Word of Mouth: Start date for the Red Hook Food Vendors

Updated with more details from Cesar Fuentes, executive director of the Food Vendors Committee of Red Hook Park.

Writes Fuentes: "Upon our last compliance hurdle being met — that is, the vendors food trucks and carts passing [Department of Health] inspection next week — our affair can finally open its season as early as the weekend of July 19th!! While we are almost certain that most vendors will be compliant & ready to operate by July 19th, we have also set up a 'rain date' for the weekend of July 26th in case the majority of our vendors are required to further adjust their mobile food vending units to meet inspection standards.

He adds, "We will issue an official statement advising the specific start date soon."

Meantime, as Fuentes notes (and you probably know already), several of the vendors do business on Sunday at Brooklyn Flea; last weekend they included the Bermudez stall (primarily pupusas and tamales), the Hernandez stall (huaraches and quesadillas) and Vaquero Fruits (and elotes). The food itself is fine — at bottom, that's a fully loaded pupusa revuelta (filled with meat and cheese; $2.25) — but in the sedate atmosphere of brownstone-lined Fort Greene, the thrill of the grass is far away.

Red Hook Food Vendors
Near the corner of Bay and Clinton Sts., Red Hook, Brooklyn
Eventually, on Saturday and Sunday, mid-morning till late afternoon, perhaps during the warmer weather, perhaps year-round
For now, at Brooklyn Flea, on the high school playground on Lafayette Ave. between Clermont and Vanderbilt Aves.
Sunday, 10:00-5:00; a few food vendors only