Current River Food Truck Festival

06/29/2025

If you attended the 5th Annual Current River Food Truck Festival yesterday, please share your photo memories of the day here!

06/29/2025

If you're wondering who won the amazing kayak raffle, it was Jason Lott of Van Buren! Congrats to him, and thanks to everyone who bought tickets!

06/29/2025

Winner, winner, smoked meat dinner!!!

Our 2025 People's Choice winner was Martin's Smoked Meats LLC!

Thank you again to all our food trucks who joined us for another amazing event, and to all the many people who braved sort of icky weather to come hang out with our amazing food trucks and vendors today!

06/28/2025

Check this out!!!! Not only will you get a full belly at the 5th annual Current River Food Truck Festival, but you can also get a relaxing massage! Angela Zimmer is all set up and you can take advantage of her skills for $1/minute!

06/28/2025

Jenny Tanner showcasing her chainsaw carving skills! She'll be doing demos the rest of the day, as well as selling her beautiful creations!

06/28/2025

We've got great stuff happening for kids today at the 5th annual Current River Food Truck Festival, so come see us! We're here until 8 pm!

06/28/2025

Families are out enjoying the 5th Annual Current River Food Truck Festival today, so don't miss your chance to join the fun!!! We're here until 8 pm!

06/28/2025

We are just getting started - we're willing the rain to just keep passing us right on by!!!

But we're already cooking and playing today, so come out and join us!!! We'll be here until 8 pm!!!

06/28/2025

TODAY IS THE DAY! We're getting those pesky rain showers out of the way early, but just in case a couple of them hang around, just know we'll be here anyway - ain't no raindrops keeping us away from this good food!!!

Make sure you see all our food trucks today:

Lemonade House Grille - Carter County will be serving up all your lemonade favorites!

Dave's Bagels will be making your favorite bagel creations!

Gooch's Good Eats & Treats will have yummy food to fill your tummy and ice cream to cool you off!

Teresita's Street Food has all your Mexican food favorites, along with their refreshing fruit cups!

You can't have a food truck festival without some of the best BBQ around, so we've got Hercules Southern BBQ back to hook us up!

Southeast Missouri favorite Hyde a Way Catfish Inn will be serving that delicious fish with all the fixings!

Krave Kave is gonna have what you need to stay cool on a hot summer day, as they bring their custom milkshakes to Carter County!

Whiskey Wagon Mobile Events is serving all the pies - PIZZA pies, that is!

Lucky Dragon Express PB is our connection for your Asian food cravings!

And last but not least, we've got Martin's Smoked Meats LLC bringing their meat sticks and charcuterie boxes (or "Snackle Boxes" for our Current River fishers)!

We'll have craft vendors set up selling unique gifts too!

Don't worry about the heat - the Carter County Health Center has their mobile health unit onsite for first aid today.

Kids' Zone will be hopping with activities from the National Park Service and Missouri Down Under Adventure Zoo!

Live music with Laney Asher, The NLT Band, and the Country Fire cloggers.

You do NOT wanna miss out today from 3-8 pm!

06/27/2025

LOOKING FOR A WAY TO SPEND SATURDAY AFTERNOON/EVENING?

Join us for the 5th annual Current River Food Truck Festival!

Saturday, June 28, 2025 | 3-8 PM
Historic Carter County Courthouse | Van Buren, MO

Live performances by:
The NLT Band
Laney Asher (also on tik tok: laney_sings and IG: laneysings1)
Country Fire Cloggers

Activities for the entire family:
Kids Zone | Facepainting | Raffle (kayak) | Corn hole | and More!

The Food Truck Festival is the annual fundraiser for the Carter County MU Extension which supports the county 4H activities, as well as county educational programming and other community resources and support.

Note: We are still looking for a few more food trucks and craft vendors, please reach out if interested in participating.

Current River Food Truck Festival features new cuisines, handmade crafts, and children’s activities!

06/26/2025

On Saturday, you can vote for your favorite food truck as they compete in our People's Choice contest!

Who's going to win????