Nothing is hotter these days than street food, but some of the newest sidewalk chefs are rolling out their carts without the blessings of local authorities. Even if you track them down via Twitter, you may show up to find they've been busted before you get there. If you're hungry for the latest, hottest, tastiest, most imaginative, and cheapest street food around -- that's guaranteed to be there when you are! -- the Eat Real Festival just might be your meat. From Friday, August 28, through S
ladyJake/FlickrEl Huarache Loco must file for a contract from the city's Real Estate Division.Food vendors at the Alemany farmers' market who avoided the axe last week have an opportunity to operate under city contract for as long as three years.
Yesterday, Chron's Chuck Nevius reported that the city's Real Estate Division was allowing the vendors to stay, but only for a year, followed by an uncertain future. But John Updike, the Division's assistant director, told SFoodie that food sellers wil
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A diner-lonchera mashup.
Over the weekend, D.F.-style street-food vendor El Huarache Loco rolled out a BLT huarache ($7) at the Alemany market: A tongue-shaped base of cooked masa dough, topped with mashy salsa, bacon, heirloom tomatoes, avocado, iceberg, queso cotija, and crema. Okay, call it a BLAT.
Owner Veronica Salazar served up a prototype last Thursday at Mission Street Food. The weekend version was a diner-meets-lonchera mashup of salty, smoky bacon, sw
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 challenges all home-based food businesses face when they try to score the proper permits and business licenses to go legit, a process Zigas calls moving from the "informal" to the "formal" economy.
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J. BirdsallLines stretched across Folsom and onto the sidewalk.Crowds eager for street food thronged Folsom between 25th and 26th streets in the Mission Saturday for the first-ever San Francisco Street Food Festival. Organized by small-business incubator La Cocina, the fest brought together nonprofits, big-name restaurants, food vendors in La Cocina's mentorship program, and even a few unlicensed street-food vendors operating legally for the day. The event was a fundraiser for La Cocina, and
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Rockin' eats at Outside Lands: Maverick's pulled pork sandwich.SFoodie sister blog All Shook Down trailed the three-day musical movements of the Outside Lands Festival this weekend, and by the sounds of it, our sonic reporters didn't make too much time for eating. That's no problem, because we ate enough for all of 'em combined.Our treks across the Polo Fields and Speedway Meadow were not for the bands, but to really take in and appreciate the extensive food selections:
Really? The same old turkey stuffing you always bust out, with frankly mixed results? Consider going multiculti this year, with turkey and mole from street-food vendor El Huarache Loco. Huarache owner Veronica Salazar told SFoodie she'll start taking orders for holiday birds this weekend at the Alemany farmers' market. You can get your turkey raw or roasted, with organic, chocolate-spiked mole on the side.
Lady Jake/FlickrPlease -- not the gummy cornbread stuffing again.The sauce is a f
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