Here are all the places to eat during the Azalea Festival street fair

WILMINGTON — There are many reasons to check out the Azalea Festival this weekend, but one of the best is the street food.

The street fair will feature 21 food vendors this year, including some several regional and local favorites. Among the local vendors will be Wilmington’s Poor Piggy’s BBQ, the area’s first food truck for barbecue, including eastern North Carolina style pulled pork and barbecued brisket. Also local is Kona Ice, serving frozen desserts, from Hampstead.

Regionally, several North Carolina vendors will be participating. For snacks, there are cracklins from Yadkin River Pork Skins, or roasted sweet potato from Charlotte-based Jus’ Roastin.

For something more coastal, there’s Flounders Seafood, which closed as a restaurant after being a New Bern staple for a decade. Flounders carried on as a catering company and will be serving fresh seafood.

The Greensboro food truck Hot Diggity Dog will be serving Nathan’s hot dogs (about a dozen different ways). From Matthews, N.C., the Steak Boys will bring 30 years of gyro – and other classic sandwich – expertise.

For those looking for vegetarian options, Raleigh-based food truckers Party in a Pita serve classic Mediterranean street food, including tabouli, falafel and hummus. And, to wash it all down, there’s frozen drinks from the distinctively-named Moose Joose Slush, out of Mooresville.

There will also be vendors serving everything from cinnamon rolls to jerked chicken.

We’ve got a full list of the vendors (and in most cases their specialties) below.

1. Party IN A Pita – Mediterranean, vegetarian
2. Lee’s Kitchen – Jamaican food, jerk chicken, island-style curry
3. Jus’ Roastin – roasted corn, potato and sweet potato
4. J.M. Chang’s – Chinese cuisine
5. That’s a wrap – healthier fare, veggie wraps
6. Funtastic Foods – scratch-made food, bacon-wrapped chicken, giant bratwurst
7. Steak Boys Inc. – fried chicken on a stick, gyros, steak sandwiches
8. Wild Bills Soda – gourmet sodas, root beers and sarsaparilla
9. MOOSE JOOSE SLUSH – frozen beverages
10. Laughing Crab Catering – seafood, crab cakes
11. Flounders Seafood – local seafood
12. Almost Heaven Concessions – cinnamon rolls, desserts
13. MacBrand Foods, Inc. – classic street food, corn dogs, sausage sandwiches, burgers
14. Hot Diggity Dog – Nathan’s hot dogs
15. Asia Fusion Elite – pan-Asian food
16. Yadkin River Pork Skins – lip smacking cracklins for snacking with no looking back
17. Pinay Grocery, LLC – North Carolina based Filipino cuisine
18. Alicia’s MozzArepas – sweet-corn bread stuffed with mozzarella cheese
19. Poor Piggy’s – BBQ pork, brisket, chicken fingers
20. Leisure Time Concessions
21. Kona-Ice of Coastal Carolina, LLC – frozen deserts

The street fair runs April 7 to 9, and will be open Friday, 6 – 10 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. – 10 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. (Hungry festival-goers should note, not all food vendors will be set up on Friday night.)

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