Howell Mill Food Park

It has been a big week for Food Trucks in Atlanta..first the filming of the Great Food Truck Race came to town followed by the opening of Howell Mill Food Park on Tuesday night. Within days of launching their facebook page, the Howell Mill Food Park has over 2000 fans. If that isn't sign enough that Atlanta was overdue for the food truck scene to hit, the crowds at the inaugural Food Park opening sure were.


The Howell Mill Food Park is an empty gravel lot where food trucks congregate on Tuesday nights from now on starting at 6pm. It is a great way to taste food from many trucks. The crowds were quite large and lines could be long but the experience was great and it was wonderful to see so many people supporting the effort.

We sampled many things including the Bahn Mi from Munch

A slaw dog from the Pup Truck

Delicously spicy tamales from the Tamale Queen

Carne Asada quesadillas from Tex's Tacos

And Salted Chocolate Popsicles from the King of Pops

The best thing we did was to bring our kids a couple of chairs as seating is sparse.


I hope that Howell Mill Food Park is here to stay. Parking is a bit tough but worth the effort. And I really hope that in the coming weeks my favorite truck, The Good Food Truck, will be there and the Fry Guy, who I have been dying to try out.

Chasing After Cupcakes

We've heard tales of the giant pink cupcake truck around town...another addition to Atlanta's growing food truck scene. We signed up on the Yum Yum Cupcake facebook page to get notifications as to when and where they can be found.


Last Friday, we got a message that the Yum Yum Cupcake truck would be parked at Atlantic Station. This was our chance. I told the kids we were going somewhere special and that they needed to look for something big and pink. We parked our car and paid the meter and walked around a bit so they had to keep hunting. Finally they spotted the truck and instantly knew there was a sweet surprise in their immediate future.



Delaney chose chocolate cake with chocolate butter cream icing wonderfully named "The Chanel".

Ford chose red velvet cake with cream cheese icing and I chose the carrot cake option.

All the cupcakes were delicious and we didn't leave a crumb behind. But all three of us agreed that we liked the carrot cake the best of all. We can't wait to get our next opportunity to visit the Yum Yum truck.