Burger Food Trucks in South Africa

Fat Cat's Mobile eatery

Fat Cat's Mobile Eatery is a pub-grub-on-wheels operation based in the northern suburbs of Cape Town, serving burgers made with beef or chicken. The Original comes with melted cheese, house sauce and pickles, while the Fire Cat swaps in habanero smash and Asian chilli crunch oil. Customers can add cheese, bacon or a double patty. They pop up at venues such as The RoundAbout Pub in Kuils River and have served at community events.

Cape Town, Western Cape

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Fork It Foodtruck

Fork It is a branded food trailer that serves events, corporate lunches and parties around Cape Town. The menu is built around crispy chicken burgers, cheesy beef burgers, loaded nachos, hot dogs and mac 'n' cheese. It is run by the Holy Macaroni team, and you book it through the quote request form on their website.

Cape Town, Western Cape

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Freedom Food Truck

Freedom Food Truck is a pink food truck trading on the Kraaifontein side of Cape Town, serving hot dogs, burgers and cold drinks from the truck window. Phone ahead to find out where it is parked.

Cape Town, Western Cape

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Fudart strEATERY

Fudart strEATERY is a big orange Bedford bus converted into a self-contained street food kitchen, run by the Durban catering company Fudart. It serves gourmet street food such as burgers, bunny chow, bao buns, burritos, designer dogs and noodle bowls, with starters and desserts as add-ons. The truck is hired for concerts, conferences, weddings, functions and house parties around KwaZulu-Natal.

Durban, KwaZulu-Natal

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GMW Spitbraai

GMW Spitbraai is a Durban catering business built around slow-cooked lamb on the spit, using its own gas-operated spit braais. It trades from a food truck at the Shongweni Farmers & Craft Market on Saturdays, selling lamb rolls and burgers, and also caters weddings, private and corporate functions. The cocktail lamb roll and burger come with salads such as potato and pasta salad. Spit braai hire is also offered.

Durban, KwaZulu-Natal

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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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Ground Culture Food Trucks

Ground Culture Food Trucks sells burgers from food trucks around Cape Town. Trucks trade at Glenhof Manor in Claremont, Atlantic Surf in Blouberg and Main Road in Sea Point, and the business also serves events. Burgers are named after well-known South Africans, and coffee is available at some trucks. Opening hours differ by truck.

Cape Town, Western Cape

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Hangry Chef Gourmet Food Truck

Hangry Chef runs a red gourmet food truck for corporate functions, weddings, birthdays and other private events around Sandton and greater Gauteng. The truck serves street food favourites such as burgers, sliders and tacos, with desserts and drinks available. They also offer buffet catering, canapes and tapas, and a pop-up setup for venues with limited space. Bookings are made directly with the business by phone, email or the website booking form.

Sandton, Gauteng

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JACK RABBiT Mobile Kitchen

Jack Rabbit Mobile Kitchen is a black food trailer from Durbanville in Cape Town that serves gourmet burgers with branded buns, pulled pork rolls, cubanos, sliders, quesadillas and fries, with sauces made in-house. Most of its work is catering for weddings, corporate functions, birthdays and private parties, often on Winelands wine farms, and it also appears at public events such as Nights at Norval and Villiera's Fizzy Therapy. Custom menus are offered, including vegetarian burgers and canapes, and the trailer travels to venues across the Western Cape.

Cape Town, Western Cape

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Jango Cafe

Jango Cafe is a burger and ribs business that trades from a food bus and at food truck sites in Cape Town's southern suburbs. The menu covers beef and chicken burgers with chips, sticky basted ribs and milkshakes. The bus trades on set evenings from 58 Kromboom Road in Rondebosch East, and the team has also served at Trucks Access Park in Kenilworth, where it joined the September 2026 line-up, at The Courtyard in Claremont and at markets such as the Onpoint Food Market. Orders can be placed by SMS or WhatsApp.

Cape Town, Western Cape

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Joe & Co.

