STREEAT®️ Comes to Bologna

STREEAT®️ is a traveling food truck festival that was launched in Italy in 2014. The event travels around Italy, setting up in public parks to feature ‘street eats’ and offer people a unique street foods experience. The idea is to promote and “… rediscover the flavors of Italian tradition, but also recipes from other countries.”

This weekend the trucks set up in the garden of Villa Cassarini … near Porta Saragozza in Bologna.

It rained Friday … too wet to dine outdoors. Other plans were in the works for Sunday … so going then was out. Besides, that’s when the Madonna would be processing back to the Sanctuary of San Luca after her week-long stay in Bologna … the area promised to be very crowded.

That left us with one option … to go today. We went early … there was rain in the forecast later in the day. And, of course, you know we — particularly, me — shy away from crowds. We also avoided possible long lines by going earlier … which is always a plus.

Arriving at the garden/park, we wandered around to see what foods were on offer by the 15 trucks participating in the event, and also take advantage of the opportunity for people-free photos … a quirk of mine.

We vetoed the American BBQ and smashburger trucks, and then made a second round of the trucks to further winnow down the options … until we settled on Sicilian delicacies. Of course, our decision had NOTHING to do whatsoever with the fact that waiting-to-be-filled fresh cannoli shells were stacked in the display case of that food. truck!!! (If you know Mui at all, you know that I am being a bit sarcastic here 😜.)

Good food …. nice weather, though we had to seek out what little sun there was as it was a bit chilly. We even had music from a DJ … though it was French and American … go figure!Read more