Spring Food Truck Festival — Taste CT Street Food

Connecticut’s spring food truck circuit is opening with back-to-back festivals in Meriden and Glastonbury this week. (ctvisit.com) The 5th Annual Meriden Food Truck Festival runs Saturday, April 18, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Sunday, April 19, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Meriden Mall, 470 Lewis Ave. Organizers say admission and parking are free. (ctvisit.com) CTvisit says the Meriden event will feature 20 food trucks, plus contests, trivia, games, music, local crafters and small businesses. The listing also says children can meet special guests and see “Magic of Christopher” on Sunday. (ctvisit.com) The next stop is the Glastonbury Food Truck Festival, scheduled for April 25-26 at Glastonbury Elks Lodge, 98 Woodland St. in South Glastonbury. The organizer listing posts hours of 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on opening day. (ctcraftfairconnection.com) A statewide event calendar from CT Food Trucks lists Glastonbury on April 25-26 as one of Connecticut’s upcoming 2026 food truck festivals. The same calendar places Colchester on May 1-3 and Milford on May 23-25, showing the spring season is stacking multiple weekend events across the state. (ctfoodtrucks.com) That schedule helps explain the format of the week: not one single fairground event, but a run of local festivals spread across different towns and parking-lot venues. In Meriden, the mall lot is the site; in South Glastonbury, the Elks Lodge hosts the next weekend stop. (ctvisit.com) The Meriden event also shows how these festivals are built to be more than a lunch stop. CTvisit’s listing pairs the trucks with craft vendors and family entertainment, a setup that keeps people on site for several hours instead of a single meal. (ctvisit.com) For anyone planning around this week’s dates, the clearest confirmed details are the Meriden festival on April 18-19 and the Glastonbury festival on April 25-26. Both are already on live Connecticut event calendars as the spring street-food season gets underway. (ctvisit.com)