Northbrook Court Hosts Food Truck Festival this Weekend

This coming Saturday, August 22nd, the food caravan moves back to the North Shore as the beautiful Northbrook Center mall plays host to a food carnival featuring the Greater Chicago area’s best food trucks, some of which appeared at The Taste of Chicago. The Northbrook Food Truck Festival’s roster features a mobile buffet, with an international flavor that combines sweet and savory culinary delights.

The food trucks that will encamp at the mall will offer food specialties that reflect divergent tastes and cultures and include:

- Yum Dum - Asian, specializing in steamed dumplings and baowiches
- Haute and Ready - High quality gourmet menu
- La Cocinita - Latin American street food
- 5411 Empanada - Argentinian empanadas and special sauces
- Beaver’s Donuts - Mini donuts with signature toppings

“Food truck festivals are starting to find their place in the public dining scene,” said Jeremy Baras, the C.E.O. of PopUp Republic, which organized the event. “Where else can you go to one location and have such an eclectic choice of fresh, delicious international street food, and at prices that are so affordable,” he said.

Baras said that shopping malls on weekends are ideal settings at which to hold a food truck festival. “Tens of thousands of shoppers frequent the major malls on weekends, so it’s great for the food truck proprietors. People are milling around, going from store to store, sometimes with families in tow. You get hungry, but may not want a full sit down meal. Food trucks are ideal solutions and offer whatever kind of food you are hungry for, from savory to sweet, from gourmet to global street food,” Baras said. “And this is a great chance to camouflage a visit to the mall by saying “Hey, let’s jump in the car and head off to a great food truck festival I heard about!”

The Northbrook Food Truck Festival is free to attend and takes place on Saturday, August 22nd from 12 to 4 pm. More information is available by writing to info@popuprepublic.com.