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Food trucks in Eastern Cape

Burgers, shawarma, kotas, pancakes, pizza and spit braais: find food trucks in Gqeberha, East London and Port Alfred.

listed: 16; listed
towns: 3; towns
for hire: 7; for hire

Towns in Eastern Cape

Some of the trucks in Eastern Cape

Open a town above to see every truck listed there.

For hire

Henry's Spitbraai

Henry's Spitbraai is a family-run spit-braai caterer in Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) that cooks at weddings, private functions, corporate events and parties across the Eastern Cape. Menu options are a lamb and chicken spitbraai, a pork spitbraai, a three-meat spitbraai, a traditional braai, potjiekos and a three-course roast, and spitbraai rental is also offered for indoor or outdoor events. Menus are for a minimum of 30 guests and can be customised.

Gqeberha, Eastern Cape

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Bite Me Catering

Bite Me Catering runs the Bite Me Food Truck, serving Lebanese-style shawarmas with a South African flair around Port Elizabeth. The truck trades at the Crossways Village Market, the South African Air Force Museum market, school events, festivals and runs, and also serves breakfast and lunch at events. They also do homecooked meals and catering for school events and pop-up markets, and travel as far as Jeffreys Bay. Event bookings can be made by phone, WhatsApp or email.

Gqeberha, Eastern Cape

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Fresh Pancakes

Fresh Pancakes is a family-run pancake stall that trades at weekend markets and events around East London, including Kim's Corner in Quigney, Avalon Market at Kidd's Beach, Kings Mall in Gonubie and Cintsa Country Club. The speciality is traditional cinnamon and sugar pancakes, made fresh and sold at the stall. They also take bulk orders of individually packed pancakes, ready to heat and serve, for fundraisers, schools, functions and resellers. Orders are placed by WhatsApp, paid in advance and collected.

East London, Eastern Cape

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Chicca Pizza

Chicca Pizza is a pizza food truck serving East London and the surrounding areas. They bake pizzas on homemade bases that are crisp on the outside and soft in the centre, topped with fresh ingredients to suit your taste. You can find the trailer at local markets and events, including the Wizards On Wheels Market, so follow their Facebook page to see where they are next.

East London, Eastern Cape

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Chubby's Food Mobile

Chubby's Food Mobile is a food trailer based in Gqeberha serving burgers, chicken wraps and chicken strips with chips. It trades at food truck events and festivals around Nelson Mandela Bay, and has also taken its trailer to the National Arts Festival in Makhanda. Follow its Facebook page to see where it is parked next, and use the phone or WhatsApp number for orders and event enquiries.

Gqeberha, Eastern Cape

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GOOD VIBES R72

Good Vibes is a food trailer on the R72 at the Astron Energy in Port Alfred, open from 7am to 6pm for breakfast and light lunch. The menu includes pancakes and jaffels, burgers with chips, and a Wednesday double burger special. Weekend extras include Kowie fresh fish and chips on Fridays and cooked Sunday meals to pre-order. A smaller unit travels to local events.

Port Alfred, Eastern Cape

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Grab A Chow

Grab A Chow is a food truck in Gqeberha selling burgers and rotis. It trades at regular spots such as Linton Grange between the Spar and Pick n Pay, and at markets and events including the SAAF Museum market and night markets. Its branding states the food is strictly halaal.

Gqeberha, Eastern Cape

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Grillicious Food Truck

Grillicious is a Mediterranean street food truck in Gqeberha. It serves pulled lamb, 12-hour beef brisket, grilled chicken or falafel on flatbread with slaw and tzatziki, with chips fried in tallow. It trades at markets such as Crossways Village Market and UP Market, and at Filthy's in Walmer, and takes bookings for corporate and private events.

Gqeberha, Eastern Cape

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Let’s Roll

Let’s Roll sells rolled Thai ice cream from a stall that moves between markets, festivals and food truck evenings around Gqeberha. It has appeared at the RHBC Kragga Kamma Food Truck Friday, the Splash Festival at Kings Beach and various family markets.

Gqeberha, Eastern Cape

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Cuisines in Eastern Cape

Eastern Cape listings are mostly in Gqeberha and East London: burgers, Lebanese-style shawarma and Mediterranean flatbreads, kotas and boerewors rolls, loaded baked potatoes, rolled ice cream, coffee, pancakes, pizza and spit braai. Some Gqeberha trucks state that their food is halaal.

About food trucks in the Eastern Cape

Most Eastern Cape listings are in Nelson Mandela Bay, which has its own pages under both Gqeberha and Port Elizabeth. East London has a smaller group of dessert and pizza sellers, and Port Alfred has a roadside food trailer on the R72.

The province's trucks run on events. Easter brings the Splash Festival to Kings Beach, the National Arts Festival fills Makhanda from late June, and agricultural shows and school derby days keep trailers on the road through the year. Gqeberha also has food truck evenings, such as Trucker Tuesday in the Baakens Valley.

Burgers, shawarma, kotas and spit braai dominate in Gqeberha, pancakes in East London, and breakfast plus fish and chips in Port Alfred. Grab A Chow and Meraki Foods in Gqeberha state that their food is strictly halaal.

