Three dozen taco-lovin' riders descended on Fruitvale last month.
Call it critical mass for lengua lovers. California Taco Trucks blogger and NPR tech contributor Cyrus Farivar is organizing a second free bike tour of Oakland taco trucks this Sunday. Last month, Farivar led some some three dozen taco aficionados through Fruitvale. For Taco Truck Tour Numéro Dos, Farivar is asking riders to meet up at 12:30 p.m. at Lake Merritt BART (800 Madison at Ninth St., Oakland). For the next three hours, you'll hit up five trucks along Foothill Boulevard, Fruitvale's eastern boundary (see the loncheria list here). Farivar suggests packing $10-$15, a helmet, and possibly a camera. RSVP to Cyrus@CaliforniaTacoTrucks.com, and type "Fruitvale taco truck bike tour" in the subject line.
The upcoming workshop "How to Sell from a Mobile Unit (Legally!) in the Bay Area" hopes to dish out the 411 needed to hawk food on wheels.
Local business incubator La Cocina will break down the daunting and morphing but potentially doable path to running a food truck or mobile cart business. The discussion will include Matt Cohen, who recently relaunched his street-food aggregating site into a broader resource for vendors and the public called SF Cart Project, and yet-to-be-named city reps.
The mobile food business will be demystified on Wednesday, Dec. 16, at 6 p.m. at La Cocina (2948 Folsom at 25th St.). General admission is $25 (free to La Cocina program participants and clients of partner organizations, $15 for commercial users); RSVP if you're going to attend.
Mission Street Food gets saucy this week with Booze Night for Ladies' Night on Thursday, Nov. 19. In other words, MSF will present a menu of alcohol-tinged tastiness, with proceeds to benefit Ladies' Night, a nonprofit program from the Women's Community Clinic, the Mission Neighborhood Resource Center, and the Haight's Homeless Youth Alliance that hosts a weekly sit-down meal and other vital services for women.
Steven Gdula, author of The Warmest Room in the House: How the Kitchen Became the Heart of the 20th Century Home and proprietor of Gobba Gobba Hey, will be the guest pastry chef for the evening. He plans to offer a flight of three alcohol-infused gobs (kind of a cake sandwich): chocolate raspberry with Absinthe, buttered rum with spiced pumpkin, and Irish coffee. Sounds like a good accompaniment for the other dessert offering, a scoop of Humphry Slocombe Secret Breakfast ice cream (bourbon and corn flakes). Elyse Winery will donate wine, which will be sold for half off the retail price.
Fresh porcini season has invaded our slumber. We still dream about good stuff -- treasure troves, sprawling country estates populated by sweet fluffy fantasy fauna -- along with the bad -- broken teeth, hypodermic needles, and college classes in buildings we can't find. But we must confess that, the night following a particularly stellar wild mushroom risotto, our subconscious went all mycological on us -- in a resoundingly positive fashion.
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One piece makes you fuller.
In our reverie, we imagined finding a Prius-size porcini in the backyard of our large house on a sprawling country estate populated by sweet, fluffy fantasy fauna, an edible treasure trove at which we could hack away for an eternity of delicious pizza toppings, pasta sauces, and rich risotti.
Back here on Earth, we're excited about the Mycological Society of San Francisco's annual Fungus Fair, set to take place 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Dec. 5 and 6 at the Lawrence Hall of Science (1 Centennial at Cyclotron Rd., Berkeley). Held in rotating Bay Area counties since 1969, the fair provides information on the uses and abuses of fungi, with displays and exhibits on ecology, toxicology, and cultivation. Amateur sleuths can show up for identification tutorials; cooks can check out cooking demonstrations and purchase cookbooks; and hungry people can belly up to an assortment of 'shroomy snacks and soups.
Bottle lineup at July's Indy Spirits Expo in New York City.