Joe & Co is a mobile food trailer serving charcoal-grilled smashburgers in Cape Town. The menu has beef burgers in double and triple stacks, a Nashville fried chicken burger and loaded beef fries, plus mojitos and daiquiris. It operates on weekends, takes pre-orders online and on Uber Eats, and is available for private events. Follow its Instagram for where it parks.

Cape Town, Western Cape

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Kom Byt We Grill, You Chill

Kom Byt is a food truck serving meals to corporate and industrial sites in Durbanville, Kraaifontein, Brackenfell and surrounds. The trailer offers burgers, wraps and chips, including a loaded veggie burger, and can be booked for events. Orders and event enquiries go through WhatsApp or the phone number on their Facebook page.

Cape Town, Western Cape

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Lone Star Burger Bar

Lone Star is a burger bar food truck set up at The Westville Warehouse in Westville, Durban. It serves burgers, crispy chicken strips and loaded fries, and is open Wednesday to Sunday from 12 noon until 9pm. The truck trades from a fixed spot at the warehouse rather than moving between markets.

Durban, KwaZulu-Natal

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Love Bites

Love Bites is a food truck that trades on the Blouberg beachfront in Cape Town and also does events. The menu centres on brisket beef cheese burgers, American-style hotdogs and boerewors rolls with caramelised onion, all served with freshly hand-cut chips. Ice cream is available in several flavours for hot days. The truck moves around the beachfront area depending on the day, and also appears at street parties and other events.

Cape Town, Western Cape

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LuviesFood Food Trucks

LuviesFood runs a food truck and event food stalls out of Bryanston, serving Johannesburg, Pretoria and the rest of Gauteng. The fusion menu covers burgers, bao buns, tacos and burritos, chicken strips, ribs and wings, served in biodegradable packaging. They are hired for weddings, birthdays, corporate events, markets and festivals, and can add a mobile bar with cocktails, beers and coffee. Pricing is per meal plus a call-out fee, quoted on request. They do not rent out trucks.

Johannesburg, Gauteng

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Mac Smashed

Mac Smashed is a halaal smash burger trailer based at Trucks Access Park in Kenilworth, Cape Town. The menu centres on 100 g smashed beef patties with cheese, pickles, onion and sauces, in options such as the Classic, MS, Cape and the chilli-loaded Inferno Smash, served with chips, plus a kiddies burger. Specials have included a paratha smash burger and chicken smash burgers. The trailer has also traded at the Onpoint Market in Green Point, and the team offers on-site burger catering and party boxes for events, booked by email. Access Park orders are also on Uber Eats.

Cape Town, Western Cape

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Meat MyKitchen Food Truck

Meat MyKitchen is a gourmet street food truck based in Muldersdrift on the West Rand. The menu covers breakfast, chimichangas, burgers, braai plates and salads, along with their own Simply Wild chilli sauces. They cater for corporate events and private functions, tailor menus to the size of the event, and also trade at markets. Bookings and enquiries go through phone or WhatsApp.

Muldersdrift, Gauteng

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Monty's Spitbraai & Catering

Monty's Spitbraai & Catering brings spit-roast lamb, traditional braai meats, steaks and a gourmet burger bar to weddings, corporate functions and private parties in Cape Town. The menu also covers shawarma-style pitas, salads, hot vegetables, platters and desserts, with halaal options available. They also run a pop-up at Mojo Market in Sea Point. Quotes are per person, with a minimum of 30 guests and delivery options for smaller groups.

Cape Town, Western Cape

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Mountain Chicken and Game

Mountain Chicken and Game is a trailer kitchen based in Haenertsburg, Limpopo. They cook fresh meals to order at farmers markets and local events, so customers can watch their food being prepared, and make burgers with game meat. They hope to cater for larger events and private parties. Phone them to find out where they are trading.

Haenertsburg, Limpopo

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MUNCHIES Food Trailer

Munchies is a food trailer serving fast food at affordable prices: chips, boerewors rolls, beef burgers, and pulled pork, pulled brisket, pork belly and pork neck rolls, with combo deals that add chips and a cooldrink. It trades on weekdays from Plane Road in Spartan, Kempton Park, taking WhatsApp orders for collection, and has been listed at local open air markets and motocross events. It can also be booked for events.

