Main Street Food Truck Festival
History nd Mission Statement :
Beginning
Downtown Little Rock Partnership began focusing on Main Street's vacant buildings and boarded up windows over 10 years ago when the Main Street Revitalization Task Force was formed. The Main Street Food Truck Festival was an idea created by the task force as a way to bring people back to Main Street and support Downtown Little Rock Partnership in the process. The Food Truck Festival was one of many great ideas that successfully worked to revitalize Main Street into a bustling, active downtown community. The Food Truck Festival has grown each year and now attracts tens of thousands of attendees from all over the region to downtown Little Rock.
Growing
Since the festival began, numerous businesses have made the Main Street Creative Corridor their home. The list includes Samantha's Tap Room & Wood Grill, Bruno's Italian Restaurant, Brewski's Pub & Grub, Allsopp and Chapple, CJRW, Waymack and Crew, and A.W. Lin's, Ballet Arkansas, Cranford Co., the Little Rock Technology Park, Three Fold, The Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Handle Barbershop, and others.
Awards
Main Street Food Truck Festival was listed as one of the "Top 10 Best Food Truck Festivals in the United States" by online magazine vacationidea.com. The Festival received numerous Arkansas Festival & Events Association ALFIE awards, including 2018 Festival of the Year. Arkansas Times readers voted MSFTF to the list of "Top Food Festivals in Arkansas." And in 2017, the Main Street Food Truck Festival was named an official "Southern Travel Treasure" by AAA Southern Traveler.