Food trucks in Gqeberha and Nelson Mandela Bay

Gqeberha has the province's widest choice. Henry's Spitbraai covers weddings and company functions, Grillicious Food Truck fills flatbreads with 12-hour brisket and pulled lamb, and Bite Me Catering sells shawarmas at the Crossways Village Market and SAAF Museum markets. Trucks here trade at Sunday country markets, Friday night markets and a monthly Trucker Tuesday, and many also take event bookings. Our Port Elizabeth page covers the same trucks by suburb.

Food trucks in Gqeberha

Food trucks in East London and the Buffalo City coast

East London's listings are sweeter. Fresh Pancakes sells cinnamon and sugar pancakes at coastal markets from Kidd's Beach to Cintsa and takes bulk orders for fundraisers. Pancake Passion sells chocolate-dipped pancakes and waffles daily from its cafe in Vincent, and Chicca Pizza bakes pizza on homemade bases at markets and car shows.

Food trucks in East London

Food trucks in Port Alfred

GOOD VIBES R72 is a food trailer at the Astron Energy garage on the R72 in Port Alfred, open from 7am to 6pm for breakfast and light lunches. The menu runs to pancakes, jaffels, and burgers with chips, with a double burger special on Wednesdays. Fridays bring Kowie fresh fish and chips, and Sunday meals can be pre-ordered. A smaller unit travels to local events.

Food trucks in Port Alfred

Spit braai caterers in the Eastern Cape

Henry's Spitbraai says it has cooked spit braai across the Eastern Cape for more than 40 years, with menus from 30 guests and spit rental if you want to run it yourself. Werner's Spitbraais cooks lamb and pork spits with pot bread and sides, and runs Manas Venue in Theescombe. Both are based in Gqeberha, so if your event is in the Kouga, Sundays River Valley or further out, give the venue upfront so travel can be quoted.

Spit braai caterers across South Africa

Burger trucks in the Eastern Cape

Burgers are a staple of the province's trucks. In Gqeberha, Chubby's Food Mobile, Grab A Chow and The Chef Guy Food Truck all build their menus around them, and Outstabulous Catering and Events sells them beside kotas. Chubby's has taken its trailer as far as the National Arts Festival in Makhanda. In Port Alfred, GOOD VIBES R72 serves burgers with chips at its R72 trailer.

Burger food trucks across South Africa

Halaal food trucks in the Eastern Cape

Grab A Chow, which sells burgers and rotis in Gqeberha, states that its food is strictly halaal, and so does Meraki Foods, which serves South African street food at Happy Valley and campus events. Ask either truck directly if you need more detail before booking.

Halaal food trucks across South Africa

Where to find food trucks in the Eastern Cape

These recurring markets, festivals and shows had confirmed 2026 dates and draw Eastern Cape trucks.

Crossways Village Market, Thornhill

A country market at Crossways Farm Village between Gqeberha and Jeffreys Bay, held from 9am on the first and last Sunday of most months. Bite Me Catering and Grillicious Food Truck trade there.

Splash Festival, Kings Beach, Gqeberha

Nelson Mandela Bay's free Easter festival, held from 3 to 5 April 2026 with more than 50 food trucks. Let’s Roll and Chubby's Food Mobile have traded there.

Trucker Tuesday, Baakens Valley, Gqeberha

A food truck evening at 2 Alabaster Street from 5pm to 9pm, which in 2026 has run on the last Tuesday of the month.

National Arts Festival, Makhanda

The national arts festival ran from 25 June to 5 July 2026. Chubby's Food Mobile is among the Gqeberha trucks that have taken a trailer there.

East London Show, Gonubie

The agricultural and industrial show at the Gonubie Farmers Hall Showgrounds, held from 30 April to 3 May 2026. Pancake Passion traded there.

Hiring a food truck in the Eastern Cape

Hire from the nearest city. Gqeberha and East London are far apart, and the listed trucks mostly trade in and around their own city, so a Gqeberha truck at an East London wedding will usually mean a long travel charge, if it's possible at all. Port Alfred and the rest of the Sunshine Coast sit in between; ask first.

Spit braai is the usual choice for weddings and big functions. Henry's Spitbraai's menus start at 30 guests, and Werner's Spitbraais adjusts its menus to the event. Book early for Easter weekend, when Gqeberha trucks are at the Splash Festival, and for late June, when some head to Makhanda.

Every listing has a Request Booking button that sends your date, venue and guest numbers to the truck by WhatsApp or email. The truck replies with its own quote; Food Truck Finder doesn't take bookings or payments.

Food trucks for hire in the Eastern Cape

Food trucks in the Eastern Cape: questions

Which Eastern Cape towns have food trucks listed?

Gqeberha (also listed under Port Elizabeth), East London and Port Alfred. Gqeberha has the widest choice, including spit braai caterers.

Is there a food truck festival in the Eastern Cape?

Gqeberha has Trucker Tuesday in the Baakens Valley and the RHBC Kragga Kamma Food Truck Friday, and the Easter Splash Festival at Kings Beach had more than 50 food trucks in 2026.

Can I hire a spit braai caterer outside Gqeberha?

Henry's Spitbraai says it caters across the Eastern Cape. Give the venue when you ask for a quote so travel can be included.

Are there halaal food trucks in the Eastern Cape?

In Gqeberha, Grab A Chow and Meraki Foods state that their food is strictly halaal.

Find a food truck in Eastern Cape

Pick a town above to see its trucks, then contact a truck directly to book it or to find out where it is trading.

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