Hartford’s new food truck park to open Friday
West Side Square Hartford, the new food truck park on Farmington Avenue in the West End, will have its grand opening on Friday, its developer, Quan Quach, said Thursday.
Quan and Rebeca Quach, who live in the neighborhood, had hoped to open Westside Square by the end of May, but the opening had to be pushed back due to delays with zoning, permitting and construction.
Plans for the food truck park were to include a central pergola, a stage and seating for dozens of people on huge wooden wire spools. The planning for the park started a year ago, and Quan Quach headed up the construction using repurposed materials.
Quan Quach is a contractor who once owned Red Plate and Asylum Café restaurants in Hartford and also operated the now-dormant Baba Ganoush truck in collaboration with the Tangiers food store.
The park, at the corner of Farmington and Girard Avenues, will be open from 4 to 9 p.m.
Kenyon, a band made up of Quach, Aaron Patterson, Peter Kennedy and David Reynolds, will perform from 7 to 9 p.m.
The park will be open Wednesday through Sunday, hosting up to four trucks at a time in a rotation. Other than the trucks, no motorized vehicles are allowed on the property. Visitors can arrive by foot or by bicycle.
Susan Dunne can be reached at sdunne@courant.com
