Seasonal & Holidays
Monmouth Park Racetrack To Host Jersey Shore Truck Festival On Memorial Day Weekend In Eatontown
Roughly 45 trucks are expected to attend, family fun activities are also planned.
Foodies take notice. It will be hard to pass up Monmouth Park's Jersey Shore Food Truck Festival over Memorial Day weekend.
The event will feature 45 trucks serving everything from fresh-made empanadas, lobster rolls fresh from the ocean and gooey Belgian Waffle sundaes.
The festival will have a special opening time of 11 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday to give visitors more time to sample the offerings. The gates will open at 11:30 a.m. on Monday. The festival will run to the end of live racing each day, which is roughly 5:30 p.m.
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Live music will be featured each day. On Saturday, Rockin' Thunder 106.3 FM will presents After the Reign, followed by Nashville recording artists Jacob Davis. Brent & Co. will perform from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday and the Pez Head Trio will play on stage 2. The Rory Daniels Band will perform on Monday.
Monmouth Park will also offer free family fun activities on Saturday and Sunday, including clowns, face painting, pony rides and a bounce house
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Check out the Food Truck Festival menu here and the list of food trucks below.
Amanda Bananas, Ann's Catering, Aunt DeeDee's, Bro-Ritos Food Truck, Cheezen, Chimney Cake Factory, Cold Stone on Wheels, Dags Dippers, Dark Side of the Moo, Dellano's Food Service, Dump N Roll, El Lechon de Negron, Empanada Guy, Enzo's Pizza, Falafull, Five Sisters Food Co., Fork in the Road, Four Boys Concessions, Good Food = Good Mood, House of Cupcakes, Jersey Johnny's, JerZey EatZ, Madame Pearl's, Maddalena's Cheescake, Mobile Mardi Gras, Oink and Moo BBQ, Philly Fry, Pizza Vita, Pompier Pierogi Flats, Red Hook Lobster Pound, Shore Good Eats, Star of the Sea Seafood, Sur fand Turf Truck, Tacoholics, The Cow and The Curd, The Flying Pie Guy, The Little Sicilian Riceballs, The Tasty Trolley, Tony's Italian Sausage, Toum Food Truck, and Waffle De Lys.
The Grandstand Admission and General Park admission is $5. Children 12 and under are free. No pets allowed.
Image: Courtesy of Monmouth Park Racetrack
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