Mid-Continent Public Library hosts food truck face-off on Friday

Local lovers of food-truck cuisine will have the opportunity to taste the signature dishes of four Kansas City food trucks on Friday, June 5, and vote on their favorite vendor from the participating vehicles when the Mid-Continent Public Library and the Ennovation Center of Independence present a Food Truck Face-Off in the parking lot of the Roasterie at 1204 West 27th Street.

“Patrons can buy a ticket at the gate for $35,” says Morgan Perry, the library’s business specialist, “which entitles them to four half-servings, one from each of the trucks. We’ll have representatives from Cinder Block Brewery and the Rock & Run Brewery sharing beer samplings.”

The event will run from 4:40 to 8 p.m., and the participating food trucks will be the Bochi truck, offering stuffed chicken wings (“Bochi sounds Asian,” Perry says, “but it stands for boneless chicken”), Cheeesy Pops’ Pizza, Plantain District and the Pie Hole, which specializes in baking and selling Australian meat pies.

The event is the culmination of a six-week “Business of Food Trucks” course hosted by the Mid-Continent Public Library and organized/taught by Brandon Simpson, owner of Jazzy B’s food truck.