Like indy movies, indy booze has so infiltrated restaurant bar walls and home liquor cabinets that it might not fit the profile of obscure, exactly. Still, tomorrow's 2009 Indy Spirits Expo at Mighty (119 Utah at 15th St.) offers the chance to crawl deep into one micro-distilled bottle after another -- bottles you can't just pick up at the corner market. Think Tuthilltown vodka, distilled from Hudson Valley cider, or 44° North vodka, distilled in Idaho from local spuds. Or Choya's umeshu, the Japanese fruit liqueur flavored with ume plums. Interesting, right? Locavore spirit infused with the wonky charm of distillers committed to creating something it'd be sacrilege to drown in Ocean Spray and call a Crantini. The Expo is on from 6p.m. to 9 p.m. (doors open at 5). General admission is $50, $75 for VIP (which gets you in an hour early). Buy tix here.
For $150, you'll probably be able to hit him with your underwear.
No dives on this tour. Although Guy Fieri is the Joe the Plumber of the food world, tickets to his Roadshow are urban-elites steep. The only Bay Area appearance for the Guy Fieri Roadshow, produced by his company, Knuckle Sandwich, will be at the San Jose Civic Auditorium Dec. 16. We found tickets ranging in price from $28 to a whopping $718, depending on where you buy 'em.
Stubhub prices are higher, possibly because they're set by sellers, who can ask as much as they want. But Ticketmaster has two packages for those willing to pony up serious dough to see the Diners, Drive-ins and Dives star up close and personal. The "Off Da Hook" package includes a seat on stage, a book, squirt bottle, and preshow meet and greet, all for $253. For $150, the "Kulinary Krew" package gets you the same thing, minus the on-stage seat. But, hey, you'll probably still be close enough to hit Fieri with your bra.
Roger Feely, a culinary instructor, DJ, and street-food purveyor -- all under the Soul Cocina banner -- will be the guest chef for a dinner event called Localize, with ingredients sourced from the Bay Area and ideas inspired by Feely's cooking and spice studies in India.
Highlights of the menu include kachori with Van Mourik Nut Farm almonds and Catalan Family Farm pumpkin, naan made from Sour Flour sourdough, curried Marin Sun Farms goat, and red walnut cake, with nuts from Alemany Market Nut Stand. This soulful edition of Localize takes place Monday, Nov. 23, 6:30-10 p.m., at Local Kitchen & Wine Merchant (330 First St. at Guy). Tickets for the dinner and pairing with Roederer Estate wines are $88; $64 without the wine. As of this posting, there were 33 dinner-with-wine tickets available, two for dinner only. Scoop them up at Eventbrite.
Frog Hollow Farm has more than preserves, peaches, pears, and cherries to offer. In the past few years, the Brentwood farm has been pressing extra-virgin oil from its own olives. Taste the results at Sunday's harvest party at the East Bay farm, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 11435 Brentwood Boulevard (at TK), Brentwood. Tickets are $30-$65, and include lunch (with wine from Brentwood's Bloomfield Vineyards), as well as the chance to win an orchard tour with Frog Hollow founder, farmer Al Courchesne. You could also score face time with both legendary purveyor Darrell Corti of Corti Brothers, and KCBS food and wine editor Narsai David. And if you feel like loading up on olives, you can even do a little U-pick. Advance tickets required.
If the wild foods trend gets any wilder, diners themselves will end up spearing wild boars at the table, perhaps even risking life and limb to subdue their own maniac morels as well. Blessedly, the Wild Kitchen adheres to a less terrifying vision of wild-ness: according to a press release, "wild means uncultivated ... [food] human hands have never touched ... until the day of its harvest."
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Boris Portnoy is going seriously wild next Friday at SoCha.
The organization's mission with regard to the cornucopia of the area's non-farmed edibles comes to a delicious head next Friday, Nov. 20. The Wild Kitchen, with special guest chef Boris Portnoy (formerly pastry chef of the late, lauded Winterland), is presenting two courses of a Basque-tinged foraged food feast at SoCha Café (3235 Mission. at Valencia): a prix-fixe menu of seven courses, organized by local forager and wild chef Iso Rabins. The feta cake of Mendocino ocean water with Berkeley-foraged persimmons looks promising, but considering Portnoy's facility with pastry, we're particularly looking forward to the black olive and foraged black walnut financier.
