Roger Feely

Soul Cocina Returns to La Victoria for One Night

Until moving to Chicago last year, chef Roger Feely of Soul Cocina enlivened San Francisco palates with his world-wise cooking and helped to unite a community of small-scale food carts, eaters, and music appreciators in the Mission and beyond. Extensive international travels as well as time served i ... More >>

The Inspired Vegan Cookbook Release Party with Eats by Soul Cocina

What: Cookbook launch party for Bryant Terry Where: The Museum of the African Diaspora When: Tues., January 24, 7:30-9 p.m. Cost: $30 with book, $15 without The rundown: Bryant Terry, author of the hit cookbook, Vegan Soul Food, is back again with a second, The Inspired Vegan. The book is a co ... More >>

Let's Eat: Soul Cocina's in Town For One Night Only

​What: One Night Only Soul Cocina Feast Where: La Victoria, 2937 24th St. at Florida, 642-7120. When: Thursday, Oct. 6; 7 to 9:15 p.m. Cost: $46 meat, $42 vegan The rundown: Soul Cocina is back from Chicago for a one night only engagement at La Victoria. Roger Feely, one of the fathers of the ... More >>

Underground Market Gets National Exposure, a Seasonal Produce Chart for the Detail-Obsessed

​Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. 1. The New York Times Discovers the Underground. Times Bay Area correspondent Patricia Leigh Brown visits the Underground Market, which she calls a "crave." (Mmm ... not buying it. ... More >>

We Hate Saying Goodbye, Except When We Do It with Chicken and Waffles

Carina OstYesterday at La Victoria: Chicken by Soul Cocina, waffle by Sour Flour, craving by Mildred Pierce.​Let's talk good combinations: chicken waffles, Soul Cocina Sour Flour, Kate Winslet nude scenes every movie. If you're anything like us, you' spent the last month religiously ... More >>

Devil Burgers, Farewell to Feely, and Mutually Supportive Deliciousness

soupstance/FlickrVegetarians can apparently thank St. Francis back for its veggie burger.​ Five highlights from the blogs and beyond: 1. This week, SFoodie hit the two-thirds mark on our countdown of our 92 favorite dishes (well, this year), covering ravioli in Russian Hill, SOMA breakfast pastr ... More >>

Martha Stewart Thinks Beef Is Gross, Silk Thinks You Should Lay Off the Cow Teet

​SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. • Vegansaurus' Megan Rascal went to the live taping of Martha Stewart's vegan show. She sat front row like the baller she is, and watched Twitter cofounder, Biz Stone, and rich-bitch vegan (mean this in best way ... More >>

What to Do This Weekend, April 1-3

Scott Beale/Laughing SquidWhattya have to do to get a drink in this place? See Fri., April 1.​Craving more? Scroll through additional listings here. Fri., April 1 BarBot 2011 pariSoma, 69 11th St. (at Natoma), 9 p.m.-2 a.m. (also Saturday, same times) As a boozy prelude to the eighth annual R ... More >>

Roger Feely's Last Supper

djrajah/FlickrSee ya, Roger.​Indian Feast: Dhaba Walla Pop-Up Where: "Somewhere different and unique" according to the event listing; exact location to be revealed via Twitter or e-mail When: Sat., April 2, 6-11(ish) p.m. Cost: $37 at the door, $33 in advance The rundown: Roger Feely's pac ... More >>

Will He Stay or Will He Go? Soul Cocina's Roger Feely May Be Outta Here Soon

sjsharktank/FlickrSoul Cocina's Roger Feely (in cap) at Off the Grid.​Ask anyone who follows San Francisco's street-food scene which vendor hustles hardest, and chances are they'll name Soul Cocina's Roger Feely. The man is everywhere. Festivals, secret after-hour street-food parties, weekly ... More >>

Soul Cocina's Spanish Suppers at La Victoria

Kimberly SandieWholesome Bakery's Mandy Harper with La Victoria's Jaime Maldonado (center) and Soul Cocina's Roger Feely.​Soul Cocina chef Roger Feely brings his Soul Supper pop-up to La Victoria tonight and tomorrow night. This week's menu skews Spanish, or at least the language is bilingual ... More >>

