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The Great Food Truck Race: Season 3

7 episodes Premiered Aug 19, 2012 Updated Sep 30, 2026
Previously on The Great Food Truck Race

Season 3 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of The Great Food Truck Race Season 2.
  • ⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • ⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • ⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
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Season 3 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 3: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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S3·E1 Mytharc

3,559 Miles to a Dream

Aug 19, 2012 · 60 min

Eight teams of aspiring food-truck owners arrive in Los Angeles and begin competing for their own food truck and $50,000 of seed money to start their business in the Season 3 opene

S3·E2 Core

Attitude at High Altitude

Aug 26, 2012 · 60 min

The seven remaining trucks arrive in Flagstaff, Ariz., and the teams are tasked with creating a dish featuring prickly-pear cactus, a local delicacy. Chef Beau MacMillan is a guest

S3·E3 Core

Even Food Trucks Are Bigger in Texas

Sep 2, 2012 · 60 min

Ballpark-inspired fare is made when the teams visit the Amarillo National Bank Sox Stadium, home of the Amarillo Sox, a minor-league baseball team.

S3·E4 Core

Baby Got Razorback

Sep 9, 2012 · 60 min

The five remaining teams head to the college town of Fayetteville, Ark., and are tasked with using Pop-Tarts to create breakfast dishes for hungry college students. Acclaimed teen

S3·E5 Core

Music City Madness

Sep 16, 2012 · 60 min

The four remaining teams arrive in Nashville and prepare a picnic for the country-music duo Joey + Rory. Later, two members of each team must sit out of a challenge while their oth

S3·E6 Mytharc

Mistake by the Lake?

Sep 23, 2012 · 60 min

The teams create gourmet dishes using tomatoes. Outback Steakhouse cofounder Tim Gannon serves as a guest judge. Later, the food trucks are taken in to be serviced, and the teams m

S3·E7 Mytharc

Where in the World is Lubec?

Sep 30, 2012 · 60 min

The final two teams race to Boston in the Season 3 finale. Once they arrive, they are tasked with adding an authentic New England lobster dish to their menu. Two lobstermen rate th

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