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New Vegan Food Truck “Sunny Vibrations” Now at Dolores Park

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

How many late-’00s Mission District memes can you fit into one subject line?  Apparently not all of them:

Q:  What makes your ‘Taco Truck’ so different?
A:  First, we don’t even sell tacos, second we don’t just sell food but we are a community hub for health conscious people and are educating youth on organic gardening. (link)

I [...]

Burnt Food On Valencia Tonight

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

6 (six) fire trucks came out for this event. Nobody ate anything. No injuries. I did hear some helpful tips, though. I’m summarizing them below.
Please be careful when you’re cooking your food. If you burn it, there could be trouble.

Street Food Turf War

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Yesterday the New York Times published a phenomenal piece on the street food explosion in NYC and its resulting turf war.  Given our own street food renaissance, it is interesting to see how our east coast friends are handling a similar situation: a hazmat truck stand-off, narcing, threats of settings each other on fire, and [...]

The Carnaval Parade in Pictures

Monday, May 25th, 2009

Unless you live under a rock, you probably noticed there was a parade of things that would anger the Catholic church today in the Mission.  Unfortunately for the 20-something cool-kid crowd, it started at 9:30 this morning.  In the event you didn’t rail some lines off your iPhone while listening to Cut Copy to motivate [...]

Change Afoot Already: Mission Street Food Moves Indoors

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

This week, Mission Street Food enters a cocoon for a period of hibernation. Next week, it will emerge as a beautiful new butterfly. According to the official blog:
We’re announcing a new format for Mission Street Food: each week, we’ll feature a local guest chef/cook, who will offer his or her own dishes in addition to [...]

Best Restaurant in the Mission?

Monday, October 13th, 2008

The 2009 Michelin Guide to San Francisco Bay Area & Wine Country released its results today.  Range remains the only restaurant in the Mission to get a star and thus maintains its status as “a very good restaurant in its category.”  Known for being extremely frugal with its stars, the Michelin Guide refused to allow [...]

Late-Night Gourmet Roach Coach: Week 2

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

Tonight, Mission Street Food is back in full force. Chef Anthony wrote in after last week’s big debut:
Hi, this is Anthony. Thanks to everyone who came and withstood a long wait, and sorry to anyone who came after we sold out. I was expecting a soft opening consisting of foot traffic and a couple of [...]

Burrito Justice for High Schoolers

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Johnny0 from Burrito Justice has the scoop on some injustice regarding taco trucks and Mission District high schools:
The drama increases — apparently the sups passed a law banning “mobile food establishments” to enforce a “wellness policy” to protect school lunch programs. Except that…
- only seniors can go off campus for lunch
- NO students were actually [...]