Satisfy all your cravings in one place this weekend — Foodie Fest is coming to Riverhead’s Tanger Outlets (602 Tanger Mall Drive, Riverhead) with over 10 different food trucks, an assortment of food stands and loads of entertainment.
From May 23 to 25 from 12 to 7 p.m., expect a kid’s zone with inflatable slides and bounce houses, an on-site DJ and a variety of different cuisines, with no two trucks serving the same type of food, in front of the Eddie Bauer and New Balance stores.
“You’re not going to find six empanada trucks or zeppole trucks — we try to have one of everything because we want the diversity and the selections,” says Oleg Zivkovich, Foodie Fest partner.
Get some shopping done and take advantage of any Memorial Day Weekend sales while exploring what the Long Island food truck scene has to offer.
Spiro Ploumes, founder of Foodie Fest and a food truck event coordinator servicing Long Island, partnered with Zivkovich, owner of Long Island Fairs, to combine their entertainment and organizationl expertise.
Foodie Fest brings an assortment of different flavors to customers, wherever the multiple food truck fleet sets up. (Photo credit: Foodie Fest)
The business started as Covid regulations were winding down and Zivkovich joined in 2023. The pair invited some of their favorite mobile food purveyors from the industry and food truck community to create a well-rounded culinary experience for hungry shoppers and food truck enthusiasts.
This is the company’s third year bringing their fleet of food trucks, the majority of which are from Long Island, to the Riverhead outlets. They also do events at the Deer Park Tanger Outlets with the intention to promote the individual businesses for private event hire. Most of the food options are perfect to munch on while walking around, but some stands also sell great food to take home.
Some of the exciting eats on the menu include Tashana’s Kitchen, serving soul food like Cajun shrimp and candied yams, or The Filthy Pig, cooking up burnt ends and other barbecue delicacies.
There will be wings, roasted corn, pizza, chicken sandwiches, Caribbean cuisine, Salvadorean bites, Greek food, smoothies, ice cream, tropical drinks, pickles, pudding, lemonade and distilled spirits, among other exciting treats.
“What’s important to me is that there’s an element of something you don’t get downtown,” says Zivkovich.
To find out more and see if your favorite food truck will be in Riverhead, click here.
