FREE-First Friday South End Gallery Crawl and Food Truck Friday

Good Eats and Meets wants to let you know about one of the most fun and FREE events in Charlotte. Welcome to the FREE-First Friday South End Gallery Crawl and Food Truck Friday. ..Please read the bottom for Meetup details. Charlotte Magazine recently named the South End Gallery Crawl as the “Best Artsy Place to Take a Date” (http://www.charlottemagazine.com/Charlotte-Magazine/May-2013/The-2013-BOB-AWARDS/Arts-Culture/)and Food Truck Friday as “Best Regular Foodie Event”. Every month on the 1st Friday, the FREE-South End Gallery Crawl and Food Truck Friday have a great lineup of gallery exhibitions and food trucks. The Gallery Crawl is a casual way for you to explore the galleries and shops in the South End neighborhood. Most of the wonderful galleries will be open with special exhibitions and the popular foodie event, Food Truck Friday, will be in the heart of it all! Specifics for each gallery can be found on the Southend Website http://www.cltsouthend.com/play/gallery-crawl/ but here are a few things to help you enjoy your First Friday Gallery Crawl Experience. 1. Parking - On popular nights with Gallery Crawl and Food Truck Friday, parking can fill up quickly so it is highly recommended that if you can take the light rail that you please do! Both the I-485, Tyvola and Scaleybark Light Rail Stations have huge parking lots and if you ride the light rail to the East/West Blvd Station you will then have a 2 minute walk from the Sycamore. The majority of the galleries are located at the Bland Street Station. Once you are in South End, you can walk to just about everything so you won’t need your car. If you are driving, there is adequate on-street parking and several surface lots in and around the Hawkins St area. Please be certain to park only in areas signed to appropriately for parking. The surface lot behind Price’s Chicken Coop usually charges $5 to park if you want to be really close. There is also a lot on the corner of S Tryon and Park Ave you can park but it…