Outside India: Recurring Street-Food Party Returns This Weekend

djrajah/FlickrSoul Cocina's Roger Feely​The ninth installment of the Outside In street-food and music parties has been dubbed Outside India: not only Indian-inspired cooking, but beats from DJs Amar, Jimmy Love, and Suresh from popular monthly club Non-Stop Bhangra. Body movements courtesy of ... More >>

Last Chance Thanksgiving Gifts at Underground (Mini) Market

Tamara PalmerRoger Feely of Soul Cocina plans to be there with Thanksgiving sides and desserts.​Iso Rabins' forageSF is hosting a smaller version of its popular Underground Market tomorrow in the Mission. Wednesday's edition will focus on pre-packaged last-minute gift ideas like jams and cooki ... More >>

Liza Shaw's Thanksgiving Essential: Pumpkin Cheesecake

SFoodie's series asking some of our favorite San Francisco food people about the dish they just can't celebrate Thanksgiving without. Every year, A16 closes for Thanksgiving Day, and chef Liza Shaw is as thankful about that as anyone. "If you stay open for Thanksgiving," she says, "you're expec ... More >>

Russ Moore's Thanksgiving Essential: Sticky Rice and Chinese Sausage Stuffing

SFoodie's series asking some of our favorite San Francisco food people about the dish they just can't celebrate Thanksgiving without. Russ Moore is the Bay Area's chef's chef. At Camino, the Oakland restaurant, he operates with his wife, Allison Hopelain, the Chez Panisse veteran reduces cooking ... More >>

Marcia Gagliardi's Thanksgiving Essential: Giblet Gravy

SFoodie's series asking some of our favorite San Francisco food people about the dish they just can't celebrate Thanksgiving without. Tablehopper editor Marcia Gagliardi spends her days and nights roaming the city, chatting up restaurateurs and tasting all there is to be tasted. But when it comes ... More >>

Irvin Lin's Thanksgiving Essential: Green Bean Casserole

SFoodie's series asking some of our favorite San Francisco food people about the dish they just can't celebrate Thanksgiving without. Since I grew up Asian in St. Louis, my Thanksgivings always skewed a little from the mainstream. I never realized that sticky glutinous rice wasn't part of everyon ... More >>

Roger Feely's Thanksgiving Essential: Relleno Negro

SFoodie's series asking some of our favorite San Francisco food people about the dish they just can't celebrate Thanksgiving without.Knowing that Roger Feely, aka Soul Cocina, has traveled and worked all over, SFoodie suspected that, when we interviewed him about his essential Thanksgiving dish, i ... More >>

James Freeman's Thanksgiving Essential: Wonky Turkey Roasting, Lots of Coffee

SFoodie's series asking some of our favorite San Francisco food people about the dish they just can't celebrate Thanksgiving without. Perhaps the wonkiest of S.F. coffee geeks, Blue Bottle's James Freeman does Thanksgiving with the aid of gadgets, key elements sourced from Ferry Plaza, and no lac ... More >>

Tonight: Outside In 8 Goes All Day of the Dead at La Victoria

Outside In​For some in this city, the past four days have been a semi-sleepless blur of fake beards, bong hits, Halloween cupcakes, and crowds. Keep the sweaty magic alive tonight at La Victoria at Outside In 8, framed this time with Day of the Dead sugar skulls and a soundtrack kicked in co ... More >>

Saturday: Bake Sale and Street Food Party Benefits Nick Harper's Recovery

Kimberly SandieWholesome Bakery's Mandy Harper, La Victoria's Jaime Maldonado, and Soul Cocina's Roger Feely.​Wholesome Bakery proprietor Mandy Harper has organized a bakesale and street food party this Saturday to raise money to help her brother Nick defray medical costs in his fight against ... More >>

The S'Mores Taco, a Flash of Brilliance at Last Night's Outside In 7

Tamara Palmer​At last night's Outside In 7 street food event in the Mission, SF Delicious offered one of the more intriguing snack concepts of the night, the s'mores taco: soft tortilla, a generous lashing of Nutella, graham crumbles, and what was described as "artisan" marshmallows that came ... More >>