Kempton Park, Gauteng

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Onrustige Plekkie

Onrustige Plekkie is a street-food truck at Hungry Town in Atlantis. It serves loaded fries, wraps, burgers and coffee, including a smash burger topped with a crumbed macaroni slab. They deliver in Atlantis, Pella and Mamre for a flat fee and take orders by WhatsApp.

Atlantis, Western Cape

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Outstabulous Catering and Events

Outstabulous is a food truck and catering business in Gqeberha selling burgers, kotas, boerewors rolls and breakfast boxes. The truck trades at events such as Happy Valley and the Heritage Festival, and sells from Cotswold. It also supplies corporate lunches and staff functions of 10 meals or more, and can be booked for events.

Gqeberha, Eastern Cape

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Rack n Grill

Rack n Grill is a halaal food truck and catering business led by chef Mo Kasu, best known for flame-grilled beef ribs and hand-pressed beef and chicken burgers. Its function menu adds sticky wings, loaded fries, chops, braai boxes, starters and desserts. The self-contained trailer works corporate events, weddings, festivals, schools, film shoots and community events around Cape Town, and the team also runs a delivery-only kitchen and office platters.

Cape Town, Western Cape

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Republic of Braai

Republic of Braai is a food truck serving braai-style meat at corporate events and parties around Johannesburg. Dishes include hickory smoked pork belly with fresh slaw, a 100% beef burger, and apple smoked chicken with slaw and caramelised onions. Phone to book the truck.

Johannesburg, Gauteng

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Smaquè Stack

Smaquè Stack is a halaal smash burger spot trading from a trailer at Treat Street, the food truck section below The Pearls in Umhlanga. The menu has charcoal-bun and cheddar smash burgers, a toasted grilled cheese burger, waffle fries and chip twisters on a stick. The brand also trades from Sugar Rush Park in Ballito and Florida Food Hub in Durban. Open every day from 10am to 10pm, and available on Uber Eats and Mr D.

uMhlanga, KwaZulu-Natal

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Smokey Bros

Smokey Bros is a Cape Town food truck started by two friends who love fire and a good braai. The menu is built around smoked brisket: a Smoked Brisket Burger, a cheesy jalapeno brisket dog and loaded fries, plus chicken burgers, chicken strips, smoked Russian dogs and plain fries. They trade at Cape Town markets and local pop-ups, have been found at Makro Cape Gate, and can be hired for private events. Orders are also taken on Mr D.

Cape Town, Western Cape

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Talladega Grill

Talladega Grill is a Texas-style smokehouse with a food trailer that goes to events, street spots and private functions. The trailer serves smash burgers, oak-smoked brisket, ribs and wings, along with sides such as fries and coleslaw. The business is ICSA Halaal certified. There is also a sit-down and takeaway restaurant in Lansdowne, and catering platters are available for corporate and private events.

Cape Town, Western Cape

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The Chef Guy Food Truck

The Chef Guy Food Truck is a Gqeberha food truck that serves burgers and trades at local events, including Sunday events at Norm Hudlin Trails and classic car shows. Its branding carries the line 'It's burger time'. Its Facebook page announces where the truck will be parked next.

Gqeberha, Eastern Cape

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The Filthy Moustache

The Filthy Moustache is a Johannesburg food truck outfit serving gourmet burgers and loaded hot dogs, with toppings such as crispy bacon, caramelised onions, jalapeños, guacamole and feta on freshly baked rolls. Its black-and-gold trucks are hired out for weddings, corporate functions, festivals and private parties across Johannesburg and Pretoria, and the company also offers a coffee bar, a mobile bar caravan, a pop-up stall, ice cream and a DJ van for events. Besides the trucks, the brand runs a fixed burger joint on Walters Street in Rosebank and a spot inside The Barn at Westown Square in Shongweni, KZN.

Johannesburg, Gauteng

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The Flipside Cafe

The Flipside Cafe is a travelling plant-based kitchen run from a red trailer, serving vegan food at festivals and at private and corporate functions. The menu features burgers with sweet potato chips, loaded bowls, a vegan hot dog, mixed plates and desserts such as brownies. It is based in Florida, Roodepoort, and can be booked for catering.

