Crowds gathered around Ted Kim and his Seoul Sausage team food truck on Dickson Street in Fayetteville earlier this year.
Photo: Todd Gill, Flyer staff
Set your DVRs or VCRs, and get ready to watch for your friends on television this weekend. The Fayetteville episode of The Great Food Truck Race airs at 8 p.m. CST Sunday, Sept. 9. on the Food Network.
The episode was filmed in Fayetteville from May 25-27, and followed five food trucks to various locations around town. Over the course of the weekend, trucks were spotted at local landmarks including Razorback Stadium, Dickson Street, and the Fayetteville square. Several locals even signed waivers to appear on the show.
The episode is part of a seven-show reality series hosted by Tyler Florence which follows food truck operators in a journey from Los Angeles to the East Coast as they try to sell their culinary creations.
Each week, contestants set up in a new town, purchase food for their trucks, and find a spot to sell their unique dishes. Whichever contestant sells the least food each week is eliminated. The team left standing at the end of the season will drive off with $50000 and the keys to their dream food truck.
The five trucks remaining on the show in Fayetteville were Coast of Atlanta from Atlanta, Ga.; Pop-A-Waffle from Los Angeles, Calif.; Momma’s Grizzly Grub from Wasilla, Alaska; Seoul Sausage from Los Angeles, Calif.; and Nonna’s Kitchenette from Parsippany, N.J.
The Food Network airs on Cox Communications channel 54, or 2054 in HD.
Awesome. Can’t wait.
Food Truck Race episode preview (May contain Spoilers, this is behind the scenes reporting from the weekend they were filming in Fayetteville, including a young local boy who was interviewed, the street lamp that Momma’s Grizzly Grub ‘knocked down’, Mayor Jordan watching over that scene, and Coody shows up at Nonna’s Kitchenette), SEE YOUTUBE LINK:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7vaGo1AGUU
Excited to see how our town looks on Reality show TV, and how the trucks I tried fared in the competition. Thanks for the heads up information, Fville Flyer.
I’m sure there will be some hogs being called on there some where…. And some fella saying ” Boy these trucks sure are fancy” : ) can’t wait to see it!!!!
O YEAH, the excitement builds. But did you all see the Food Truckers’ reaction @ the end of the last episode to *We’re going to beautiful F’ville, ARKYsaw!”
Can’t make this up:
it was a collective MEH?
And the mention of RAZOBACKS brought forth an actual
WTF IS A RAZORBACK?
The lack of enthusiasm was hilarious.
We in FYV need to either get off our butts or get over ourselves. The real what’s happening in food is now epicentered in B’ville, with a little help from our Crystal Britches friends. And a lot of hard work on the part of many people including the indefatigable Mr. Hintz, formerly head (?) of the Dickson St. Merchants’ Assn. If the wagons here are indeed circled with high rents and too many gov. reg’s. why shouldn’t the creativity go somewhere else?
I did see the end of last week’s episode and yes they said where is Arkansas, where is Fayetteville and what is a Razorback….but it was the New Jersey team so what do you expect?
Before I moved here, I could point to Arkansas’ general location but had no idea where Fayetteville was or what a Razorback was. Having said that, anyone who isn’t thoroughly charmed by Fayetteville, the Ozarks and Arkansans in general has a heart of stone. I love it here.
What?
The top restuarants on Urban Spoon are pretty much primarily found in Fayetteville. And having been to most of them there is nothing Bentonville has on Fayetteville except for a Indian Restuarant and PF Changs which is a Chain.
WTF.
P.F. Changs is in Rogers. I think Bentonville has many wonderful restaurants. Pressroom, Tusk and Trotter, Table Mesa, etc. I’m not saying Fayetteville doesn’t have good grub. I’m just saying Bentonville has more than just one Indian restaurant. In fact, we have four of those.
so bentonville has 4 Indian restaurants – how many of them are worth a flip.
I don’t know. I’ve never eaten Indian. I sure wish sometimes one could be Cuban…..or Green Submarine and Hammontree’s would open up a second place up here. My point was more than there are good restaurants, not necessarily that the Indian ones are spectacular. Though they may be….who knows?
Considering how many people from India are living and working in Bentonville, I’d imagine some of these restaurants are pretty good. Indian food is not to my personal liking, but there is enough of a population here to warrant a good Indian place.
Anyone watch the episode?
I watched, and while it was fun to see some flashes of local scenery, I would have to say to the average viewer I doubt Fayetteville made much of an impression positive or negative. Not much of the local color really comes through on that show, and that has been consistent at all their stops IMO.
There did seem to be a suggestion from the host that since this is a college town teams should keep their prices low as money is tight around here. I’m not sure how accurate that is; nearly every restaurant in town is now $2+ for a tea.
I’D SAY WE WERE DISSED.
I MEAN
POP=TARTS as a speedbump challenge for the Food Truck chefs? I mean I might bang on the plebeian nature of
local tastes but this was a new low.
I agree with ARInvestor: very hard to get a sense of local color from the way they do the show.
MAYOR JORDAN had a nice piece of the action tho’ !
i thought the bosses made everything so hard like giving the teams very little money to work with so the food they could make was on the odd and unhealthy side. of course the mandatory mounted dead pigs head. and then it was so hot that weekend. but they sold a lot. sure was a big cheer that went up when nashville was announced as the next destination.
I do happen to know about the Indian restaurants in bentonville since I’ve been to them msblaaaaaaarghuuuuuuugeeeechpffffft. they have a ways to go.
Wasn’t impressed by what they showed of our City. We are so much more then just a college town.