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Food trucks serve up first ever festival in Saskatoon

Numerous trucks rolled up for Saskatoon’s first street food festival Saturday at River Landing. Thomas Piller / Global News

SASKATOON – Saskatoon’s first ever food truck festival took place on the weekend at River Landing.

The YXE Street Food and music festival served up food and entertainment to an estimated 7,000 people Saturday.

A collection of roughly 15 mobile food vendors were in attendance including Disco Dogs, Pineapple Express, Elaine’s Mini Donuts, Chill Frozen Yogurt, Schryers BBQ, Boryski’s Butcher Shop and Perogie Queen.

Since the city approved food trucks last year, they’ve garnered a lot of attention from hungry people in Saskatoon and it showed on Saturday.

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“I love food trucks. My favourite is the, well, one of my favourites is at Disco Dogs, the Texas shocker which has peanut butter on a hot dog,” said one satisfied customer.

“There’s a lot of food and we get to be out in Saskatoon on a great day like this,” said another participant.

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Nine bands from Saskatoon and Regina performed at the event throughout the day.

Organizers say they are already brewing up ideas for next season.

Watch below: preparing for Saskatoon’s first food truck festival

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