Off the Grid is coming south to Silicon Valley.
The San Francisco-based food truck festival is coming weekly to Cupertino on Tuesdays beginning April 22 and Sunnyvale on Thursdays.
The roaming mobile food event will be in Cupertino’s Whole Foods Market parking lot every Tuesday offering a series of food trucks in the style of a farmers market. The family-friendly event runs from 5 to 9 p.m.
Off the Grid will have nine rotating vendors along with live local music acts on a weekly basis just outside the supermarket, 20955 Stevens Creek Blvd. The group began collaborating with Whole Foods in 2012.
The April 22 event will feature Lobsta Truck, Oaxacan Kitchen, Little, Green Cyclo, Maxwell St, We Sushi, Gold Rush, Hill Country BBQ and Cupkates.
Off the Grid is also coming to Sunnyvale on a weekly basis with its first event already held April 17 at the Sports Basement, 1177 Kern Avenue, at Lawrence Expressway. The next Off the Grid event in Sunnyvale will be April 24 from 5 to 9 p.m.
The company began in June 2010 and currently operates 28 weekly markets in six counties across the Bay Area, and works with more than 175 vendors serving dinner and lunch weekly. To date, the Cupertino and Sunnyvale events will be the most southern Off the Grid stops.
Off the Grid received a permit in February after both Cupertino Planning Commission approval and further review by the Cupertino City Council. Off the Grid owner Matt Cohen told the Cupertino council that potentially 1,200 different people could roll through the market at various times to grab a quick meal during the four-hour window.
“We’re trying to bring people out of their homes during a time where they might cook and have them come outside, eat, shop and wander to other places,” Cohen told the council during a February meeting.
For more information and a list of upcoming markets, visit OffTheGridSF.com or Facebook.com/OffTheGridSF.
