Entries tagged with 'Street Food Profiles'
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Note: It's time for another edition of Street Food Profiles. This week we scoot to Santa Barbara where a former school bus becomes a delicious burger-mobile. "CB&J," aka Cheeseburger and Jelly (that would be jalapeno jelly). [Photographs: The Burger Bus] Name: The Burger Bus Vendors: Cheryl and Michael Gardner Twitter: @theburgerbus Location and hours? Tuesday through Fridays, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Saturdays are TBA. Locations vary but are always updated online. What's on the menu? Locally sourced cheeseburgers (including one with jelly), falafel, and sides like yam fries, fried pickle chips, and onion rings. How long have you been street fooding? Five months. How has Twitter affected business? Although Santa Barbara is a small city, Twitter helps remind...
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"Everyone likes Mexican food and everyone likes Chinese food, so why not combine forces?" [Flickr: R. E. ~] Name: Don Chow Tacos Vendors: Dominic Lau and Lawrence Lie. What do you sell? Chinese-Mexican fusion Twitter: @donchowtacos Location and hours: For now, Thursday through Saturday from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m., but we are looking to expand. Tacos. [Flickr: R. E. ~] How long have you been street fooding? About eight months. How has Twitter affected business? Twitter is definitely a great communication tool that's changed the way people communicate—but the food is still the most important part. It's safe to say that Twitter has helped us attract a tech-savvy audience who can know exactly when and where we are at...
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"On any single route, our trailers can carry 20 salads, 30 breads, and 40 soups—about 200 pounds in total." Jed Lazar showing off some chili. [Photographs: Ashley Sturm] Name: SoupCycle Vendors: Jed Lazar and Shauna Lambert Twitter: @SoupCycle Location and hours: All soups are bicycle-delivered to soupetarians (aka customers) at their homes and offices in Portland. We have three wonderful delivery folks, each of whom makes about 50 bicycle soup deliveries a day. We adjust our routes often to be as efficient as possible. Between that and the changing cycling weather, time to chat with customers during deliveries, and en-route bike repairs, we give you a big window of time when we'll deliver your tasty soup. What's on the menu?...
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Note: It's time for another edition of Street Food Profiles. This week we meet a banh mi truck. [Photographs: Nom Nom Truck] Name: Nom Nom Truck Vendor: David Stankunas Twitter: @nomnomtruck Location and hours: All over Los Angeles for lunch, evening, and late-night. Primarily we've been heading out to west Los Angeles, but we still get to places like Hollywood, mid-Wilshire, Koreatown, Silver Lake and Torrance. What's on the menu? Banh mi, Vietnamese-inspired tacos (basically a banh mi in a corn tortilla instead of bread), and various other Vietnamese snacks and drinks. How long have you been street fooding? For about 5 weeks. How has Twitter affected business? Twitter is a huge part of our business. Not only is it...
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Note: It's time for another edition of Street Food Profiles. This week we scoot to SoCal for architecturally inspired ice cream sandwiches, where even the wrapper is edible! Name: Coolhaus Ice Cream Sandwiches Vendors: Freya Estreller and Natasha Case Twitter: @COOLHAUS Location and hours: It varies. From Tuesday to Sunday, we're usually out between noon and sometimes as late as 2 a.m. [Flickr: JulianBleecker] What do you sell? All-natural, made-to-order ice cream sandwiches in a custom edible wrapper. (Zero waste!) For how long have you been street fooding? Since April of 2009....
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Note: It's time for another edition of Street Food Profiles. This week we scoot to North Carolina, not necessarily known as a street food hotspot but this burger truck is changing that. Name: Only Burger Vendors: Brian Bottger and Tom Ferguson Location and hours? Durham, North Carolina for lunch, dinner, and late night. Twitter: @onlyburger What's on the menu? Hamburgers, cheeseburgers, veggie burgers, turkey burgers and fries of course! (With occasional specials for special events.) How long have you been street fooding? Just one year. How has Twitter affected business? We have recently started tweeting our locations and specials. It has done wonders for our business and we have recently hit our 1,000th follower....
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Note: It's time for another edition of Street Food Profiles. This week we scoot to Portland, Oregon, a sidewalk cuisine mecca where this one-item menu finds inspiration from Bangkok vendors. [Photographs: Nong's Khao Man Gai] Name: Nong's Khao Man Gai (pronounced cow-mon-guy) Vendor: Narumol "Nong" Poonsukwattana Location and hours? SW 10th Avenue and Alder Street (map) across the street from Jake's Grill in Portland, Oregon. What do you sell? Khao Man Gai ($6), or poached chicken served on jasmine rice with cucumber slices and cilantro. And don't forget that little tub of sauce—it's made with fresh ginger, garlic, sugar, fermented soy beans, and chile, and meant to be poured all over the meal. The Piset (pee-set), or "special" in Thai,...
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Note: It's time for another edition of Street Food Profiles. This week we scoot to the West Coast. [Photographs: Green Truck] Name: Green Truck Vendor: Bobby Allen Location and hours? Multiple locations around Los Angeles, typically from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Follow @Green_truck on Twitter for updates. The "Mother Trucker" burger: a homemade vegan patty with heirloom tomatoes, sprouts, and mixed greens, topped with "Trucker sauce." What do you sell? Organic, vegan-friendly food, including burgers, chicken burritos, Niman beef hot dogs, line-caught albacore tuna sandwiches, falafel wraps with tzatziki, fries, and fresh melon frescas. How long have you been street fooding? The company formed in 2006 and we've been rolling around Los Angeles since early 2007....
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Note: It's time for another edition of Street Food Profiles. This week we scoot to Burlington, Vermont, where one woman has been selling dumplings for ten years. [Photographs: Hong's Chinese Dumplings] Name: Hong's Chinese Dumplings Vendor: Hong Yu Location and hours? Church Street in front of the Borders bookstore in Burlington, Vermont. Hours depend on the sunshine. What do you sell? Chicken and pork dumplings, veggie dumplings in pot sticker style, crab ragoons, shrimp egg rolls, veggie egg rolls, chicken cheese egg rolls, sesame cold noodles, and veggie fried rice along with homemade ginger garlic soy sauce, hot chili oil, and sweet cranberry sauce. How long have you been street-fooding? 10 years....
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The Fojol Bros. scoot around the D.C. streets selling "Merlindian" food, a made-up cuisine that crosses whimsy with traditional Indian food. The masala, curries, and palak paneer are all served in biodegradable clamshells with compost-friendly sporks.
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