LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- It's the first annual Food Truck Festival for mobile food vendors in Little Rock.
Today (October 1) from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Main Street will be full of mobile food from the 300 to 700 blocks. The festival will also have music and local arts and craft vendors.
It's all part of the the Main Street Revitalization program says Sharon Priest, executive director of Downtown Little Rock Partnership.
"They say you can't go back and maybe we can't but we can move forward," says Priest. "Getting people use to coming back to Main Street. Lots of things are happening and we're going to see a whole lot more in the future."
Mike Juliano, aka Hot Dog Mike, was happy to get on board with the Food Truck Festival.
"Main Street needs us and this is a really cool way to get people down here to see the potential," says Juliano.
Besides gourmet hot dogs from Hot Dog Mike, there will be Green Cuisine, Little Rock's only exclusively vegetarian food truck, popsicles from Le Pops and much more.
Food truck vendors and carts participating include:
Grills on Wheels
Banana Leaf
Christians Take-Out Too
Dream Eats Café Mobile Food
Green Cuisine
Hot Dog Mike
Kristina's Hawaiian Ice
Lewis & Edna's Mobile
Luncheria Mexicana Alicia
Papa's Burgers & Dogs
Peace Hog Mobile Café
Pierre's Gourmet Pizza
Wishbone's
Kwik Dawg Stop
Taqueria Jalisco San Juan
King Blvd.
Le Pops
Big Poppa's Mobile
The festival is sponsored by Downtown Little Rock Partnership and the Main Street Revitalization Committee. Key sponsors also include Little Rock Convention & Visitors Bureau (LRCVB), Central Arkansas Library System (CALS), Create Little Rock, and East-Harding.