Battle for top NYC street chef

By Liz Hayden and Richard Morris
Associate Producers

You can find them on almost any street corner of New York City: your local street food vendors. Serving the masses from their open-air kitchens. Day and night, hot and cold. The city boasts some 6,000 food cart and trucks. But not all vendors are created equal. Street food has moved well beyond hot dog carts and peanut stands. Now you can find dumpling trucks, waffle trucks and almost everything in between.

To celebrate and recognize some of the top food chefs in New York, the Vendy Awards were established. Now in its fifth year, the competition has even paved the way for some to open an actual restaurant.