An open-air food and drink festival, 35 trucks, carts, and stands celebrate the diverse cuisines that make up this vibrant borough. Try local favorites like Mysttik Masaala’s Indian street food, Wah Gwaan’s Caribbean-inspired tacos, and skewers from Yakitori Tatsu. There’s also a host of sweets vendors like crowd-pleaser Sam’s Fried Ice Cream, plus a showcase of local artisans, and live music. Open every Saturday through November, it’s ticketed to reserve a spot but free to enter.

Queens is known to be one of the most culinarily diverse boroughs, and the food at the Queens Night Market represents exactly that. With nearly 40 food vendors, you can try everything from Romanian-Hungarian chimney cake at Twister Cake to Trinidadian shark sandwiches from Carribean Street Eats. Expect food stands instead of trucks, but think dosas to momos, ceviches to cachapas, and a whole lot of deliciousness in between. Tickets are $5 for a timed entry.

Five trucks serve up authentic Latin American flavors every weekend to hungry soccer players and spectators at the Red Hook ball fields. Taste Colombian salchipapas and don’t miss El Olomega’s Salvadoran pupusas oozing with cheese. The Red Hook Food Vendors are old school New York, and have been serving the neighborhood for decades. They closed the 2020 season for permitting and pandemic reasons, they are back for 2021. Pro trip: visit on the earlier side, before the afternoon soccer matches.

The Tijuana-style birria taco was arguably the taco trend of 2020, and in Queens, Birria Landia is the spot to eat them. Their birria de res slow-cooked beef in a guajillo chile broth, served as a folded taco that is soaked in the broth then griddled to crispy perfection. Served with a consommé of the same guajillo broth for dipping (or drinking), this is one trend that’s here to stay and the perfect late night bite.

The Halal Guys have been serving up gyros and halal plates to Midtown Manhattanites since the mid-1990s. Often impersonated but rarely improved upon, you can’t go wrong with the beef gyro combo served with tangy yogurt sauce and fiery red hot sauce. While they’ve franchised across the country, this original midtown cart is where it all began.

With the goal of giving the Belgian waffle a “serious upgrade,” Wafels & Dinges has been serving up crisp-yet-fluffy waffles with your choice of toppings for over ten years. From the churro waffle topped with dulce de leche dipped in cinnamon, to the baconana with bacon and bananas dipped in fudge, your sweet tooth can’t go wrong.

A stalwart of the NYC street food scene, NY Dosas has been cooking light-as-air dosas and uttapams for nearly 20 years. NYU students and South Asian food fanatics alike love the spice-laden pondicherry dosa with potatoes and veggies.

A relative newcomer to the NY scene parked outside of the 73rd Street Duane Reade in Jackson Heights, this Bangladeshi street food truck is getting much-deserved attention for its fuchka. A popular street food snack, fuchka are puffs of fried semolina dough filled with spiced potatoes or split peas, topped with red onions, chiles, and cilantro that are then doused in a tangy tamarind water. It’s a burst of sweet, salty, sour, umami, heat that shouldn’t be missed.

This family-owned and operated business has been serving wood-fired gyros and hand-skewered souvlaki for decades. A go-to for Greek street food, locals love their lamb and beef gyro pita stuffed with hand-cut fries. Cash only but they’ve got an ATM built into the truck.