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July 1, 2009
S.F. Street Food Festival to Feature Unlicensed Mission Vendors
Kevin.The.Great/FlickrA bacon-wrapped hot dog cart will go above-ground for a day.San Francisco's Street Food Festival -- sister event to Oakland's Eat Real Festival -- will turn three of the Mission's best-known unlicensed food hawkers legit for a day. As part of the August 22 festival, Crème Brul ... More >>
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August 12, 2009
Traditional Street-Food Vendors Tweeting in Spanish? Get Ready for It
At a lunch at La Cocina last week, we spoke with director Caleb Zigas and a handful of the incubator kitchen's clients about the phenomenon of new-wave Mission street-food vendors, and what they might have in common with more traditional food vendors. Much of the conversation focused on the c ... More >>
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August 24, 2009
Unlicensed Vendor Detained at Saturday's Street Food Festival
Vendor "Luke" (in glasses) surrounded by police officers Saturday.At the San Francisco Street Food Festival Saturday, police shut down and threatened to cite a street food vendor -- an ironic turn of events for a day devoted in part to educating attendees about the difficulties of becoming a ... More >>
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September 1, 2009
Bay Area Street Food Festivals Rack Up Big Numbers
M. BrodyBig crowds showed up for the Eat Real Festival in Oakland.Some 70,000 people showed up for last weekend's Eat Real Festival, according to the event's communications director. Susan Coss said the busiest day was Saturday, which had the longest program of the three-day dual celebration ... More >>
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October 16, 2009
Stiff Competition Shaping Up for Food Vendor Contracts in Dolores Park
Phillie Casablanca/FlickrWith weekday foot traffic and proximity to the 18th Street food scene, Dolores Park is prime ground for vendors.Yesterday's deadline to submit proposals for mobile food vending in San Francisco parks suggested there's stiff competition for the steep swath of green tha ... More >>
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October 23, 2009
Mezcal Meets Day of the Dead at Cantina. Let's Hope You Don't Feel Dead Next Morning
kawitting/FlickrPace yourself -- you don't want to wake up looking like this Tuesday morning.On Monday night, explore Day of the Dead, with a splash of Halloween. La Cocina is devising an evening of Yucatecan food by Chaac Mool's Luis Vazques, and there'll be potent mezcal drinks. The mysteri ... More >>
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November 9, 2009
Steep Yourself in Culture at La Cocina's Pickle-Making Class This Wednesday
stumptownpanda/FlickrDills at the pickle pavilion from last year's Slow Food Nation festival.Want to learn to make your own foodie host or hostess gift, while keeping a steady stash for your own cupboard? The history, science, and health of lacto-fermented foods ranging from sauerkraut to chu ... More >>
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December 22, 2009
Next Month: Sorting Out the Economics of Street Food
Steve Rhodes/FlickrScene from the S.F. Street Food Festival last August.Street food broke hard in 2009. While carts and stands have been around since convenience became a commodity, this year saw cupcakes, curries, and fancy-pants pizzas join tamales and hot dogs on San Francisco streets, and ... More >>
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January 26, 2010
La Cocina Tapped to Operate Food Carts in Dolores Park, Justin Herman Plaza
Phillie Casablanca/FlickrLa Cocina would be able to operate one cart on weekdays, two on weekends.La Cocina has gotten the initial nod for a contract to do pushcart food sales in both Dolores Park and Justin Herman Plaza, said director Caleb Zigas. Pending final approval by the seven-member R ... More >>
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April 9, 2010
Expanded SF Street Food Festival Sets August Date
barryzigas/FlickrThis year's outdoor food fest will cover much more ground.La Cocina has officially announced Sat., Aug. 21 as the date for the second SF Street Food Festival. The event will be exponentially bigger than last year, with close to 40 vendors (including those who will roam the cr ... More >>
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May 11, 2010
Illegal Mission Hot Dog Vendors Uniting To Go Legit
You can stop smelling your computer screen now...In a city of organized workers, the illegal hot dog vendors on Mission Street are some of labor's last lone rangers. And vulnerable ones. They have no permits and no rights. They must be on constant alert for the cops, who write them tickets and ev ... More >>
Dining
May 19, 2010
Street vendors pushing their carts toward legitimacy
