Savory Safari

People love food trucks. People love animals. People love going out on a Saturday night. So why settle for any old food truck roundup when there's one that involves all three? The food trucks are going on safari July 13 at the Palm Beach Zoo, and you can go with...

By Rebecca McBane

July 11, 2013

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People love food trucks. People love animals. People love going out on a Saturday night. So why settle for any old food truck roundup when there's one that involves all three? The food trucks are going on safari July 13 at the Palm Beach Zoo, and you can go with them. Because who doesn't want to meet a koala while eating pizza? No one, that's who. In cooperation with Food Truck Connection, several food trucks will be scattered throughout the zoo. There will be beer and wine in addition to live music from Sekond Nature and Medicine Hat. Handlers will be walking around with some of the friendlier zoo inhabitants for up-close and personal animal encounters. The trucks currently scheduled to attend are Crazydilla, Mediterranean Grill of the Palm Beaches, PS561, the Daily Special, Hot Wheels Pizza, Churrasco Grill, DOugh DOugh's Donuts, and Paradise Shave Ice. Food Truck Safari takes place from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday. The $10 admission and a portion of the food trucks' proceeds will go to support the zoo and the work they do with the animals. Palm Beach Zoo is located at 1301 Summit Blvd. in West Palm Beach. Call 561-533-0887, or visit palmbeachzoo.org.
Sat., July 13, 6-10 p.m., 2013

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Rebecca McBane is the arts and culture/food editor for New Times Broward-Palm Beach. She began her journalism career at the Sun Sentinel's community newspaper offshoot, Forum Publishing Group, where she worked as the editorial assistant and wrote monthly features as well as the weekly library and literature column, "Shelf Life." After a brief stint bumming around London's East End (for no conceivable reason, according to her poor mother), she returned to real life and South Florida to start at New Times as the editorial assistant in 2009. A native Floridian, Rebecca avoids the sun and beach at all costs and can most often be found in a well-air-conditioned space with the glow of a laptop on her face.

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