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Drunk Trucking at Tacos El Gallito

July 2nd, 2010 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit

A truck worth blogging about.

In my experience, most taco trucks aren’t worth blogging about.  It’s not that I feel like I am too good for them or that they aren’t interesting, but in most cases I have found that they all taste pretty much the same.  This is not true of Tacos El Gallito.  I stopped by here one night with no plans to blog, but just hoping to get a decent taco.  Instead, I had one of my most legendary LA nights and wound up befriending a couple of their Mexican patrons named Toast and Reuben.  I also fell in love with the truck and vowed to return to give them a proper unvegan review. Continue Reading»

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More First Fridays with the Flying Pig

November 12th, 2009 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit
Who wouldn't eat from a bright pink truck?

Who wouldn't eat from a bright pink truck?

For my second course on First Fridays in Abbot Kinney, I headed out to one of LA’s newest food trucks, the Flying Pig.  When I first read about this Mexican-French fusion truck, I wasn’t too amazed by what I read.  Fusing Mexican food with Asian is one thing, but to try to fuse it with French as well seemed like a strange niche that I didn’t need to explore.  Lo and behold, my opinion changed when I saw the truck and the happy customers outside of it. Continue Reading»

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More Food Trucking with Don Chow Tacos

October 30th, 2009 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit
Not quite as shiny as the other trucks...

Not quite as shiny as the other trucks...

Although the Grilled Cheese Truck is the newest member of LA’s fleet of food trucks, Don Chow has already been roaming the streets in search of hungry night life for months.

The truck isn’t nearly as shiny as Kogi or Nom Nom, but I’ve never felt the need to be served from a shiny establishment.  In fact, when I did catch up with the Don Chow truck in Venice, the cheap sign had fallen off and it looked like any other generic taco truck.  Good thing my girlfriend noticed a small sign on the front of the truck ensuring us it was Don Chow. Continue Reading»

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Almost Deja Vu at the Nom Nom Truck

August 27th, 2009 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit
Like a shiny beacon of Vietnamese-ness.

Like a shiny beacon of Vietnamese-ness.

A little more than eight months after my first taste of Kogi BBQ, I found myself once again standing in the parking lot of The Brig, eager to take on another food truck inspired by the fusion of Asian and Mexican food.  If so much hadn’t changed in the food truck scene of LA since that first taste of Kogi, I would have felt some intense deja vu.  Since the arrival of Kogi, it feels like a new food truck is unrolled every week.  From the architecturally inspired ice cream sandwiches of Coolhaus to the beautiful women running Baby’s Badass Burger truck, I almost feel like LA offers more food on wheels than it does in restaurants, with more coming.  Nonetheless, the official opening of the Vietnamese and Mexican fusion Nom Nom Truck was exciting for me, and I made my way to The Brig in Venice to see if I would have a new friend on wheels. Continue Reading»

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Kogi BBQ

December 17th, 2008 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit
This is what Mexico and Korea should look like. Don't worry, that green stuff is cilantro.

This is what Mexico and Korea should look like. Don't worry, that green stuff is cilantro.

Over the weekend, a friend of mine enlightened me to the existence of Kogi BBQ, a Korean taco truck.  The very concept of this blew my mind, in a good way.  The truck’s whereabouts can be tracked via Twitter.  Now I’m not entirely sure what Twitter is (perhaps a polite way to say twister without offending people with lisps?), but we found out that the truck would be outside of a bar called The Brig on Abbot Kinney that night.

We set off, and although most of my friends were looking forward to the bar, I really only cared about the taco truck. Continue Reading»

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Going Global at Plan Check

Fries of the world.

A couple of weeks ago, The Backyard Bite invited me to The Burger Culture Clash, sponsored by Stussy (which apparently still exists) and Plan Check. Plan Check, by the way, is a sort of new (since February) restaurant in West LA with Chef Ernesto Uchimura of Umami Burger fame. As my love of burgers, especially those of the umami variety, I jumped at the opportunity.

Although I arrived alone, I was not the only lone eater. Just next to where I was seated, I met e*star LA and we decided to share a meal called loneliness, because it’s better than eating alone. We made quick friends over our respective blogs and Midwestern roots, then got to work at dissecting the special menu, which Plan Check will be featuring for the next month if anything tickles your fancy.

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