You can stop smelling your computer screen now...In a city of organized workers, the illegal hot dog vendors on Mission Street are some of labor's last lone rangers. And vulnerable ones. They have no permits and no rights. They must be on constant alert for the cops, who write them tickets and ev ... More >>
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May 19, 2010
La Cocina Firms Up Park Cart Plans, Invites Microvendors to Apply
Landscape with hipsters, dogs, and soon, legal street food.In January, SFoodie reported that the Rec and Park Commission had awarded La Cocina, the communal kitchen and small-business incubator, spots for food carts at Dolores Park and Justin Herman Plaza. Even though the final lease is awaiting ... More >>
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May 25, 2010
La Cocina Names Food Vendors for Dolores Park
renroublard/FlickrVeronica Salazar's El Huarache Loco (pictured at last year's SF Street Food Festival) will sell from a trailer seven days a week.La Cocina inked its final contract for park food selling with Rec and Park today. The Mission nonprofit will host two vendor venues in Dolores Par ... More >>
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June 2, 2010
SF Weekly Letters
renroublard/FlickrVeronica Salazar's El Huarache Loco (pictured at last year's SF Street Food Festival) will sell from a trailer seven days a week.La Cocina inked its final contract for park food selling with Rec and Park today. The Mission nonprofit will host two vendor venues in Dolores Par ... More >>
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June 3, 2010
City Hands Graffiti-Busters Fat Checks
Who you gonna call? Don't pull out your spray paint can in front of these dudes. The Department of Public Works held out a big carrot today for San Franciscans to report graffiti vandal: The agency handed $250 checks at a Mission District press conference to two men whose quick action led to the ... More >>
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June 9, 2010
It'll Be Another Month before Dolores Park Sees La Cocina's Food Carts
Jaymi Heimbuch/FlickrHow long, O Lord, before these good people can get a huarache?Why, it was just two weeks ago when we reported on La Cocina's Caleb Zigas predicting he was three or four weeks away from rolling out food carts in Dolores Park. Today, it looks as if that prediction was about ... More >>
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July 21, 2010
Next Month's SF Street Food Festival Is Going to Be Bigger Than Last Year's. Did We Say Bigger?
John Birdsall/2009What organizers are trying to avoid at next month's pavement-cuisine fest: a clusterf*%k.A month before the SF Street Food Festival turns a seven-block swath of the Mission into a grazing mall, organizer Caleb Zigas sounds like he's on a sales pitch. The festival debuted in ... More >>
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July 23, 2010
CartSpotting Winners Announced for SF Street Food Festival
Albert B./YelpThe Lumpia Cart guys got the nod.La Cocina just announced the winners of CartSpotting, its contest to let eaters choose which additional street-food vendors they'd like to see at the SF Street Food Festival on August 21. The results, chosen from a slate of 50: The Whole Tortilla ... More >>
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August 20, 2010
More Than Anything, S.F.'s Street Food Festival Celebrates Entrepreneurship
John Birdsall/2009Last year's SF Street Food Festival: Thrilling. And not.Yes, last year SF Street Food Festival was equal parts thrilling and #Fail: More expectant humanity thronged a single block of Folsom, even, than rushes the Sunday beer bust at the Eagle, or the Saturday afternoon check ... More >>
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August 23, 2010
What's the State of Local Pavement Cuisine? Sound Bites from the SF Street Food Festival
What's it like to start a food business in San Francisco when you don't have a pack of investors eager to write checks? That's the question hanging over the crowds at Saturday's 2010 SF Street Food Festival in the Mission. Between bites, video producer Jason Jurgens and I buttonholed chefs, the as ... More >>
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August 30, 2010
An Estimated 30,000 Showed Up at Last Week's SF Street Food Festival
Chris MacArthur/SF WeeklyMore than twice as many people showed up at this year's SF Street Food Festival compared to 2009's inaugural event.In Oakland, a day after Eat Real wrapped, cleanup crews are no doubt still steam-washing spilled Gordon Biersch and sisig taco residue from the pavement ... More >>
Dining
September 8, 2010
Fresh Eats: The State of S.F.’s Street Food
Chris MacArthur/SF WeeklyMore than twice as many people showed up at this year's SF Street Food Festival compared to 2009's inaugural event.In Oakland, a day after Eat Real wrapped, cleanup crews are no doubt still steam-washing spilled Gordon Biersch and sisig taco residue from the pavement ... More >>
