Cupcakes for Lunch at the Evanston Food Truck Festival

On June 25, 2011, the Evanston Parks Coalition hosted the first Food Truck Festival in Grey Park. Exciting in its own right for foodies, the festival was a dress rehearsal for what the park can be, for me and my family it meant cupcakes for lunch!

I was thrilled see a city park packed with food trucks and hungry foodies in my new hometown and apparently so was everyone else - the event was packed. My family managed to eat from the Flirty Cupcakes truck but we didn’t last in the long lines for Hummingbird Kitchen and 5411 Empanada. 

We ordered a sample 4-pack of cupcakes from Flirty for just over $5 which included Devil In Disguise (Red Velvet Cupcake With Cream Cheese Frosting), Curious George (Banana Chocolate Cupcake With A Light, Salted Caramel Italian Buttercream Frosting), No Plain Jane (Vanilla Cupcake With An Italian Vanilla Buttercream Frosting) and The McDreamy (Chocolate Cupcake With A Cream Cheese & Chocolate Filling). By far our favorite cupcake was the Devil in Disguise and four mini cupcakes hit the spot. You can find out where the Flirty Cupcake food truck will be next by following them on Twitter and Facebook or for private parties and events, just visit their website. 

We didn't stay for free Zumba classes or the sing alongs as we came to eat! Congrats to everyone whoo helped put this on (full list below) and my only recommendation would be more food trucks next time, Evanston eaters will turn out.