The Great Food Truck Race premieres this month. How to watch episodes filmed on MS Coast

The Food Network’s Great Food Truck Race — a reality cooking show that rolled through the Mississippi Coast early this year — will premiere at the end of the month.

The show begins Sunday, June 30, at 7 p.m. with a two-hour episode on the Food Network Channel, according to a press release.

The popular show features nine food truck teams who traveled across the Gulf Coast for the 17th season. Many of those food trucks made stops in Biloxi, Ocean Springs and Pascagoula in February.

The show films each episode in a different city, and begins with a group of food trucks who compete in a series of challenges to make the most money. The teams that makes the least money in each location is eliminated, and as the competition jumps from city to city, host and celebrity chef Tyler Florence cuts teams until there is one left.

And that winner gets $50,000.

This season began in Houston. From there, the trucks moved to Galveston, Texas; Lake Charles, Louisiana; then Biloxi and beyond.

In February, six food trucks gathered in a semicircle on the lawn in front Harrah’s Casino. Fans formed long lines at several spots, including trucks that serve dessert-style waffles, dumplings and empanadas.

The show then moved to Pascagoula and Ocean Springs.

There, five trucks parked at The Shed BBQ & Blues Joint in Ocean Springs to film. They also stopped in downtown Ocean Springs and headed to the Jackson County fairgrounds in Pascagoula later that week.

The trucks then left the Mississippi Coast and traveled to Mobile before making stops in Florida and ending in Miami.

The catfish tacos from Fishnets food truck during the Great Food Truck Race in Biloxi, Mississippi on Feb. 3, 2024.
The catfish tacos from Fishnets food truck during the Great Food Truck Race in Biloxi, Mississippi on Feb. 3, 2024.

When to watch MS Coast episodes

All episodes will appear on the Food Network Channel.

The episode filmed in Biloxi airs at 8 p.m. July 14.

Food Network describes the episode, which is titled “Highway Robbery,” as a drama-packed event in which “one team struggles to stay together and comes back stronger than ever, while another team that was previously on top plummets to the bottom two.

“Though sales start booming, none of the teams are prepared for the backlash when they’re accused of price gouging,” the episode description says.

The Great Food Truck Race on the Great Lawn in front of Harrah’s Casino on Feb. 3, 2024.
The Great Food Truck Race on the Great Lawn in front of Harrah’s Casino on Feb. 3, 2024.

The episode filmed in Ocean Springs and Pascagoula will air a week later, at 7 p.m. July 21.

That episode is titled “Attack of the Tag Teams.” The episode features wrestling teams called The Acclaimed and The Gunns who join the food trucks in Pascagoula for what the network calls “an all-out brawl.”

“One team thinks they’re being clever by sitting out on Tyler’s challenge,” the episode’s description says, “but they soon come to regret their choices.”

Who are the food trucks?

This season features nine teams.

  • Argentina’s Empanadas, a crispy stuffed pastry empanada truck from Wichita, Kansas

  • Bao Bei, a Taiwanese street food truck from Washington, D.C.

  • Cooks with Passion, a “Caribbean New South cuisine” food truck from Atlanta

  • Down to Get Tacos, a “simple, authentic Mexican food” truck from Gilbert, Arizona

  • Fishnet, a seafood truck from Baltimore, Maryland

  • Kalye, a Filipino food truck from New York

  • Plates on Deck, an “eclectic soul food” truck from Davenport, Florida

  • SoLA PoBoys a Los Angeles, California based truck that sells unique po-boys

  • Wally’s Waffles, a gourmet waffles truck from Chicago

A closer look at the food trucks that came to Biloxi with the Great Food Truck Race