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September 28, 2010
Meeting Gives Foes of Dolores Park Vendor Plan a Chance to Vent
Brianna H./YelpOpponents say food vendors in Dolores Park could generate more trash, more noise, more public peeing.For opponents, last night's community meeting on Rec and Park's plans for food vendors in Dolores Park was an exercise in futility. Dolores Park Works organized the meeting earl ... More >>
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October 20, 2010
Rec and Park Comments On Blue Bottle's Decision to Pull Out of Dolores Park
renroublard/FlickrLa Cocina is going through with plans to let El Huarache Loco's Veronica Salazar, center, operate a cart in Dolores Park.More on the aftermath of Blue Bottle's decision to scrap its plans to sell in Dolores Park. Elton Pon, spokesman for the city's Recreation and Park Depart ... More >>
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November 4, 2010
City's New Street Food Plans Unappealing for Mission's Illegal Hot Dog Vendors
Still illegal. And delicious. Street cart vendors have long complained that San Francisco's expensive and Byzantine permitting process snuffs a potential rockin' street food culture in the city. Yet change is on the way. At Supervisor Bevan Dufty's behest, the Planning Department is considering s ... More >>
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November 4, 2010
Illegal Mission Vendors 'Skeptical' of Proposed Changes to Street-Food Rules
Danster L./YelpEven if the city makes it easier for street-food vendors, this guy's unlikely to be moved.As we reported earlier today, there's a good chance San Francisco's street food laws will soon be amended to make it easier for vendors to become licensed, and increase the scope of where ... More >>
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January 12, 2011
Sustainable Artisans to Shine at Good Food Awards
seedlingprojects/FlickrEntry in the poster contest for Seedling Projects' Good Food Month.In August last year, Seedling Projects (it helped organize Slow Food Nation in 2008 and the S.F. Street Food Festival in 2010) announced an awards contest to recognize the top responsible artisan produce ... More >>
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January 19, 2011
Bacon-wrapped hot dog vendors lose customers when they go legit
seedlingprojects/FlickrEntry in the poster contest for Seedling Projects' Good Food Month.In August last year, Seedling Projects (it helped organize Slow Food Nation in 2008 and the S.F. Street Food Festival in 2010) announced an awards contest to recognize the top responsible artisan produce ... More >>
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January 27, 2011
Q&A with Evan Bloom and Leo Beckerman of Wise Sons Jewish Deli
Megan Rose MartinWise guys: Evan Bloom, left, and Leo Beckerman.Wise Sons, the Jewish deli pop-up from Evan Bloom and Leo Beckerman, debuted last Saturday at Jackie's Vinoteca, part of Off the Grid: McCoppin Hub. Though they're both from Southern California, Bloom and Beckerman met as undergr ... More >>
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April 8, 2011
Dolores Park NIMBY Vows to Strike Again, This Time Against Chaac Mool
The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Alexx C./YelpQuality of life destroyer: Chaac Mool's Luis Vazquez.The Examiner's Ken Garcia catches word that La Cocina incubator business Chaac Mool will take over the nonprofit Dolores Park vendi ... More >>
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June 28, 2011
2011 SF Street Food Festival Lineup Firms Up
Chris MacArthurThe 2010 Street Food Festival. Even though the 2011 SF Street Food Festival isn't taking place until Saturday, August 20, organizer Caleb Zigas says the lineup of vendors is "98 percent firm." This year, as SFoodie reported in April, the festival is significantly bigger -- there's ... More >>
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July 19, 2011
Going Legit, Part 5: Selling Your Food Through Grocery Stores
Marge BakeryMegan Gordon.Part five of a series in which SFoodie asks the question: With the Underground Market now shut down, what would it take for San Francisco's aspiring food microventures to go legit? The shelves at grocery stores like Rainbow, Bi-Rite, and Canyon Market are packed with loc ... More >>
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August 16, 2011
Jonathan Gold, Francis Lam, Robb Walsh Speak at This Year's Street Food Conference
SFoodie has been previewing this Saturday's Street Food Festival, but public gluttony is only the splashy half of the event. On Sunday, Aug. 21, and Monday, Aug. 22, La Cocina has also organized a National Street Food Conference, which is bringing many names from the local food scene, as well as ... More >>