Top Chef All Stars  Marcel Vigneron and  Jamie Lauren  prepares Tomato and Melon Carpaccio during  Los Angeles Food & Wine Festival’s “Summer at the Shore,” at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel & Bungalows on Friday, Aug  10, 2012.

Executive Chef from The Wilshire and contestant on Bravo's Top Chef Season 9,  Nyesha Arrington and Executive Chef of  Michael's, John-Carlos Kuramoto, face-off in the Santa Monica Farmers Market "Chef Challenge" cooking competition during the 21st annual Santa Monica Festival at Clover Park on Saturday, May 19, 2012. Chef  Arrington prepared a shaved asparagus salad and Chef Kuramoto prepared an arugula and avocado salad. Chef  Arrington won the cooking competition.

The California Heritage Museum Executive Director Tobi Smith, presents Southern California Mobile Food Vendors Association’s CEO Matthew Geller with a certificate of appreciation in honor of  the one year anniversary of the Gourmet Food Truck Event on Tuesday, October 11, 2011. This event occurs weekly every Tuesday from 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at The California Heritage Museum and The Victorian’s parking lot, during which approximately ten trucks provide a variety of unique culinary experiences.

All trucks are members of the SoCal Mobile Food Vendors’ Association (SCMFVA). There are more than 100 members, so each week as the trucks rotate, cusumers will discover new and different eating experiences. 

Sit-down eating accommodations and restrooms are provided by The Victorian, while picnic grounds is available on the Heritage Museum’s lawn.  Beverages may be purchased at The Victorian, including water, soft drinks, beer, wine and mixed drinks from their full bar

To find out “what’s for dinner” visit the museum’s website californiaheritagemuseum.org  to see which trucks will be present..

Among the recent trucks to host their gourmet food are:

NomNom: Star of Food Network’s “Great Food Truck Race” serves “Bahn Mi” or Vietnamese  sandwiches and other Vietamese inspired dishes

TapaBoy: Adobo bowls and tapas

Calbi: Korean BBQ fusion tacos and burritos

Don Chow Tacos: “ Chino-meets-Latino” fusion

No Reservations: Combination California and French cuisine

India Jones: Gourmet Indian Food

CoolHaus: Gourmet, artisan, all-natural ice cream

All proceeds from SCMFVA lot rentals go directly to the California Heritage Museum’s community programming. To date, more than $50,000 has been donated to the Heritage Museum by the Association !!!

Limited free parking can be found behind the Heritage Museum in its parking lot.  Visitors to the Gourmet Food Truck event may also park in the adjacent metered parking lots that run North/South along the backside of Main Street (Neilson Way).  Valet car and free bike parking is available.

The California Heritage Museum and The Victorian are located on the corner of Main Street and Ocean Park Boulevard (2612 Main Street) in Santa Monica.  The event site is 1/2 mile south of Pico Boulevard and can be reached by the number 10 freeway. For additional information please contact the Heritage Museum at (310) 392-8537.

Pastry Chef from Spago Sherry Yard, (left) with Pastry chef Sally Camacho, demonstrate how to make apple strudel during the Good Food Festival and Street Fair at Santa Monica High School on Saturday, September 17, 2011.

Jaquelin Garcia serves a stack of free pancakes to Curt Lindsey and his son Courtney, 9, at the International house of Pancakes (IHOP) in Santa Monica during National Pancake Day on Tuesday March 1, 2011. National Pancake Day dates back several centuries to when the English prepped for fasting during Lent. Strict rules prohibited the eating of all dairy products during Lent, so pancakes were made to use up the supply of eggs, milk, butter and other dairy products, hence the name Pancake Tuesday, or Shrove Tuesday. IHOP served 4 million free pancakes on National Pancake Day 2010. All of the free pancakes served on National Pancake Day 2010 would have created a stack more than 31.5 miles high. Since the inception of National Pancake Day in 2006, IHOP has raised more than $5.35 million and given away more than 10.1 million pancakes to support charities in the communities in which it operates. National Pancake Day 2010 was IHOP’s largest one-day event in the company’s 52-year history.

Clark Staub from Full of Life cooks a flatbread pizza in a wood burning oven at the Santa Monica Farmers Market on Wednesday, February 9, 2011.

Blindfolded celebrity taste testers sample 'Baby's Badass Burgers' and 'Grill Em All' hamburgers during a filming of the Travel Channel's original series, "Food Wars," at Santa Monica beach on Friday, March 5, 2010. Food Wars pits the nation's most famous culinary rivals against each another for a final showdown, where a blind taste test settles the debate. Food Wars premieres on the travel Channel on Tuesday, March 9th at 9pm E/P.

The dineLA Food Truck with Chef Alain Giraud and the Anisette Bistro team hand out gourmet samples at the Third Street Promenade on Wednesday, September 30, 2009, while promoting dineLA's Restaurant Week. dineLA Restaurant Week is a two-week dining event established to introduce diners to the vast array of restaurants in neighborhoods throughout LA County. Local foodies and visitors to LA will have the opportunity to enjoy a selection of specially priced three-course meals from some of LA’s best restaurants during this dining event. dineLA Restaurant Week takes place over two consecutive weeks, excluding the Saturday between: October 4 – 9 and October 11 – 16, 2009. Participating restaurants will opt into one of three dining categories and present a specially priced three-course meal for lunch and/or dinner. Diners will be able to choose from three choices for each course including appetizer, entrée and dessert.  You can see dineLA Restaurant Week menus online here. Prices and meal periods vary by restaurant and exclude beverages, tax and gratuity.  dineLA Restaurant Week were created with two goals in mind—driving business for our local restaurant community; and building awareness for Los Angeles as one of the premier dining cities in the world.