Our weekly bite explores the city's food trucks, one at a time, highlighting our favorite mobile dishes and snacks. The Truck: Liba Falafel The Cuisine: Cal-Mediterranean Specialty Items: Falafel sandwiches and salads; the condiment bar Worth the Wait in Line? At peak lunchtime, it was a total 12 m ... More >>
Luis ChongLIBA Falafel owner Gail Lillian.Set those recorders: San Francisco food truck LIBA Falafel will be featured on the Cooking Channel series Eat St. tonight alongside Portland's Garden State Cart, Seattle's Skillet Street Food, and Houston's Oh My! Pocket Pies. The episode premieres at ... More >>
carlos a./YelpThe Seoul on Wheels truck attracts a lunch crowd on Emeryville's Hollis Street.The head of the task force looking at changes to Emeryville's mobile vending rules says she's confident street-food vendors and restaurant will be able to agree on a set of recommendations it can pres ... More >>
Luis ChongOwner Gail Lillian peers out from the Liba Falafel truck. Lillian is talking with Whole Foods about developing street-inspired retail products.Looks like the Magic Curry Kart line of sauces is only the beginning of Whole Foods' foray into street-food product marketing. Mobile vendor ... More >>
L. Chong/YelpOwner Gail Lillian (pictured) wants a coveted spot near Cal Academy of Sciences.Liba Falafel Truck owner Gail Lillian is meeting with city officials today in a bid to snag a contract for food sales in Golden Gate Park. Lillian submitted an application last fall, after Rec and Par ... More >>
J. BirdsallFully accessorized.Weds., Feb. 10, 2010 Amsterdam's falafel stands proved the spark for Gail Lillian's peripatetic truck, which splits its time between Emeryville and Potrero Flats. Liba's übercrunchy falafel are mostly textural, craggy, brown-crusted bits not much bigger than exp ... More >>
The falafel sandwich: A handheld mezze platter.Today marked the San Francisco debut for Liba, Gail Lillian's taco truck turned falafel wagon, splashed with tendril-y design elements and an electric honeydew-green color scheme. Its location: a strip-like lot skirting an old loading dock at 155 ... More >>
Luis C./YelpLillian peering out of her Liba Falafel Truck: She's on a mission to change minds.It was the Netherlands -- not Israel -- that provided Gail Lillian with her falafel epiphany. "Falafel was an idea I'd been poring over for many years in my head," she told SFoodie. "But after I took ... More >>
