Reminder: Food Truck Festival today

Above: Southborough Rotary coordinates food trucks for a 4-part community “festival” each spring. Here’s a peek at tonight’s offerings. (images top row by Beth Melo, scroll down for credits on food vendor offerings in bottom row*)

Last week, the Rotary Club of Southborough brought back its popular Food Trucks series. The “Festival” will continue this afternoon and evening — with a gorgeous forecast — and for the following two Wednesdays. Here’s my refresher on the details.

On Wednesdays through June 11, attendees can head downtown to purchase snacks, dinner, dessert, ice cream and more from visiting food trucks. The trucks are scheduled for 3:30 pm to 7:00 pm.

The vendors park on St. Mark’s School’s downtown field at the corner of Routes 85 & 30. (For more details on the vendors, scroll down.)

Rotary’s main purpose for organizing the annual festival is as a feel good, community event — with no admission fee. But, as usual, they will also use it as a platform for a charitable initiative.

The Fundraiser

They are partnering again with Main Street Bank to incentivize donations to a good cause.

This year’s fundraising/collection has been selected in honor of a hometown initiative that they recently honored two residents for founding. They will be collecting funds for a Pine Hill Meadow Farm Benefit. (To read more about how volunteers use the Pine Hill Meadow Garden to grow and harvest food to be donated to food programs helping people in need, click here..

Main Street Bank will generously provide a $10 voucher for each $20 donation made to the fundraiser. Vouchers can be used to make a purchase at any of the food trucks. Visit Rotary’s table at the festival for more information and to purchase a voucher (or just make a donation).

Enjoying the Festival

There will be a few tables put out for the public to use. But most families take advantage of the grassy field, using picnic blankets and/or chairs.

Below are a few photos I took in 2023 & 2024:

There are no rain dates posted for the event. I’ve been told in the past years that events are rain or shine, but I’m guessing that’s within reason. (If weather for one of these events is forecast for torrential rain/thunder for the entire three hours, I’d look for news on cancellation/postponement.)

The Food Vendor Lineup

Here is the planned food vendor lineup for the remainder of the series. (Note: Sometimes there are last minute cancellations or adjustments):

*(Food images cropped from Facebook posts by food truck vendors:: L-R Anzio’s Pizza, The Dogfather, Potato Potato, Travelin’ Bones, and Sugarcane Hut)