities and events like tribal meetings, pow wows, indigenous events, graduation ceremonies and more.
We are certainly grateful to have you at Food Trucks Thursdays for the next two weeks. You can find Trickster Taco at
MMSA 4-8pm 6/17 with Kevin’s Gyros and Gray Duck Concessions, or
MMSA 4-8pm 6/24 with KCM Eggrolls and Gray Duck Concessions.

10/06/2021

It’s hot, but still having a good time!!

10/06/2021

Nicole Stanton Live.

09/06/2021

Kennys Meatball Wagon
This week we’re highlighting a new truck that launched this year, Kenny’s Meatball Wagon. It’s owned by three high school friends Chad Knudson, Jim, and John Stone. Jim, along with wife Melanie Stone and Andrea Uysin own Sweet Taste of Italy in Brooklyn Park. Originally in Crystal, MN and Brooklyn Park, but the property owners closed the Crystal location and with Covid the friends decided to take the restaurant on the road in Kenny’s Meatball Wagon.
It was named in honor of Kenny, the original owner of LaGondola, who hired Jim and mentored Jim for many years even after he took over the restaurant in 2000. Sadly, Kenny lost his battle with cancer in 2019, during the process of building the truck, and so the truck was named in his honor.
The menu on Kenny’s Meatball Wagon takes the best recipes and customer favorites from the restaurant that can be made quickly without long wait times. Chad (owner) said his favorite item by far is the chicken cord and bleu! What makes it unique is the amazing honey mustard sauce drizzled over it.
Just a few of the items on the menu include, Hot Sicilian Dunker, Sausage, Peppers and Onion Sandwich, Turkey Torpedo, and of course, Meatball Sandwich– served on garlic cheese bread. They also have meatball on a stick, or Spaghetti 🍝 with Garlic Cheese Bread. They even have popular Italian desserts.

In his down time, Chad is an avid skydiver, but says that as a group they all love to travel and hope to vacation this winter after their first season on the food truck.
They hope to get out to as many events as they can this year, and hope to build a second truck in the future and get in the state fair.
You can find Kenny’s Meatball Wagon at Food Truck Thursdays June 10th, along with Gray Duck Concessions, D & D Goodies, and with live music from Nicole Stanton.
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04/06/2021

04/06/2021

What a great first night! Beautiful weather and it was wonderful to see the community out and interacting again! Hope to see you next week with more great food and live music 🎶

02/06/2021

We wanted to highlight the food trucks supporting our events and share some info you may otherwise not have known about them. The first food truck spotlight is a new truck that launched last summer in 2020, and has grown to be one of the favorites in one of the most popular menu categories — Gyros.
Kevin’s Gyros is owned and operated by Kevin Tarnowski. At ten years old, Kevin began working for a close family friend washing dishes at the gyro stand at the MN Renaissance Festival. He continued to work there each season for many years until the business retired from the festival and Kevin was able to continue the family recipes with his own business. Kevin’s Gyros launched part time out of a tent at festivals around the Twin Cities, but after a couple of years of success and demand for his gyros he went full time in 2020.
Kevin’s Gyros is based out of Elk River, but they travel all over the twin Cities. For more details on where and when to find Kevin’s delicious Gyros, follow the page for details.

Kevin’s Gyros offers a beef/lamb gyro or chicken gyro with tomato, onion, pepper, and topped of course with home made tzatziki sauce. They also offer a mediterranean salad choice of meat. They even offer a gluten free option without the pita bread.
For sides they offer seasoned french fries or cheese curds.
Thank you Kevin for coming to Food Truck Thursdays at MMSA

01/06/2021

The weather looks good for this Thursday and we are looking forward to finally kicking off food truck Thursdays!
This week June 3rd we’re hosting D&D Goodies Gray Duck Concessions, LLC and Kevin’s Gyros.
We will be highlighting each of the food trucks each week leading up to Thursdays event.

20/05/2021

Looks like a fun night

The 2020-2021 school year has been like no other, but we can bring back one of our fun traditions, the end of the school year bonfire. All current MMSA families are invited to join us on the last day of school, Thursday, June 10 at 6:30 p.m. for a bonfire in the playground area. Visit MMSA Food Truck Thursday starting at 4:00 p.m. and stay for the bonfire at 6:30 p.m. There will also be a live music performance by Nicole Stanton.

27/03/2021