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The Great Food Truck Race: Season 4

7 episodes Premiered Aug 18, 2013 Updated Sep 30, 2026
Previously on The Great Food Truck Race

Season 4 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 3.
  • ⚡ 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 4 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 4: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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S4·E1 Mytharc

I Left My Food Cart in San Francisco

Aug 18, 2013 · 60 min

Season 4 begins in Beverly Hills, where the eight competing teams are instructed to prepare a signature dish that must be sold for at least $20. Later, they are given a second chal

S4·E2 Core

A Strange Brew in Portland

Aug 25, 2013 · 60 min

The seven remaining teams are unable to restock their supplies when they arrive in Portland, Ore.; and later, they are told geoduck must be their main ingredient in all menu items.

S4·E3 Core

Pocatello Is All About Potatoes, You Dig?

Sep 1, 2013 · 60 min

The six remaining teams travel to the mountains of Pocatello, Idaho, where they are told to remove all starches from their menus. Their next challenge finds them digging up spuds a

S4·E4 Core

About Face in South Dakota

Sep 8, 2013 · 60 min

The five remaining teams meet Tyler at Mount Rushmore, where they are given money to shop for supplies in Rapid City, S.D., but without use of their cars. The next day, a side of b

S4·E5 Core

Double Trouble in the Twin Cities

Sep 15, 2013 · 60 min

The four remaining teams enter the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Challenges include serving food on a stick and cooking with Spam.

S4·E6 Mytharc

A Food Truck Kind of Town, Chicago Is

Sep 22, 2013 · 60 min

Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel judges a pizza challenge. Later, the teams must incorporate hot dogs in all of their menu items.

S4·E7 Mytharc

Capital Gains

Sep 29, 2013 · 60 min

In the fourth-season finale, the last leg of the race sends the remaining teams all over the East Coast, beginning with a stop in Annapolis, Md., followed by a crab challenge—and a

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