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Oatmeal Brûlée from the Sweetgreen Truck in Washington, D.C.

"Finally, a food truck selling oatmeal—and it's maybe the best you've ever had." [Photographs: Erin Zimmer] Oatmeal enthusiasts are used to having a spoon, bowl, and if you're really hardcore, a spurtle on-hand, but a blowtorch? Oatmeal brûlée has to be the most exciting thing happening in the oatmeal world today. "It took a blizzard to figure it out," said Bona Park, who drives Sweetgreen's Sweetflow Mobile, the Washington D.C. salad and frozen yogurt chain's bright yellow truck. While trapped indoors during the city's recent Snowpocalypse, she started channeling her inner pyro with oatmeal. Technically it's "quotmeal," a mix of oats and red and white quinoa, which soaks overnight, then goes into a rice cooker for a half-hour the next...

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5 Comments | Posted by Erin Zimmer, February 22, 2010 at 7:30 AM
Tagged: brulee, oatmeal, oatmeal brulee, quinoa, Sweetgreen, Washington D.C.

New Food Position: Sourceress?

The D.C.-based salad and yogurt chain Sweetgreen is so big on sourcing sustainable ingredients, the company just appointed a "sourceress." Her responsibilities involve working with farmers to get just-picked pears and pesticide-free peppers. Is this the next big restaurant position? (We're assuming sourcerer is the male counterpart.)...

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3 Comments | Posted by Erin Zimmer, February 4, 2010 at 5:30 PM
Tagged: sustainability, Sweetgreen, Washington D.C.

Sweet Green's Sweetflow Mobile, a Frozen Yogurt Truck in D.C.

At one point, it seemed insane that television screens could go into cars. But this is so much cooler than watching a movie from the backseat—in the Sweetflow Mobile, from Washington D.C.-based mini salad chain Sweet Green, you can pull down on a frozen yogurt nozzle in the backseat. (Or watch from outside as a trained nozzle-puller does it.) The mobile frozen yogurt truck was custom-built in Europe, arrived by boat, and first started roaming around the city in early June. As with other street vendors, Sweetflow Mobile is sending updated information on the truck's whereabouts via Twitter (@sweetflowmobile). Last week, it cruised by Eastern Market's grand re-opening, the 9:30 Club after a Michael Jackson tribute band played, and...

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3 Comments | Posted by Erin Zimmer, June 29, 2009 at 2:45 PM
Tagged: food trucks, frozen yogurt, street vendors, Sweet Green, Washington D.C.