(PUEBLO, Colo.) — The 2025 winner of the Governor’s Plate Food Truck Competition has been crowned at the Colorado State Fair.
Chef Brother Luck, who was filling in as judge for Governor Jared Polis, named Stoke Pizza the Governor’s Plate champion. Stoke Pizza won the coveted title in 2023, and followed it up with a People’s Choice award in 2024. Now, the title returns to Stoke Pizza in 2025.
Stoke Pizza’s winning dish was a wood-fired pie made with ingredients from local Colorado farmers, including local meat, green chile, and Colorado honey.
The competition included four food trucks from Pueblo and one from Arvada. The rules: each dish had to be created by local chefs using Colorado Proud ingredients. This year, the dishes were required to include either honey produced in Colorado or sweet corn from the Centennial State.
Brother Luck, a celebrity chef who has appeared on Top Chef and who owns three Colorado Springs restaurants, chose Stoke Pizza’s offering as his favorite after sampling dishes ranging from enchiladas to corn dip to ice cream at each of the five food trucks.
The People’s Choice Award, voted on by the attendees of the event, went to Arvada’s MC2 Ice Cream Truck, which served a honey-cheesecake ice cream swirled with freeze-dried corn streusel, served in a honey cornbread cone and finished with shattered pine nut brittle and bing cherry pearls.
“Everyone had their own personality and stayed true to who they were as a food truck,” Chef Luck said. “I think it’s so important when you’re cooking a dish to be authentic to who you are.”
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