For years the summer rhythm here was simple: a food truck showed up on the Township Campus every Wednesday from mid-June to late August, you grabbed lunch, you went back to work. That cadence has changed. The 2026 season starts a full three weeks earlier, runs a full six weeks later, gives you an extra hour at lunch, and only lands every other Wednesday. If you have been walking over to Dublin Drive expecting the old pattern, you have already missed a couple.
The trade the Township made is worth thinking about. A weekly ritual is easy to remember and easy to skip. A biweekly one you either put on the calendar or you lose. The upside is a longer season and a more curated vendor list, most of them Detroit-area operators rather than generic caterers.
The 2026 Food Truck Wednesdays Schedule
The trucks park in the BCTV studio lot at 4190 Dublin Drive, one block south of Long Lake and one block west of Telegraph. Lunch runs 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., open to residents and to anyone working in the area.
| Date | Truck |
|---|---|
| May 27 | Tacos El Guero |
| June 10 | Deutsch Troit |
| June 24 | Motor City Street Treats |
| July 8 | Circle T |
| July 22 | Simply Spanish and Detroit Mini Donut |
| August 5 | KDubs Grill |
| August 19 | Shinobi Street Food |
| September 2 | Good Eats Mobile |
| September 16 | Twisted Street BBQ |
| September 30 | Heavenly Chicken and Waffles |
A few of these are worth flagging. Deutsch Troit is one of the harder trucks to catch on a weekday schedule anywhere in Oakland County. The July 22 doubleheader is the only day with two vendors, so if you have kids or a team from the office, that is the one to circle. And September 30 as a closer, with a chicken-and-waffles truck heading into a Michigan fall, is a nicer bookend than the old August wind-down.
The schedule is on the Township site at bloomfieldtwp.org/foodtruck, and the Township has asked people to follow their social channels for last-minute swaps, since the list is subject to change.
Woodward Is Getting a Hospitality Address, Not Just a Drive-Through
The bigger story this year is not the trucks. It is what is being built along the Woodward corridor between the Bloomfield Town Square area and downtown Pontiac. For a long stretch the Township's Woodward frontage has read as a place you pass through on the way to a destination. That is starting to shift.
The most immediate change is at 42983 Woodward Avenue, where the Detroit-based G&B Hospitality group signed a lease this spring to bring a second Patty & Press location to the Township. Co-owner Goran Dimic told What Now Detroit the group is targeting a September or October opening. Their existing location on Van Dyke has built a following around a short menu of smashburgers, truffle fries, and milkshakes. The Woodward site will share a building with a FedEx Office, sitting near Chicken Shack, Jimmy John's, and Cold Stone Creamery. It is not a fine-dining move. It is a fill-in-the-gap move, and those tend to signal that a corridor's daytime traffic is now worth chasing.
The longer-horizon project is more ambitious. Zack Sklar, whose portfolio includes Mex and Beau's Grillery, is developing a private event venue called Bloomfield Hollow on more than 30 acres of undeveloped land on Franklin Road just north of Square Lake. Sklar's team is breaking ground this year with a late-2027 opening reported by Crain's. Catering will run out of the same operation. For residents on the west side of the Township, this is the first serious hospitality investment in that pocket in a long time, and it changes the calculus for anyone planning a milestone party who has, until now, defaulted to a country club or a downtown Birmingham room.
Put the two projects next to each other and the read is straightforward. A quick-service burger operator is willing to bet on Woodward's weekday lunch counter. A veteran fine-dining chef is willing to commit thirty acres and a two-and-a-half-year build to a private-event concept off Franklin Road. Those are not the same bet, and they are not aimed at the same customer. Together, they suggest the Township is being taken seriously as a place where hospitality operators can find both volume and margin, in different parts of the map.
If You Want a Wednesday Evening, Cross Hiller Road
The Township's own summer programming leans toward the lunch hour and the daytime crowd. The evening equivalent lives just over the West Bloomfield line, at Marshbank Park on Hiller Road, where the Marshbank Music Series has settled into a four-Wednesday August rhythm. The 2026 lineup:
- August 5 — Infinity and Beyond, a Journey tribute
- August 12 — Lost West, rock and country
- August 19 — Klay N' The Mud, pop rock
- August 26 — Mainstreet Soul, top-40
Food trucks start serving at 5:30, music at 6. Admission is free, and this year the organizers have opted not to sell alcohol on site. Parking is genuinely tight, so if you can walk or carpool from the east side of the lake, do. The August 12 date has a stronger truck lineup on paper, with Great Greek, D&W Street Eatery, Simply Spanish, and Meltdown Creamery all confirmed.
For a Bloomfield Township household, the practical way to read the summer calendar is not by month but by Wednesday. Lunch on the Township Campus every other week, an evening on the Marshbank concert hill in August, and a burger opening on Woodward to look forward to in early fall.
What the Rest of the Neighborhood Is Building Around
None of the above replaces what the Township already has, and it is worth naming a few of the standbys that shape the everyday. The Frank Lloyd Wright Smith House on Pon Valley Road remains one of the few Usonian houses in the country still open for scheduled tours, and it is quietly one of the most reliable answers to the "what should we do with out-of-town guests" question. Kirk in the Hills, on Long Lake Road, continues to hold public organ recitals through the summer. The Bloomfield Township Public Library at Lone Pine keeps a much fuller adult program calendar than most residents I talk to realize, and their township calendar is the single best way to catch things that do not make it to Instagram.
What is changing is not the anchors. It is the connective tissue between them. A biweekly food truck ritual gives you a low-stakes reason to leave the house on a weekday. A new burger operator on Woodward gives you an easy Friday. A private event venue on Franklin Road, when it opens, gives you a place to host the milestone that used to require a drive. Individually, each is a small update. Taken together, they suggest a Township that is moving from a bedroom-community summer rhythm toward something more programmed.
If you are thinking about how any of this shapes the value of where you already live, or you are considering a move within the Township and want a read on how these corridors are developing, we would be glad to talk. Cindy Kahn and our team have been advising Bloomfield Township families through neighborhood shifts for decades, and the concierge model we run is built for exactly these conversations. Request Your KahnCierge Consultation.