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Dogs on a Truck from Dogtown Dogs

December 9th, 2009 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit

A prefectly unveganized hot dog.

No, this isn’t LA’s new mobile petshop, although that is a genius idea that someone should really get on. Instead, it is another one of LA’s constantly expanding collection of mobile food trucks. Dogtown Dogs specializes in hot dogs, which isn’t entirely creative considering the existence of Let’s Be Frank. Despite this, I tracked them down one night after hearing some pretty good things about their dogs. As with most mobile eateries, I ended up finding them parked near the Brig on Abbot Kinney. Continue Reading»

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Abbot Kinney, Bacon, dogtown dogs, egg, food trucks, Hot Dogs, Los Angeles, meat, Mobile, the brig, Venice

Frysmith Rolling Out Today

November 20th, 2009 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit

Try them out tonight!

The newest food truck to roll out onto the streets of Los Angeles will be Frysmith and their official launch is none other than tonight at 6:30 at the Brig was November 20th. I haven’t had a chance to test out their offerings yet, but what I’ve seen on their website looks pretty impressive. I did catch up with owners Erik and Brook to get a few questions in.

Check out the interview below.

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food trucks, fries, frysmith, poutine, the brig, unvegan

The First Melt at the Grilled Cheese Truck

October 27th, 2009 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit

So shiny and like-new

The highly anticipated Grilled Cheese Truck finally rolled into town tonight and due to my frightening obsession with cheese, I made sure to greet the truck. In the tradition of other great ks before it, the unveiling took place at The Brig on Abbot Kinney. I arrived 15 minutes before the scheduled 8:00 start time and was shocked to find the parking lot at The Brig empty except for the shiny orange truck. Apparently, I was to be the first in line! Continue Reading»

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Abbot Kinney, Bacon, Cheese, food trucks, grilled cheese truck, Los Angeles, Mobile, ribs, samples, the brig, Venice

Almost Deja Vu at the Nom Nom Truck

August 27th, 2009 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit

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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Chicken, fishlips, food, kogi, meat, Mexican, Mobile, nom nom truck, Reviews, taco trucks, the brig, vietnamese

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.

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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food, Korean, Late-Night, Los Angeles, meat, Mexican, Mobile, taco trucks, the brig

Rants and Raves

At Least I Eat Them

March 26th, 2010

Old, but still true.

So here’s the deal. Every time anyone outside of PETA does anything to harm an animal, they risk the wrath of PETA. Notice I said anyone “outside,” because apparently harming animals from inside PETA is no problem. I knew they were hypocritical because one of their head honchos uses insulin from pigs, but AOL News reports that the hypocrisy much bigger than that.

UNVEGAN FANS: HELP STUDENTS LEARN ABOUT DELICIOUS FOOD!

Future Foodies!

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