Wheeled Food Wednesday a hit in downtown Carson City
Submitted by Brett Fisher on Wed, 08/23/2017 - 7:50pm
In a matter of minutes, the parking lot at 511 West King Street in downtown Carson City went from a couple dozen to several dozen people participating in the new Wheeled Food Wednesdays community event organized by the Brewery Arts Center.
"We are here all the time at the BAC," said Carson City resident Carol Scott, who sat eating dinner Wednesday night at the community dinner table in the parking lot of the Brewery Arts Center's Performance Hall, across Minnesota Street from the BAC main campus.
"It's a great community event, all these people here eating together, which I really like," Scott said.
Craig Logan of Carson City said the set up reminds him of family-style dining from the old world.
"This reminds me of a Basque eating experience, where Basques eat family style sitting at the table together," he said. "This is an under-appreciated event that people need to come out for."
Both Logan and Scott were eating at Wheeled Food Wednesdays for the first time.
The event inaugurated Wednesday, Aug. 9, and the crowd has increased significantly in just the third week, Rollin' Pizza Pies co-owner Karole Denning said.
"We've been here since the beginning," he said. "It's really taking off now. There are a lot more people and a lot more trucks."
Wheeled Food Wednesdays was conceptualized by BAC leadership as a way to encourage residents to socialize as neighbors and members of a shared community, BAC Production Manager Jeffrey Fast said.
"We'd been trying to think of a way to bring people together casually where there's no event and no work," he said. "How do you just meet your neighbor and talk to someone that you probably haven't talked to before? That's how this came about."
There is something about breaking bread that breaks the ice between people, Fast said, that is the whole idea behind Wheeled Food Wednesdays.
"If you come and share a meal together, you start off strangers, then sit down and eat food together, and you're friends," he said. "You don't know their political persuasion, their social or economic status. You don't know anything about them."
Scott and Logan both were impressed with the diverse selection of food and food trucks Wednesday evening.
From pizza to pulled pork, Mexican Food to bison meat as well as traditional Nevada fare, Wheeled Food Wednesdays is a culinary adventure awaiting the tastebuds.
And customers won't have to wait so long for their dinner, either, Scott noted.
"It's spread out enough here that we can get our food right away," she said. "I've been up to the food truck event in Reno, and the lines are so long there that you can't even get to your food."
Scott referred to the wildly popular region-wide event called Food Truck Fridays, now in its sixth season and held at Idlewild Park along the Truckee River in West Reno.
While the Carson City event is new, food truck vendors said that locals are catching on to its appeal very quickly.
"It's been encouraging the way the community is coming out to support what we're doing," Rollin' Pizza Pies co-owner Desiree Kagan said. "Now we have our own scene. We encourage people to come out, bring their families, try different cuisines and bask in the sun."
Wheeled Food Wednesdays happens every Wednesday evening from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Brewery Arts Center weather-permitting.
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