Veronica Salazar

Cedar Hill and Super Duper Open This Week, So Long Spot Bagel, and La Cocina Success Stories

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. BBQ and burgers in the Marina: Urban Daddy rounds up the news of a brisket and ribs place, Cedar Hill, soft opening this Thursday. The Texas-styled joint even shipped its smoker in from the Lone Star stat ... More >>

Tequila and Tamales by the Bay: Too Good to Pound

Maria Antonieta SolorzanoThe Whole Tortilla picked up the People's Choice Award.​Around 300 people breezed about the sunny atrium at San Francisco Design Center Sunday, munching tamales and sipping from baby shot glasses of tequila. It was the fifth year of Benchmark Institute's fundraiser Tequila ... More >>

Main Library Wheels In Food Carts

misocrazy/Flickr​Food Cart Smarts Where: San Francisco Public Library, Latino/Hispanic Meeting Room A and B, 100 Larkin (at Hyde), 557-4400 When: Thurs., Feb. 10, 5:30-7 p.m. Cost: Free The rundown: If you've never used the Internet or eaten a snack, maybe you haven't heard of the mobile ... More >>

El Huarache Loco to Start Construction on Marin Restaurant

renroublard/FlickrVeronica Salazar hopes to open her Larkspur Landing restaurant by spring or summer.​Veronica Salazar is projecting a spring or summer opening for the brick-and-mortar version of El Huarache Loco, her thriving street-food business that's been a fixture at the Alemany market. C ... More >>

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 >>

Nominees for Woman Entrepreneur Award Include Omnivore, Huarache Loco, Ritual

Omnivore Books' Celia Sack.​Celia Sack (Omnivore Books), Krystin Rubin and Karen Heisler (Mission Pie), Veronica Salazar (El Huarache Loco), Eileen Hassi (Ritual Roasters), Lisa Rogovin (In the Kitchen With Lisa), Kaytea Petro (Neighborhood Fruit), Kara Lind (Kara's Cupcakes), Erin Archuleta ( ... More >>

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 >>

Street-Food Vendor El Huarache Loco Offering Turkey with Mole for Thanksgiving

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 Alem ... More >>

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 >>

Pavement Cuisine: BLT Huarache from El Huarache Loco

J. Birdsall 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, a ... More >>

Alemany Food Vendors Could Extend Their City Contracts Up to Three Years

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 ci ... More >>

State of the Cart Sidebar: El Huarache Loco

State of the Cart

Join us as we map the street food scene and find out why there aren't more vendors in this most food-involved and temperate of cities.

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