Sep 27, 2009 2:41 pm US/Eastern
Taco Cart Wins NYC's Street Vendor Award
QUEENS (CBS) ―
A husband and wife who sell tacos and quesadillas have been named New York City's best street vendors.
Fernando and Yolanda Martinez took first place at the fifth annual Vendy Awards on Saturday.
The Vendy Awards celebrate the best of the city's street food. The Martinezes make Mexican specialties out of their cart at the Red Hook ballfield in Brooklyn. Fernando Martinez said he was happy to know that people love his food.
About 700 hundred people attended the awards ceremony at the Queens Museum of Art. An Austrian food cart called Schnitzel and Things was named rookie of the year.
The Vendy Awards are a cook-off between the best sidewalks chefs in New York City
for the Vendy Award trophy and the title of Vendy Award winner.
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