Roodepoort, Gauteng

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The Grub Hub

The Grub Hub is a mobile food trailer in the Hermanus area serving what they call Epic Roadside Eats: no frills, just flavour. The menu centres on lamb shawarmas, 100% beef burgers and beef wors rolls. The trailer is also available for functions and events.

Hermanus, Western Cape

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The Jackal Eatery and Catering

The Jackal Eatery and Catering is a mobile catering unit in the northern suburbs of Cape Town that brings its food truck to events, markets and festivals. Menus are tailored to the occasion and budget. Dishes they have shared include burgers (chipotle cheese and lemon-herb chicken), a full hot dog, salmon poke bowls, spring rolls and canape boards. Owner and chef Jaco cooks a mix of local and international flavours.

Cape Town, Western Cape

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The NOB Food Truck

The NOB Food Truck is the mobile side of The NOB (No Ordinary Burger), a burger restaurant at Tygerfalls in Bellville known for oversized burgers. The navy trailer can be booked for events and serves a short burger menu, all topped with lettuce, tomato, onion and pickles: a plain Captain, a cheesy Captain, the Porra with garlicky prego sauce, the bacon-and-cheese Porker, a jalapeno Chilli Cheese and the Full House with chilli, cheese and bacon. The truck has served at outdoor functions, park events and quayside catering in Cape Town.

Cape Town, Western Cape

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The Smash Box Food Truck

The Smash Box food truck serves halaal smash burgers from a branded trailer parked at Access Park in Kenilworth, Cape Town. The truck keeps to a short smash burger menu: the OG Smash, Oklahoma Onion Smash and Macon & Smash, each as a single, double or triple, with a fries and cooldrink meal as an add-on. It can also be booked for markets, private functions, corporate days and community events. The Smash Box also runs a separate restaurant in Sybrand Park.

Cape Town, Western Cape

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The Smash Burger Truck

The Smash Burger Truck is a food trailer on the Langebaan peninsula serving smash burgers, toasted sandwiches, chips, samoosas, coffee and milkshakes. The burger board runs from a single smash to a double, plus macon and cheese, chicken, vegetarian and kiddies burgers, and a chicken wrap. It sets up at spots around Langebaan, including Kraalbaai, and has also traded in Saldanha. The menu board carries a halaal logo.

Langebaan, Western Cape

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The Voetsek Kitchen

The Voetsek Kitchen is a food trailer in Hout Bay serving hearty, home-style food. Its menu has featured shwarmas and falafel wraps, burgers, boerewors rolls, vetkoek, toasties, juices and coffee, along with home-cooked specials such as lasagna and soups. It has traded from the Main Road and Promenade area in Hout Bay and from the Oudekraal viewpoint.

Hout Bay, Western Cape

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Truck Norris

Truck Norris is a yellow burger trailer from Cape Town, run by the team behind That Food Truck Company. The menu is built around free-range beef burgers on toasted brioche buns, a crumbed chicken burger, triple-fried chips, sweet potato fries, onion rings, milkshakes and desserts, with breakfast rolls, bagels, prego rolls and hot dogs offered for catering. The truck works festivals, sports events and private and corporate functions, is a regular on film and TV sets, and has served at events such as the Cape Epic, the Cape Town Sevens and the Black Coffee Weekender.

Cape Town, Western Cape

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TurnUp Food Truck SA

TurnUp Food Truck SA is a mobile food operator serving gourmet burgers, braai plates, starters such as chicken strips and loaded fries, and desserts like brownies and malva pudding. They also run a coffee caravan and mobile bar setups with craft beer, wine and cocktails. They work from Gauteng, mainly Johannesburg and Pretoria, with some events in Durban, and are booked for corporate events, private parties and festivals through a quote form.

