Food trucks in Cape Town

Lamb on the spit, carved at your venue, is the standard offer. Mad About Spit Braai serves it with salads, roast potatoes and malva pudding. Asado Spitbraai cooks in the Argentine asado style, adds snoek and a potjie, and needs at least 35 guests. BeefUp Spitbraais & Smokehouse in Grassy Park sizes whole lambs by headcount, from a half lamb for 20 to a 29-30 kg lamb for 60.

Kalahari Spitbraai & Catering works from Kraaifontein and offers drop-and-collect if you supply the meat. Spitbraai Feast in Mitchells Plain delivers free within 25 km, and Oor die Kole Spitbraai & Catering covers Bellville and greater Cape Town from 30 guests.

Joe & Co. grills double and triple smash burgers over charcoal on weekends and posts where it parks on Instagram. Zuney Wagyu uses beef from its own Eastern Cape herd and hires out a branded trailer. Ground Culture Food Trucks sells smash burgers on Main Road in Sea Point, at Glenhof Manor in Claremont and next to Atlantic Surf in Blouberg.

Truck Norris has served the Cape Epic and the Cape Town Sevens with free-range beef on brioche. For hot dogs, Captain Corndog from Zeekoevlei makes cheese and ostrich corndogs and lists its food as halaal, and Love Bites serves American hotdogs and boerewors rolls on the Blouberg beachfront.

Love Pizza has kept a wood-fired truck next to the Friendly supermarket and BP garage in Sun Valley, Noordhoek, since 2019. It opens every day except Monday and sends two trailers and a second truck to events. Earthfire Pizza, a Noordhoek family business that also makes ceramic ovens, has a stall at Mojo Market and parks at the Noordhoek Garden Emporium on Fridays.

For a private party, Pizza Piaggio bakes Neapolitan-style pizza in an oven built into a Piaggio tuk-tuk, and Pizza Shed brings its 72-hour canotto dough to weddings as Pizza Shed On The Move. Na J's Grills does a halaal wood-fired chicken tikka pizza.

The Wicked Waffle makes Brussels and sugar waffles, trades on Friday evenings at The Range in Tokai, and says it is halaal certified and kosher. Sugar Fix Creations serves waffles, soft serve and banana splits and has worked the Friday food truck evenings in Table View. Two Sisters Pancake Club sells mini pancakes, boba and waffles on a stick around Constantia.

For a wedding dessert station, Crêpe Town makes crepes on site, including gluten-free and dairy-free ones, and Crumbs & Cream hires out a cart for made-to-order ice-cream sandwiches.

Table View and the Blouberg strip have the most regular street trading in the north. Shawarma Express, a red truck based in Table View, serves shawarma and falafel in pita. @Last Food Truck works the Blouberg beachfront and the Friday evenings at Echium Park, and Taco Mel takes tacos and walking doritos to markets and wine estates around Durbanville.

Black Top Street Kitchen parks on Vasco Boulevard in Goodwood from Friday to Sunday with chicken tikka on naan and loaded boerewors rolls. Die Kosmos sells toasties and breakfast buns from the Padstal Deli in Brackenfell, and JACK RABBiT Mobile Kitchen, from Durbanville, does most of its work at private functions, often on Winelands wine farms.