Best Food Trucks in Minneapolis

The original Minneapolis food truck, operating for over 14 years and still setting the standard. Gastrotruck is a gastropub on wheels — think sliders, crudo, creative tacos, and seasonal specials made with locally sourced ingredients. All sauces and condiments are made from scratch. Owners Stephen and Catherine have expanded to three trucks, a brick-and-mortar restaurant (Carbon Kitchen & Market), and an event venue, all in NE Minneapolis. When people talk about Minneapolis food trucks being more than just fair food, Gastrotruck is the truck they’re thinking of. Find them at brewery taprooms, corporate events, and weddings across the metro.

The only wood-fired Neapolitan pizza truck in the Twin Cities, and it lives up to the hype. A 2,500-pound oven rides in the truck, cooking pizzas at 800–1,000 degrees in 60–90 seconds. The dough is long-fermented 00 flour, the ingredients are local and organic, and the results are legitimately great pizza — not great-for-a-food-truck pizza, just great pizza. You’ll find Tru Pizza at breweries, farmers markets, corporate events, and the occasional wedding. When you see the truck, get in line. The margherita is the move.

Hola Arepa started as a food truck in 2011 and became so beloved that it spawned a brick-and-mortar restaurant in the Kingfield neighborhood. The original truck still sits in the restaurant’s parking lot at 3501 Nicollet Ave, and the kitchen serves Venezuelan-style stuffed arepas, Latin American small plates, and tropical craft cocktails. Chef Christina Nguyen’s arepas — crispy corn cakes stuffed with slow-roasted pork, black beans, or seasonal fillings — are the platonic ideal of food-truck-to-restaurant success. The truck is the origin story; the restaurant is the happy ending.

Chef Shack has been rolling through Minneapolis for 20 years — two decades of organic, seasonal street food from chefs Carrie Summer and Lisa Carlson, who brought fine-dining experience from New York and San Francisco kitchens to a food truck. The mini donuts are legendary, the Indian tacos are inventive, and everything is made with ingredients that would satisfy the most exacting farmers-market shopper. Find them at the Mill City Farmers Market on Saturday mornings, at events around the city, and occasionally at their Bay City, Wisconsin restaurant. The trucks winter in a barn and emerge each spring like the first crocus.

Bad Rooster is what happens when a chef and a farmer team up to build a food truck. Owners Soulaire Allerai and Terry McCabe source humanely raised chicken from Minnesota farms, hand-bread the tenders, grill the sandwiches to order, and offer 14 scratch-made sauces ranging from sweet to the ominously named “Out of Your Cluckin’ Mind.” The Mother Clucker sandwich and the crispy waffle fries are the standard order. Winner of the 2025 Quality Business Award for best caterer in Minnetonka. Find them at Utepils, corporate events, and festivals across the metro.

British hand pies on the streets of Minneapolis — and they’re the real thing. Alec and Fiona Duncan (Fiona is from Manchester) make proper Cornish-style pasties with minced beef, carrots, potatoes, and onion baked in a golden crust. The sausage roll with house-made Sicilian sausage is excellent, and the Thai vegetable pasty with red coconut curry sauce proves they’re not afraid to stretch the genre. The truck is a regular at Utepils and brewery taprooms; there’s also a storefront at 1828 Como Ave SE and a location in St. Paul. A food truck serving pasties shouldn’t work this well in Minnesota, but it does.

Operating since 2015, Habanero Tacos started in the Longfellow neighborhood and became so popular it expanded to a brick-and-mortar at 3223 E Lake Street (plus a St. Paul location). The truck still rolls, and it’s a regular on Nicollet Mall’s food truck row and at brewery taprooms across the city. The tacos are authentic and unfussy — carne asada, al pastor, carnitas — with fresh garnishes and a signature sweet habanero salsa that adds heat without overwhelming the filling. When you want no-frills, excellent street tacos from a truck, this is the one.

Jonathan and Hang Jauquet launched Banh Sizzle in 2020 to bring Vietnamese street food to Minneapolis farmers markets, and the city was immediately smitten. The signature dish is the banh xeo — a crispy savory crepe made from rice flour and coconut milk, filled with your choice of traditional or vegan fillings, wrapped in fresh herbs and lettuce. Everything is made in front of you with bold flavors and copious fresh herbs. Find them at the Mill City Farmers Market, the Linden Hills Farmers Market (May–October), and at events around the city. The kind of food truck that makes you rethink what a farmers market lunch can be.

Sandra Presley-Patterson’s truck is a one-woman comfort food operation that covers an impressive range: BBQ roasted pork sandwiches, buttermilk fried chicken sandwiches, grilled tilapia fish tacos, and the Knockout Chicago Dog (named after her uncle-in-law, boxer Floyd Patterson). In summer, she adds a full Italian ice menu with flavors from cherry and lemon to guava and coconut. Find Sandy’s on Food Truck Row downtown, at Cub Foods on West Broadway, and at events across North and Downtown Minneapolis. The truck has real personality — the kind of food truck where the owner remembers your name.

A grilled cheese truck that takes its ingredients as seriously as a farm-to-table restaurant. Wisconsin cheese, Minnesota bread, and produce sourced from local farmers markets. The Curious Goat parks in front of Modist Brewing Company in the North Loop, operating Thursday through Sunday, and the pairing of a creative grilled cheese with a Modist beer is unreasonably satisfying. The menu rotates seasonally, and the specials are worth ordering. This is not a kids’ lunch grilled cheese — it’s a proper, melty, crusty, Wisconsin-cheddar-on-Minnesota-sourdough experience.

A family-owned BBQ operation that started tailgate-style with a large smoker in 2016 and has grown into two fully equipped food trucks plus a brick-and-mortar at Midtown Global Market (opened November 2025). The brisket is the star — slow-smoked with house-made rubs and sauces passed down through generations. Pulled pork, ribs, wings, loaded fries, and vegan options (plant-based burgers, cauliflower bites) round out a menu that covers more ground than most BBQ joints. The Midtown Global Market location means you can now get Rollin Nolen’s year-round, but catching the truck at a summer event still hits different.

Owner Thabt Mohamed brings Egyptian-born flavors to the Twin Cities streets with gyros, falafel, kebabs, and Mediterranean wraps. The lamb gyro is the signature — well-seasoned, generously portioned, and served with a tahini sauce that ties everything together. Pharaoh’s is a regular on the food truck festival circuit and at downtown lunch spots. The portions are large, the prices are fair, and the food has the kind of authenticity that comes from someone cooking the food they grew up eating.

Minneapolis’s longest-running breakfast food truck, serving fresh omelettes and breakfast kabobs since 2011. Kabomelette is a diner on wheels that cranks out three-egg omelettes at surprising speed, making it one of the few food trucks that serves the morning crowd. They offer catering packages for corporate events, graduation parties, and neighborhood gatherings. The concept is simple — eggs, fillings, speed — but there’s something genuinely joyful about eating a made-to-order omelette outside on a Saturday morning. The breakfast gap in the food truck world is real, and Kabomelette fills it.