WHAT The Vizzi Truck goes beyond the usual food-truck haute junk food, with flatbread sandwiches, skillfully seasoned grilled chicken and beef and garlicky chickpea sliders. House-made mango salsa or powerful chimichurri tops the fresh, healthy dishes. On the side, there’s pimento-spiced popcorn—an unusual yet inspired touch. , @VizziTruck, vizzitruck.com. Cash only. Region: Citywide Features: Dinner, [...]
September 16, 2012 | Posted in
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The dilemma: you love food truck/street cart fare but your favorite sammie/sopa/sorbet-slinger-on-wheels is always across town when the craving hits. The solution: The LA Street Food Fest “Summer Tasting” Event happening Saturday, July 21st at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. Picnic on the grass or relax in white tents and under umbrella-shaded tables as you sample [...]
With the proviso that truck gatherings change faster than Lady Gaga changes shoes, here are some good ones. 7th + Fig Where: 7th and Figueroa Plaza, Downtown When: Monday–Wednesday 11 a.m.–2 p.m. Altadena Where: N. Lake Ave. (behind Webster’s), Altadena When: Friday evenings Automobile Driving Museum Where: 610 Lairport St., El Segundo When: Friday lunch [...]
July 8, 2011 | Posted in
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The music may be more significant than the lobsters at the annual Port of Los Angeles Lobster Festival, but that’s not to say that the lobsters are bad. It’s just that the music is pretty damn good. This weekend’s lineup includes Saint Motel, Dengue Fever, We Barbarians and former Xers John Doe and Exene Cervenka, [...]
September 17, 2010 | Posted in
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Thanks to our finally-summer weather, the next two Saturday nights will be peak time for the neon-lit pleasures of Chinatown Summer Nights, a food festival and neighborhood open house. Restaurants, food trucks, art galleries and entertainers are all contributing to a street-fair feeling in the blocks between Broadway and Yale Streets from College to Bernard. Here’s [...]
August 16, 2010 | Posted in
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Los Angeles, you may have heard, is in the midst of a love affair with the food truck. The most recent episode in this fling—if it can still be called that—was last Saturday at the Rose Bowl, where a sold-out crowd of 5,000, including yours truly, showed up for the Los Angeles Street Food Festival’s [...]
This one’s set to be a doozy. Why? Two words: crowd control. The Festival‘s previous iteration, like basically every other major street food event since the food truck renaissance began, was a zoo. Huge crowds and long lines, besides being unpleasant in and of themselves, are not conducive to sampling widely from the many culinary [...]
The city of Pasadena has not been real friendly to food trucks, so the mania that’s swept L.A. was slow to hit there. But Kogi figured out that it could stop in Altadena, just over the Pasadena border and in unincorporated L.A. County territory, and soon others followed suit. We invited the Grilled Cheese Truck [...]
July 14, 2010 | Posted in
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Our colleague Pat Saperstein, an EAT: Los Angeles contributor and the proprietor of EatingLA.com, has a good piece on her site about Tom LaBonge’s misguided effort to limit food trucks, and she makes a plea for L.A. eaters to sign the petition to protect mobile vendors. Here’s how her piece starts: I know being a [...]
KCET is beefing up its website by hitting up other L.A. sites for content, and we were only too happy to support the public-television (now public multimedia) cause. Here’s what we shared with kcet.org for its Summer in LA series. Particular thanks to EAT: Los Angeles contributors Pat Saperstein and Bandini for their truck expertise. [...]
June 21, 2010 | Posted in
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