Philly Food Trucks That Will Pull Right Up to Your Wedding
Tacos, pizza, ice cream — the choice is yours.
Philly food trucks for your wedding / Photograph by Asya Photography
We love when a food truck makes a wedding appearance. After all, it’s interactive and fun for your guests, and lets you showcase even more of your favorite things on your Big Day. (Ice cream? Doughnuts? Tacos? You name it!) And there are so many different ways to incorporate them — during cocktail hour, for playful apps, at the end of the night, when you want to send your guests off with a killer late-night snack.
Here are just a few of our favorites — but if you have a truck you think should be on the list, share with us by emailing kschott@phillymag.com.
The Clean Plate Club
Photograph by Chloe Dawson Photography
Where: While they host prep and cooking classes in their commissary in Abington, the CPC truck visits a rotating list of breweries, coffee shops, and neighborhoods. Check the Instagram for updates.
What: The culinary couple behind the Clean Plate Club, Sara and Keith Dreitlein, serve up American comfort food with seasonal twists. Sourcing local products and ingredients for their creations (hello, Wild Flour Bakery bread!), CPC ensures the dishes are always fresh. In the summer, you might find salads with veggies and a caprese grilled cheese. In the winter? Expect warm soups and chili. And for weddings, they collaborate with couples to ensure menus fit the occasion — and the couple’s tastes.
Beiler’s Doughnuts
Photograph courtesy of Beiler’s Doughnuts/Facebook
Where: In addition to Beiler’s hub in Reading Terminal Market, the shop has a location in Lancaster. The doughnut trailer is only brought out for special events.
What: Beiler’s concoctions are a sweet staple here in Philly. Lines at its Reading Terminal Market outpost cause serious congestion in the already crammed aisles. Cap off your wedding night with a decadent treat — the three packages, ranging from two hours and 600 doughnuts to eight hours and 2,000 doughnuts, ensure your guests won’t go home hungry.
Burrito Feliz
Photograph by Matthew Kark
Where: The signature green truck makes local stops on a weekly basis. Find the schedule posted every week on their Instagram.
What: Birria egg rolls, crab tostadas, homemade tortillas — the authentic Mexican cuisine served from Burrito Feliz is sure to have your guests talking about how amazing the food was all night. They will serve directly from the truck, set up a buffet, or do a combination of both, and with various catering packages, you can choose to keep things light (though we can’t imagine why) or layer on additions — just like your favorite toppings.
Have a Ball
Photograph by Unforgettable Expressions Photography
Where: This truck and its team have a ball motoring around to local festivals, events, corporate functions, parties, and weddings throughout the tri-state area. Their Instagram is the best way to discover where they’re heading next.
What: Run by Caitlin Agnew and Daniela Lammey, this cute-named truck does everyday foods is a not-so-everyday way — in meatballs and rice balls. There are buffalo chicken balls, spinach-artichoke balls, cheesesteak balls — and loaded french fries, just because. Vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options are available. Agnew and Lammey provide different packages for the main dinner and cocktail hour, but they’ll work with their couples to ensure their entire menu is … ballin’.
Jerry’s Kitchen
Photograph courtesy of Jerry’s Kitchen
Where: Jerry’s Kitchen focuses only on events. So you won’t find it roaming the city — but you can have it cater your Philly-area wedding festivities.
What: Jerry’s and its staff specialize in private events, offering a rotating menu of delicious and seasonal American and Philly staples — from cheesesteaks to pulled pork sandwiches. Everything is customizable per preferences and dietary restrictions. And, as a full-service caterer, they coordinate down to the last detail, providing plated, buffet, or window-style cuisine for weddings and events (like bridal showers, seen above) of various sizes.
Dos Hermanos Tacos
Photograph courtesy of Dos Hermanos Tacos
Where: The location changes weekly, so check out the truck’s Instagram every Monday for an update.
What: Having this truck pull up to your wedding reception and sling these hand-held snacks is sure to thrill your guests. Dos Hermanos offers à la carte-style options. You’ll start with a taco price per person, then add on other musts — elote, churros, Mexican sodas, and all the chips and guac you want.
Byz. Empire
Photograph by Lauren Norelle Photography
Where: The truck visits a rotating list of breweries throughout the Philly area, in addition to serving local events and providing catering services.
What: Byz. Empire (short for Byzantium) specializes in Southern and Eastern European cooking. The tasty Mediterranean dishes include rosemary-and-garlic-marinated lamb chops, octopus salad with tomato, cucumber, and feta, and smoked beets resting atop a kuri squash emulsion. With the full-service wedding package, guests will enjoy passed hors d’oeuvres and full table service. But for something a bit more laid-back, the food truck will take your taste buds on a culinary trip.
Mom-Mom’s Polish Food Cart
Photograph by Asya Photography
Where: A new location is open in Port Richmond.
What: Make your Polish grandmother proud by having Mom-Mom’s pull up to your wedding reception and prepare its finest traditional delicacies, from pierogies to kielbasa. Their cheesesteak pierogies — complete with caramelized onions and black pepper ketchup — are so good Guy Fieri had to try them. Mom-Mom’s offers different choices to serve you and your guests properly, including a walk-up (yes, to the truck) option where you can make your own plate, plus entree stations and a buffet.
