Mulund resident Ronil Boricha seems to have heard our prayers, since he is organising the Mumbai Food Truck Festival in the eastern suburb this weekend

Whenever we watch Jon Favreau’s 2014 movie Chef, we always wish for someone to organise a food truck festival in the pleasant winters of this city. And Mulund resident Ronil Boricha seems to have heard our prayers, since he is organising the Mumbai Food Truck Festival (MFTF) in the eastern suburb this weekend.

“I wanted to open a food truck. Somehow, this led me to work on MFTF. We [a team of 22 people] took less than a month to organise it. Since I live in Mulund, we picked the suburb as the venue,” says the 24-year-old organiser. Boricha tells us that their first target was to procure all the licences and permissions (a nagging problem that troubled Bandra’s food truck park), which was relatively easy as the festival is a two-day affair.

This weekend, park yourself in Lower Parel and savour street-eats at the first food truck fest Mumbai will host

If you happen to drop by High Street Phoenix at Lower Parel over the coming weekend, you’d be forgiven for believing that you are part of the TV show, Eat Street. Like the popular series, where host James Cunningham tucks into yummy fare from restaurant-on-wheels, you, too, can savour street eats from over 10 food trucks parked in the mall’s courtyard.

They’ll be part of Food Truck Square, touted as the city’s first food truck festival. The two-day event has been co-curated by Ashish Sajnani of Opa Hospitality (that owns Bombay Food Truck) and Ronak Rajani of Mumbai Foodie. Both are the founding members of The Food Truck Association (TFTA). (Click here to read more about Bombay Food Truck).

What’s on offer?
From Mexican and Lebanese eats to American gourmet sandwiches, global fusion fare, healthy salads, smoothies, cookies and ice creams, there’s lots to try at the fest.