Reno Street Food rolls into downtown Reno

What -- no comment on the Gourmelt versus Dish drama?

Heres a comment: If this were happening in a larger city, they would be hard-pressed to find a newspaper/publication that thinks the feud is any more newsworthy than me buying a Sprite at 7-11, however there are enough people/friends behind the scenes fanning the fire so that certain news organizations are drinking more koolaid than I consumed for Wingfield Towers and Waterfront combined. News flash for everyone involved; nobody I talk to downtown gives a crap about the drama....people (and the City of Reno and apparently most of the other food trucks sans GourMelt) just want an event that happens more than once a month to congregate at and socialize (and make money) that doesnt involve a bar, particularly in the seeming absence of a downtown farmers market this year. Maybe we should graduate down to toy food trucks from Tonka, because thats the immature preschool level this drama is hovering at. It only serves to hurt both events and multiple food trucks.

Amen!

Ha! Great comment, Mike. :)

I don't think anyone is stoking the flames of a drama here. The RGJ did one single article on it and it was pretty objective. Gourmelt tried to block the permit process for the new event, and I think that was pretty immature of them. They had every opportunity to expand the event and declined, so someone else did and now they're angry??? That's like someone holding a First Friday Farmer's Market on Virginia St in Reno and then they don't want to do it every Friday so someone else comes along and holds a Farmer's Market on Virginia St on the other Fridays. I think it's newsworthy that Gourmelt is playing the victim card and trying to stop these other people from offering food trucks the rest of the Fridays. Fortunately, it sounds like the City of Reno is just going to ignore them and let the free market prevail. Good for them and bad karma on you Gourmelt.

Reno Gazettte did threestories about it one on their new Facebook foodie page RGJ Tastes once in Jonathan column and a mainstream story, plus there are Yelp comments all over place about it and Gourmelt's web site post about it. It was all over twitter and Gourmelt made big deal about it to there Facebook followers.

How about some art for sale by local artists? Wouldn't the inside spaces be great for that? Shop, eat, shop some more.

The Gourmelt girls need to suck it up. They write a blog post stating that they find Food Truck Friday's too much to do more than once a month. Then in the same post they complain that the other group is stealing their idea. I guess that they don't know you can't have it both ways. Their karma is quickly running out. Also, they stole their food truck idea from the grilled cheese food truck in SF. Turnabout is fair play.

I think the inside of the building/s would be an awesome place for a farmers market. Either at the same time as this event or not. Indoor means it could be year round!

What was the first Reno Street Food event like? how was the turnout, organization, etc.? Curious to know how it turned out in it's first week.