On Saturday October 18, the fourth annual Vendy Awards cook-off will determine NYC’s top street vendor. The event sounds like a good time, with all-you-can-eat “street meat” and “street sweets” and an open bar—plus it supports The Street Vendor Project of the Urban Justice Center, which sticks up for street vendors’ rights.
Here are the nominees who will face off:
• Rafael Soler from Soler Dominican
• Mohammed Rahman from Kwik Meal
• Fauzia Abdur-Rahman from Heavenly Delights
• Meru Sikder from Biriyani Cart
• The Vendley Brothers (Jesse, Brian, Dave) from Calexico Carne Asada
Tickets and more info are available here.
And if you are looking for recommendations (or want to share your own), Chowhounds seem to be especially passionate about their favorite street eats.
Editors: The chowhound thread, http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/230102 , linked in the blog entry initiated in 2006 and the most recent post was in January 2007. Isn’t it a little silly to link to info that’s two to three years old?!? If you want to highlight chowhounds’ passion, at least make it current as up-to-the-minute reporting is the strength of the site. There are hundreds of new discussion threads to select if you know how to use the search engine — I suggest you try again.
Here’s the chowhound discussion of the 2007 Vendy Awards,
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/446152