Larkin Square returns

Larkin Square’s Food Truck Tuesday is coming back on June 2, restarting Buffalo’s weekly summer food-truck gathering for its 13th season. (larkinsquare.com) The event will run every Tuesday from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. through August 25 at Larkin Square, 745 Seneca Street in Buffalo. Larkin Square said it expects about 20 trucks each week from a rotation of more than 40 vendors from Buffalo and Rochester. (larkinsquare.com) The 2026 season also includes live local music each week, starting with La Krema on June 2 and ending with Will Holton on August 25. Buffalo Toronto Public Media reported the lineup includes five new food trucks this year. (larkinsquare.com) (btpm.org) Food Truck Tuesday is one of Larkin Square’s anchor events, alongside the Wednesday concert series KeyBank Live at Larkin. The square markets the Tuesday event as “Buffalo’s biggest dinner party,” with food, music, beer, wine and nonalcoholic drinks built around a recurring after-work crowd. (larkinsquare.com 1) (larkinsquare.com 2) That schedule gives mobile vendors a fixed weekly stop during the busiest outdoor months, when repeat foot traffic can matter as much as one-off festival sales. Visit Buffalo lists the event as free to attend and describes it as a recurring weekly draw for trucks from Buffalo, Rochester and beyond. (visitbuffalo.com) (larkinsquare.com) The event has become a marker of the season in Buffalo’s Larkinville district, where Larkin Square has spent years programming public events to pull visitors into the neighborhood. The square’s event calendar also includes author talks, fitness programming and the summer concert series. (larkinsquare.com 1) (larkinsquare.com 2) For visitors, the setup is meant to be simple: free admission, designated event parking lots and a weekly Tuesday window that stays consistent through the summer. On June 2, that routine starts up again. (larkinsquare.com 1) (larkinsquare.com 2)