Crave Heat food truck

Crave Heat is one of 15 food trucks participating in Friday's "Street Food Season" kickoff at A.M. Booth's Lumberyard in downtown Huntsville. (Contributed photo)

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - Fifteen food trucks will descend on downtown Huntsville this Friday night to kick off the city's inaugural "Street Food Season."

The event is scheduled for 6-9 p.m. inside and outside A.M. Booth's Lumberyard, 108 Cleveland Ave. Admission is free and includes live music from the Big Spring Brass Band, Rocket City Jazz Orchestra and Rocket City Latin Band.

Downtown Huntsville Inc., which is organizing the event, is calling it "the largest congregation of street food vendors anywhere in Alabama."

The following mobile food vendors are expected to be on hand: Badd Newz BBQ; Big Foot's Donuts; Crave Heat; Brain Freeze Mobile IceCream; Dallas Mill Deli; Earth & Stone Wood Fired Pizza; Food Fighters Bustaurant; I Love Bacon Truck; Neon Lilly; On-On Tacos; Peppered Pig; Piper & Leaf Teas; Rocket City Espresso; Rocket Dogs; Rollin Lobstah; and Sugar Belle Cupcakes.

"We've had over 1,000 people at our previous food truck events, so we're expecting a similar-sized crowd this time," Downtown Huntsville Inc. CEO Chad Emerson said Monday. "It's just another example of the interest growing in downtown."

Friday's Street Food Season kickoff will also be one of the first large public gatherings in the Meridian Arts & Entertainment District, the smaller of two downtown districts with relaxed open-container rules created last summer. It encompasses 10 acres around the Meridian Street-Cleveland Avenue intersection, including Bud Cramer Park, A.M. Booth's Lumberyard, Furniture Factory Bar & Grill and Lone Goose Saloon.

Other public street food gatherings are scheduled for the third Friday of May, June, July, August, September and October at parking lots in the Meridian and Quigley arts and entertainment districts, said Emerson.

Updated April 15 at 3:42 p.m. to add Rollin Lobstah to the list of food vendors.

Updated April 15 at 11:02 a.m. to correct the name of Brain Freeze Mobile IceCream truck.