Mayor Jimmy Davis announced that Bayonne is hosting its sixth food truck festival on Saturday, May 3, from 12:00 noon to 7:00 p.m. Mayor Davis said, “We are happy to welcome the food truck festival back to Avenue E in 2025. This great event will offer people a day to try cuisine from the best food trucks in the region.  We look forward to seeing both Bayonne residents and visitors from other communities as we bring the food trucks back to our city.  The food truck festival will welcome people to Bayonne to celebrate the spring and to see how great our community is.”  Mayor Davis continued, “The City of Bayonne encourages people to arrive by Light Rail at the 22nd Street Station.  It will be an easy way to come to the festival and see what Bayonne has to offer.” 

The food truck festival is sponsored by the Bayonne Urban Enterprise Zone (UEZ).  Bayonne UEZ Coordinator Jackie Farber said, “I would like to encourage our metropolitan area neighbors to come to town, support our local businesses, and enjoy the food truck festival.  We hope you will come back to Bayonne again to shop, dine, and enjoy our growing community.” 

The festival will take place on Avenue E between 22nd and 24th Streets.  In order to accommodate the festival, portions of Avenue E will be closed to traffic.   A variety of vendors will be selling food and other items out of food trucks, tents, and tables. The trucks and tents will offer a great assortment of foods and other items from a variety of cultures. 

The participating food vendors will include: Tipsy Scoop, Coney Island Saucery, Savage Burger, Sweet Crunch Tanghulu, Taste of Poland, The Little Sicilian, Twisted Steaks llc, Wafels and Dinges, MozzArepas, Pizza Vita, Mao's Bao, Angry Archies, Cubano X-Press, Athens Delite inc, Big Mozz, Inc, Btch'n Bacon USA, Carnival Concessions, Chava's Empanadas, Cold Stone Creamery, Crepe Suzette de France Inc, .El Gallo de Oro, Ma & Pa's Tex Mex BBQ, Grilling me Softly, House of Cupcakes, Jersey Johnnys, Jersey Pickles, Just Delicious KettleCorn, La Coqueta Mexican Cocina, and Latin Bites.  

Other participating businesses will include: Verizon, Liberty Coca-Cola Beverages, NRG Home, Golden Light Designs, Kinda Jerky Really Nutty, LuvLee Creations and More, The Beard Dad, Trashion, and Drunken Bee & Company. 

In addition to the food trucks and tents, the event will include children’s rides, sand art, live music, and a beer and wine garden for the adults.  The children’s rides will be in Sister Miriam Teresa Park, which is located on Gregg Lane between 23rd and 24th Streets.  The beer and wine garden will be located on 23rd Street towards Gregg Lane.   

The musical entertainment will feature concerts by Ballistic Berry from 12:30-3:30 p.m. and by Who Brought the Dog? from 4:00-7:00 p.m. A stage for performances will be set up at 23rd Street and Avenue E.   

Admission to the festival is free.  Members of the public will purchase their own choices of food, beverages, and children’s rides.   

For safety reasons, several “Road Closed,” “Local Traffic Only,” and “No Parking” signs will be posted in and around the affected portions of the Avenue E corridor.  Variable message signs will also be used to announce information to motorists.  Police and Fire Department vehicles will assist in creating safety perimeters for the event.  Set-up for the event will begin at 7:00 a.m.  

Parking lots will be available in several locations:  Lots 6 and 7 – 23rd Street and Church Lane; Lots 8 and 9 – East 26th Street between Broadway and Avenue E; and the Barnabas Medical Center parking deck at 24th Street and DelMonte Drive.  Public metered parking will also be available along the Broadway corridor.  Pay station and parking meter enforcement will be in effect. 

Rain date: Sunday, May 4, is the rain date for the food truck festival.  If the rain date were needed, the same hours and other details announced for Saturday, May 3, would be in effect on Sunday, May 4. In the event of predictions of severely inclement weather for Saturday, May 3, a decision about using the rain date for the festival would be made by the day before.