Update on Food Truck Festival at Santa Anita Race Track

The Santa Anita Food Truck Festival is back, and is going to be BIGGER and BETTER than the first. Enjoy gourmet food 80 of Southern California’s finest gourmet food trucks including The Grilled Cheese Truck and the Lobsta Truck. Food trucks and foodies everywhere will take over the ENTIRE Santa Anita Infield.

This time around, we are making it bigger AND better!

Entertainment
Santa Anita Park will have live bands that will play between races. Live music/bands TBD.
For kids, we have Family Fun Day, consisting of moonbounces, pony rides, face painting, playground and carnival games. Moonbounces and playground are FREE. Pony rides, face painting and ! carnival game tickets can be purchased at the Family Fun area.

Pony Ride – $2
Pony Ride w/ Photo – $4
Face Painting – $2
Carnival Games – 2 tickets for $1

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Santa Anita Food Truck Festival

Saturday, April 2

11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Admission
General admission to Santa Anita Park is $5. With general admission, entrance to the Food Truck Festival is free. Children 17 and under are free, when accompanied by an adult.
Parking
Santa Anita Park general parking is $4.

We’ll be the first to admit that our best laid plans for a gourmet Food Truck Festival in the infield at Santa Anita (on Jan. 29) got away from us.  Successful? Yes. Too successful? For sure. We left a lot of people unhappy. The lines were too long and some people didn’t get a chance to sample some great food.

We had 23 trucks…which is an awful lot of trucks compared to almost every venue in L.A. County. We placed them in one third of our  infield.   We had good research, solid plans, a beautiful location and a terrific variety of serious food.

The response was overwhelming. The track’s attendance that day was 26,694.  Over 10,000 visited the infield for the Food Truck Festiva! l.  The lines kept growing and growing and growing.  Foodies know that every meal is made to order and we just couldn’t get everyone served.

So we apologize and we’re making sure that we get it right this time. We’ve booked over 70 trucks for Saturday, April 2.   Plus we’re turning over our entire infield —the size of eight football fields—to food trucks.

We’ll still have a big family fun day with face painters and moon bounces and pony rides and a giant playground.

There’s no presale this time which slowed down entrance at the gates. General admission to the track is only $5.00 and that covers your entrance into the infield. No presale. No advance sa! le. No wristband.  Just get yourself inside the track and you’re at the Food Truck Festival, too.

Gates open 10:30 am.  Food Trucks start selling at 11 am. First race 12:30 pm.

Sincerely,

Allen Gutterman

Vice President, Marketing

Santa Anita Park!