I am sorry if the truth sounds contrived and ingenuine to you. I, like Juaquin and Robert, do live in Boyle Heights and we are not restaurant owners. The majority of people who are vehemently against illegal vending are born and raised in BH. If you read my post, I stated it was a psuedo hipster experience for you. I know who eats the food at Breed. I can walk there from my home. I never said it was a tourist experience and my arguments are far from impotent.

Thanks for the invite to Art Walk, I go just about every month. Perhaps we should meet and have a conversation.

No I am not a dietary fascists. I love food. But you sir are being at best willfully naive to ignore the health challenges of the Latinio community. Yes this is America. With 47 million uninsured, many living in BH. Additionally, there is the very real existence of extortion from the local gangs. Dangerous stuff indeed. Please take the illegal vendors back to North Hollywood. It would be great if they joined you.

Many of the illegal vendors don’t to want to join a food market because they will be regulated. They will have to compy with code and pay taxes. They don’t want regulation and they don’t want to pay the taxes the legitimate food businesses do. Just like big corporations only on a smaller scale.

So Streetgourmetla, people with full brains do know us as active citizens who address crime, illegal vending, trash, blight, overdevelopment and any number of issues that face this community.

You don’t live here, you don’t know us, so don’t judge.

BHcitizen

The parking lot of the Bank of America is not a residential concern. I could understand if it were on your doorstep, but no one fusses over parking lots in any part of town. Parking lot blight?

Everyone in Los Angeles mixes with the locals, whether it’s Boyle Heights residents going to the beach, or Santa Monica residents going to Hollywood Bl. If you feel used, I’d invite you to go to the ArtWalk in downtown LA, so that you can exact some revenge and disturb the residents of Downtown LA. Many hipsters!

Problems with fried quesadillas? Get a quesadilla a la plancha con flor de calabaza. Eating at nearby King Taco,Ciro’s,El Tepeyac, or La Parrilla will reduce diabetes? Are you that desparate to make your case? And, this is America, we can eat a damn fried quesadilla if we want.What are you? A dietary fascist?

People go to Breed St. because of the quality and delicious food, pure and simple. I wouldn’t be caught dead having those lame King Taco’s tacos. These places aren’t slow because of Breed St. vendors, they’re slow because they are poor quality and uninteresting. Spreading stories about people getting sick is silly, people get sick every day all over the city. I’ve never been sick in over two years of dining at Breed St, nor do I know anyone. Vendors use gloves and have separate money handlers. But, gloves aren’t used in regualr restaurants too.

The parking lot looks like a normal parking lot before and after the vendors.The pollution you should be concerned about is the oil leaks from cars that park there during the day going to the bank.We all have to deal with that too.

Many vendors are locals and walk from their houses to sell something they made at home , and I challenge anyone to go see for themselves.You speak of the colorful locals then hipsters, which is it? People in the neighborhood walk down from their nearby houses to eat. IT IS A LOCAL SCENE! Any other notion of it being full of food tourists is impotent.

Street vendors are in my neighborhood, and in many neighborhoods throughout the city, only unpopular with the unimaginative restaurants that are in competition. Cook good food, and let a democratic food eating public decide what is delicious, and what isn’t.

This “outrage” from you BHcitizen(hilarious and absurd), smartmen, Juaquin, and Robert is so contrived and ingenuine. You don’t sound like concerned citizens to anyone with half a brain, don’t kid yourselves.

Rick is the only one that doesn’t seem to have an agenda, and the idea of a Farmer’s Market is a great plan.It would be a good move. If your restaurant is any good, you’ve nothing to fear.

I hope the Breed St. vendors could find a place to do their business without the fear of harrassment, so that the locals can continue to enjoy this incredible food, the local vendors and working families with culinary roots that hail from D.F, Puebla, Michoacan, Jalisco, Vera Cruz, and more can make their living, and that something that gives Boyle Hts. notoriety and positive attention can continue. Street and food fairs are welcome all over the city. I would welcome the vendors to my local B of A parking lot here in North Hollywood. I go to street vendors here, but they’re not as good.

I’m a food blogger who loves the cooking of many of the street vendors, and the amazing cuisine of Mexico. Who are you BHcitizen?Come clean.I imagine some of you local “business” owners don’t even live in Boyle Heights, either.

Glad to see they were back on Saturday. Long live Breed St.