Truck you, Yelp! These are 5 of NYC’s best restaurants on wheels that you totally ignored
NY Post
We were trucked over.
When Yelp unveiled its list of the 100 top U.S. food trucks for 2025, it left out one crucial food mecca: New York City.
The West Coast and Hawaii comprised the lion’s share of the Bay Area-based site’s countdown — while Gotham didn’t even place in this gastronomic drag race. The closest movable feast was mobile sushi bar Wisp Express in Jersey City, New Jersey — ranked 75th.
The Big Apple’s mobile-dining gurus are understandably shocked by the diss, which was based on user reviews of 58,000 restaurants in its food truck category.
“I take that very personally,” Ben Goldberg, co-founder and president of the mobile vendor advocacy group the New York Food Truck Association (NYFTA), told The Post. “I mean, we have some amazing, amazing trucks in the city, and it is the culinary mecca of the world. So to not have [us] represented seems kind of crazy.”
NYC’s bountiful meals on wheels scene is particularly impressive given the bureaucratic hurdles it takes to own and operate a food truck here. One of the biggest obstacles is the ever-elusive food truck vending permit issued by the New York City Health Department.