Johannesburg, Gauteng

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Vagabond Kitchens

Vagabond Kitchens is a Cape Town food business with cafes on Kloof Street in Gardens, in the Silo District at the V&A Waterfront and on Main Road in Rondebosch, and an events catering arm. The menu leans on wraps and salads, burgers and baguettes, flatbreads, breakfasts, plated meals, coffee, smoothies and fresh juices, with vegan and vegetarian options marked. For events the team caters weddings, corporate functions, private dinners and festivals, and says it can bring a mobile food market setup or a food truck. Event quotes are requested through the website, and food can be ordered online or through their app.

Cape Town, Western Cape

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Wicked Bites

Wicked Bites is a Cape Town food trailer serving Tex-Mex flavours and smoked meats. The menu includes street tacos, quesadillas, smoked cheese griller dogs, corn dogs, burgers and loaded fries. It has no permanent trading spot and works events, music festivals, carnivals, corporate functions and private birthday parties. Bookings are taken by phone, WhatsApp or email, or through its Facebook and Instagram pages.

Cape Town, Western Cape

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Woodstock Food Truck

The Woodstock Food Truck is run by Woodstock Brewery, the craft brewery on Albert Road in Woodstock, Cape Town. Menus are agreed with each client, with popular formats including burgers and fries, ribs, wings and loaded fries, bratwurst, gourmet 180g burgers with sides, canape platters prepared in advance, and high-volume fries for school and family days. The truck works school and campus events, markets and festivals, concerts, sports days and races, corporate functions and private parties such as birthdays and weddings. For some private functions the brewery can also supply its beer on tap, where licensing allows.

Cape Town, Western Cape

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Yummies Fast Food

Yummies Fast Food is a halaal food trailer from Cape Town serving burgers with chips, steak and prego rolls, boerewors rolls and chicken wings. Burgers include a cheese burger, mushroom burger, Tex Mex burger and chilli cheese burger. The trailer has no permanent spot and moves between events such as fun runs, rugby club festivals, beach events, night markets and motorsport days at Killarney. They also cater for parties, corporate and year-end functions, team building and weddings.

Cape Town, Western Cape

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Ziggy's Burger Joint

Ziggy's Burger Joint is a halaal burger and grill business in Lansdowne, Cape Town, with a sit-down shop on Imam Haron Road and a branded food trailer that goes out to events. The menu covers beef, chicken and smashed burgers served with fries, lemon pepper buffalo wings, chicken tenders, beef ribs and rib boxes, and 300g steaks with mushroom or pepper sauce, plus milkshakes. The trailer has traded at the Truck and Grub spot in Rylands and is available to book for events, festivals, corporate functions and private parties. Orders and bookings go through their WhatsApp number, and daily locations are posted on Instagram and TikTok.

Cape Town, Western Cape

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Zuney Wagyu

Zuney serves American-style smash burgers made with Wagyu beef from its own herd in the Zuney Valley in the Eastern Cape. The short menu covers a classic burger, a cheeseburger, a 'Wacon' burger and a vegan burger, with Wagyu fries and sweet potato fries on the side. Alongside its burger bars on Kloof Street in Gardens, Cape Town, at Nine Yards in Rosebank, Johannesburg, and in St Francis Bay, Zuney runs a branded burger trailer that can be booked for festivals, private parties, birthdays and weddings. Trailer bookings are handled by an events coordinator through an enquiry form on the Zuney website.

Cape Town, Western Cape

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Love Bites

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Mac Smashed

Meat MyKitchen Food Truck

Monty's Spitbraai & Catering

Mountain Chicken and Game

MUNCHIES Food Trailer

Onrustige Plekkie

Outstabulous Catering and Events

Rack n Grill

Republic of Braai

Smaquè Stack

Smokey Bros

Talladega Grill

The Chef Guy Food Truck

The Filthy Moustache

The Flipside Cafe

The Grub Hub

The Jackal Eatery and Catering

The NOB Food Truck

The Smash Box Food Truck

The Smash Burger Truck

The Voetsek Kitchen

Truck Norris

TurnUp Food Truck SA

Vagabond Kitchens

Wicked Bites

Woodstock Food Truck

Yummies Fast Food

Ziggy's Burger Joint

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