Vendy Awards Press
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2009 Press
New York Times – Four Stars With Mustard: Lunch Carts Win Awards
September 29, 2009
Gourmet – Vendy Vidi Vici
September 28, 2009
Guardian (UK) – New York’s best street food awards
September 28, 2009
Huffington Post – Country Boys Taco Truck Owners Fernando And Yolanda Martinez Win First Place At Vendy Awards
September 28, 2009
Blog round-up – Midtown Lunch , Serious Eats, Grub Street, Eater, Fork in the Road, The Feed, Blondie and Brownie, Dessert Buzz, Always Hungry, Vittles Vamp, and Metromix.
September 28, 2009
NY1 – Taco Stand Takes Top Prize at Vendy Awards
September 27, 2009
NY Daily News – Brooklyn Couple Nab Top Prize at Fifth Annual Vendy Awards
September 27, 2009
NY Post – Vend Duo’s Sweet Taste of Victory
September 27, 2009
WNBC – Taco Cart Wins Coveted Vendy Award
September 27, 2009
Newsday – Taco Cart Wins NYC’s Street Vendor Award
September 27, 2009
CBS Early Show – Bobby Flay Finds the Best NYC Street Food
September 25, 2009
Blackbook – Vendrification: Street Food Street Fights
September 25, 2009
amNY- Vendy Awards Pay Tribute to Street Food
September 22, 2009
New York Daily News – Street chefs throughout New York City vie to cart off the 2009 Vendy Award
August 16, 2009
Washington Post – Big Wheels of Street Vending Vie to Be New York’s Best
August 17, 2009
Huffington Post – 2009 Vendy Awards Finalists Announced
August 17, 2009
New York Times blogs – City Room: Vendy Award Finalists Announced, Diner’s Journal: Vendy Award Finalists Announced, The Local: Props for Flea Tacos
August 17, 2009
WNBC – Vendy Award Finalists Announced: The 2009 nominees span the map
August 17, 2009
2008 Press
ABC World News Tonight – “Not just hot dogs and pretzels: NYC sidewalk chefs compete in an intense, but celebratory cook-off”.
October 22, 2008
New York Daily News – 3 brothers cart off top Vendy award
October 19, 2008
New York Daily News – New York’s sidewalk chefs aim to cart off a Vendy
September 27, 2008
New York Times – City Room: ‘Vendy’ Finalist Brings Pride to Red Hook Cooks
October 10, 2008
New York Magazine – video coverage
2007 Press
National Public Radio/All Things Considered – Street Food Carts Vie for Vendy Awards in New York
September 28, 2007
Good Morning America – spotlights the Vendy Awards
September 25, 2007
Savuer – Street Cred: Welcome to the Vendies,the Red Carpet gala for New York’s pushcart heros
August-September 2007
New York Magazine – devoted a large part of the June 18, 2007 issue to street food and the Vendys. Link to an interview with Sean Basinski, Street Vendor Project at the bottom of the article.
2006 Press
New York Times – Queens Vendor Wins Pushcart Award
October 25, 2006
Boston Globe – Award-winning cuisine on the street corners of New York
May 31, 2006
BBC’s The World – The Vendy Awards
October 26, 2006
2005 Press
New York Times – In a Battle of Street-Food Vendors, the Wurst Wins
November 12, 2005
Vendy Awards Blogroll of Fame
- Serious Eats (www.seriouseats.com)
- Midtown Lunch (midtownlunch.com)
- Gothamist (www.gothamist.com)
- Blondie and Brownie (blondieandbrownie.blogspot.com)
- Porkchop Express (www.porkchop-express.com)
- Grub Street (nymag.com/daily/food)
- Eater (eater.com)
- Chowhound (chowhound.chow.com)
- The Gurgling Cod (thegurglingcod.typepad.com)
- 52 Projects (www.52projects.com)
- Vittles Vamp (www.vittlesvamp.com)
- The Feedbag (www.the-feedbag.com)
- The Food Section (www.thefoodsection.com)
- Save Our Taco Trucks (saveourtacotrucks.org)
- The Q Note (www.theqnote.com/)
- AlwaysHungry (www.alwayshungryny.com)









