Picture this, it’s a warm summer night, and you don’t feel like cooking at home. Do you order takeout, or do you go to a restaurant? Recently, a big trend in the culture of the restaurants in Vancouver has been the introduction of food trucks, and the explosion that we’ve had in the city.

When you think of going out, you think of a restaurant. A place where you’re seated, you are tended to by a server, your food is brought out to you, and you were waited on for your meal. For food trucks, it’s a completely different experience

instead of having to make a choice for a group of people to go to 1 restaurant that everyone can agree to, at a place that’s easy for everyone to go to, you can instead go to multiple food trucks where everyone can get what they want to eat, and pick where you want to eat as well. It doesn’t have to be near the food truck, but instead anywhere that you’d want to eat.

A Mexican food truck in Vancouver (Credit: Scott Cutler via Flickr)

Do you want to eat at the beach? You can do that. Do you want to eat at a park? You can do that as well the only limitation of where you can eat the food that you purchase is your imagination. It gives you the freedom of choice and flexibility instead of having to spend an hour or more sitting at a table at a restaurant.

if you’re worried about the quality of food, you don’t have to. thanks to the food scene, and the culture of people looking for good restaurants to eat at, finding a new place to eat that will become your new favorite spot is not hard to do.

this experience also matches up with the nomadic lifestyle and culture of Vancouver. People that like to work from home, from coffee shops, to park benches as well, this new Ave. has allowed people to find foods that they are looking for that matches both their budget and lifestyle as well.

will this new trend in the food culture of Vancouver with food trucks being everywhere replace restaurants? Absolutely not. Is it an option that is needed or welcomes by the population here? Absolutely yes.

if you’re looking for places to find for food trucks to go try, streetfoodapp website. It’s a dedicated website and map that shows what is open, where they are and what they serve. You can find a link to it here.