Pink’s Cold Treats
Photograph by Asya Photography
Where: Thursday to Sunday through October, you can scoop up a cool snack from this truck at its post outside of the Philadelphia Art Museum. It also services street festivals and other events throughout the tri-state area.
What: If Barbie was getting hitched, Pink’s Cold Treats would be her food truck of choice, to great all the Barbies and Kens of her land to seven flavors of smooth-texture, gluten-free water ice. Pink’s also has an equally colorful push-cart for indoor and outdoor use.
Boomer’s Kitchen & Catering
Photograph courtesy of Boomer’s
Where: The truck serves local events and festivals and provides catering services to the tri-state area. Check the website for location updates.
What: Fresh and flavorful, Boomer’s serves up home-style meals for your wedding. Their selection of traditional American fast foods is customizable. And with options ranging from Philly classics (cheesesteak egg rolls) to burger stations, chicken and waffles, wings, and more, there’s plenty to choose from. They offer two catering packages with your choice of truck service, stations, or cocktail-hour hors d’oeuvres.
Munchy Machine
Photograph by Emily Palm Photo
Where: The Munchy Machine motors up to local breweries, large festivals, and private catering events. Check their schedule on Instagram to find out where they’ll be next.
What: Food choices feeling like a mystery? This Scooby-inspired truck satisfies both your guests’ cravings and your childhood nostalgia. The Munchy Machine dishes out its menu of inventive sandwiches, snacks, and desserts throughout Delco, and will pull up to your festivities for truck service, buffet service, a combination of both, or you can arrange for a cocktail hour of passed hors d’oeuvres and stationary apps.
Pitruco
Photograph by Inna Spivakova of Peach Plum Pear Photography
Where: Find the truck parked at various locations in the city Tuesday through Friday.
What: If a steaming slice of pizza sounds like the dish for your Big Day, then feast your eyes on Pitruco’s look-at-me red truck. The brick-oven wood-fired pies are baked in the vehicle; the team will also whip up an assortment of antipasti, salads, and meat-and-cheese platters for further snacking.
Popalong Truck
Photograph by Jessica Manns Photography
Where: The Popalong Truck caters throughout the area.
What: Serving up both Weckerly’s homemade ice cream and seasonal ice-cream sandwiches and Lil Pop Shop’s cute popsicles, pies, and cookies, this truck keeps things cool as the perfect end (or beginning) to any wedding party. Their truck can motor right up to your venue to refresh your guests, or cater to smaller, more intimate events.
Red Stone Pizza Truck
Photograph courtesy of Red Stone Pizza Truck
Where: The schedule varies, so check Instagram or Facebook for the latest location.
What: Pizza is a wedding crowd-pleaser. And this truck, of course, has the slice (or two, or three) for you. The friendly staff will send out five different varieties of hot pies and myriad appetizers for your guests — right from the truck. Flavors range from shrimp and tomato to meat-lover to grilled veggie. Servingware and paper products are included.
Scoops ’N’ Smiles
Photograph by Sweetwater Portraits
Where: They have two brick-and-mortar spots at 327 East King Street in Malvern and 6 East Gay Street in West Chester — plus concessions throughout Subaru Park. (They’re the official ice cream of the Philadelphia Union.) Then there’s the traveling Scoops ’N’ Smiles Ice Cream Truck.
What: Picture your summer wedding. Now picture it ending with an ice-cream cone in hand — by way of this sweet ride. Its staff will come ready with four flavors of delicious Dutch-crafted ice cream (Blueberry Swirl! Fluffer Nutter!) and homemade water ice, as well as toppings and utensils. Are you grinning yet?
Victor’s Pizza Truck
Photograph courtesy of Victor’s Pizza Truck
Where: The schedule changes weekly and is posted to Instagram.
What: Can’t decide between Italian and Mexican? Have both! Victor’s slings classic wood-fired pizzas (yep, there’s an oven in the truck) plus fun Mexican-inspired pies, like birria and al pastor. They’ll set up a buffet, indoors or outdoors, with your choice of pizzas, homemade fruit agua frescas, appetizers, and salad options. Plates, napkins, and flatware are included. It’s the best of both worlds.
Gotta Lotta Gelata
Where: You can find the truck in the city via Instagram updates and at its Pennsville location at 101 North Broadway. It also caters weddings in the Philly and Wilmington area.
What: A sweet treat is always a good way to end the night — particularly at a wedding. And Gotta Lotta Gelata’s handcrafted gelato is a dreamy choice. Their products are made in the traditional fashion using top-quality ingredients and equipment imported from Italy. And there’s plenty of variety, with seasonal gelato and sorbet flavors. Among the most decadent options for your Big Day: boozy scoops infused with a selection of liquors and liqueurs, in flavors like limoncello and bourbon butter pecan. There is a 100-person serving minimum plus a travel fee for locations that are 25 miles from its Pennsville headquarters.
This article is an updated version of a story originally published by Alexandra Leshner.
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