Outside In 6: A Secret, After-Hours Street-Food Party

Tamara Palmer​Soul Cocina's Roger Feely loves to shake up street food conventions with his Outside In parties. For the sixth installment, he's messing with time. Sure, you can get bacon-wrapped hot dogs and crêpes late at night, but Outside In 6 will add to that some Latin DJs, live music, so ... More >>

Share Your Memories of La Victoria and You Could Win Something

Toro E./YelpNot bad for 60.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. La Victoria, 24th Street's immovable presence, is 60 years old. Instead of things like Depends and mall walkers (customary gifts for any sexagenarian) owner Jaime Maldonado wants your reminiscences ― an essay in 300 words or le ... More >>

Learning Indian with Soul Cocina's Roger Feely

Jun BelenRoger Feely.​What's the coolest way in the city to learn how to make saag paneer? Through Soul Cocina's Roger Feely cooking classes at Jharna's Kitchen, without a doubt. Jun Belen​Last weekend we donned our aprons, rolled up our sleeves, and, for $50, joined an intimate clas ... More >>

Soul Cocina's Roger Feely Leads Indian Cooking Class at Jharna's Kitchen

Tamara PalmerSoul Cocina's sabudana vada, pictured at last week's Street Fixe pop-up.​One of the most exotic places on Roger Feely's resume includes a year spent as a chef/instructor and consultant in Goa, India. He'll draw from that experience, as well as his street feats here as Soul Cocina, ... More >>

The Great Potato Sack Race, a Benefit for the Beacon Culinary Project

Tamara PalmerPotatoes from Soul Cocina.​Street-food vendors will focus on potatoes this weekend in a fundraiser for the after-school Beacon Culinary Project in the Western Addition, where Roger Feely (Soul Cocina) and Brian Kimball (Magic Curry Kart) are instructors. For the First Annual Great ... More >>

Street vendors pushing their carts toward legitimacy

Soul Cocina's Roger Feely Talks About Why He Works Legit

Kimberly Sandie​Roger Feely, aka Soul Cocina, is one of the senior street cart vendors I interviewed for today's "Eat" column. Feely has cooked professionally for more than a decade, so he's far more familiar with the world of communal kitchens and restaurant inspections than many of people he wor ... More >>

La Victoria Bakery Begins Hosting Street-Cart Cooks, Throws a Party to Celebrate

​La Victoria Bakery has been in business on 24th Street since 1951, back when the Mission was an Italian-Irish Neighborhood. The Maldonado family, who make some of San Francisco's best pan dulce, have seen their business expand into a restaurant, contract back into a bakery, and now expand again i ... More >>

But Wait, There's More News Regarding La Victoria and Soul Cocina

djrajah/Flickr​When Roger Feely was telling SFoodie about the cart-astic party Mission bakery La Victoria is hosting this Saturday, he dropped another piece of news: He's not just renting out space in the bakery's expansive production kitchens. Feely's Soul Cocina, a stalwart on the food-cart scen ... More >>

Soul Cocina's Roger Feely Ventures to India (via the Bay Area) for 'Localize'

T. PalmerChef Feely's workshop.​Roger Feely, a culinary instructor, DJ, and street-food purveyor -- all under the Soul Cocina banner -- will be the guest chef for a dinner event called Localize, with ingredients sourced from the Bay Area and ideas inspired by Feely's cooking and spice studies in I ... More >>

Trick or Street: Family-Friendly Halloween Street-Food Party Tomorrow at Little Skillet

djrajah/FlickrSoul Cocina's Roger Feely: He'll totally be there.​Ready to go all massive (food-wise) for Halloween? Hit up 360 Ritch (at Townsend) from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. tomorrow for food, piñatas, and other tasty treats. It's being billed as a family-friendly event -- Halloween costumes are ... More >>

Hot Chaat: Soul Cocina Brings India to Mission Street Food

T. PalmerSoul Cocina's panuchos: Neither Indian nor on the MSF menu, but also hot.​Roger Feely, the culinary instructor/street food purveyor behind Soul Cocina, will once again collaborate with Mission Street Food this Thursday, September 10 at Lung Shan (2234 Mission at 18th St.). Feely told SFoo ... More >>

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