The cost is $50 (there's a $10 corkage fee, plus beer and wine for purchase). Or consider some more creative exchange than cash, like swapping something the organizers want, offering up the use of your truck, or even helping out at the event (if you have restaurant experience). Questions? E-mail Rabins at WildKitchen@gmail.com.
A scene from a previous FMC dinner. Honestly, we have no idea who this guy is.
Named for the food restaurant workers sit down to during their shifts, the Family Meal Collective is a new underground (i.e., unpermitted) supperclub by a trio of working and would-be food professionals. Far be it from us to suggest you do anything illegal; we're just happening to note that FMC dinners are unrolling in undisclosed locations on consecutive Sundays this month, on Nov. 15 and 22. Organizers call each prix-fixe a "special communal dining experience": five courses served, um, family style. Course names for Sunday's dinner include a Parsnips and Eggs amuse, followed by Breakfast for Supper (slow-cooked chicken hash with roti, hummus, and quail eggs). The cost: $39, with an optional $13 for drink pairings.
As for the mystery hosts of FMC, we've had e-mail exchanges, and can reveal that they're a collaboration trifecta of a real-life restaurant chef, a self-described connoisseur of food and art, and a wannabe mixologist. Beyond that, our lips are sealed.
To request a spot for either dinner, e-mail info@familymealcollective.com
Get ready to cock your pinky and get all air-kissy. Tonight, artisan jam maker Blue Chair Fruit is celebrating high tea from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Paul Mahder Gallery (3378 Sacramento at Walnut) in Presidio Heights. The free event offers a chance to sample food in an artsy setting. Dip and nibble oh-so delicately on three jam and marmalade pairings, with three different scones by chef Afreen Wahad of local catering company Cuisine Afreen. Puerh tea will be served. You can also learn about Blue Chair owner Rachel Saunders' preserving process, with -- natch -- plenty of jams and gift bags for sale.
Chocolate Mayan calendar by local artisan the Xocolate Bar.
This weekend's Holiday Chocolate Show will host nearly 30 local independent confectioners, and should prove to be a good spot for scoring some thoughtful and beautiful holiday gifts, taking a snapshot of the range of ideas and presentations bubbling up in the Bay Area, or just sampling yourself silly on freebies.
In a list of high-quality vendors that our extensive research has found are pretty much all worth a nibble, there are a few stand outs: Emeryville's Charles Chocolates for triple chocolate almonds, Scotts Valley's Chocolate Visions for thick bars, Berkeley's the Xocolate Bar for edible (and sometimes erotic) art, Oakland's Coco Delice for peanut butter bonbons, and S.F.'s Neo Cocoa for classic truffles. Hit these up first before the pickin's get slim.
The cacao-fueled adventure takes place this Saturday, Nov. 14, from noon to 5 p.m. at Herbst Pavilion (99 Marina, in Fort Mason Center). Tickets are $21 ($11 children); get more info and purchase tickets at the official site.
Console yourself with bacon. Lots and lots of bacon.
Bad news, bacon fans, or at least a mixed bag. Due to a medical emergency, writer-gourmand-shop owner Ari Weinzweig cannot travel. Meaning he won't be at The Pasta Shop in Oakland (5655 College at Shafter) tonight to sign copies of his new bacon tome, Zingerman's Guide to Better Bacon: Stories of Pork Bellies, Hush Puppies, Rock 'n' Roll and Bacon Fat Mayonnaise (Zingerman's Press, $29.99). The Pasta Shop is still putting on a free bacon tasting from 4 to 6 p.m., however, and can arrange to have the author inscribe books. Or just wait till Jan. 16, when Weinzweig is due to appear at Omnivore Books (3885A Cesar Chavez at Church).
Missed last month's panel discussion on street food at the Commonwealth Club? No worries -- audio is now available. To refresh: On Oct. 29, SFoodie contributor Tamara Palmer moderated The Street Food Movement: SF Hearts the Cart, a discussion about the challenges of selling street food in San Francisco, with Charles Phan (The Slanted Door, Out the Door), Steven Gdula (Gobba Gobba Hey), Anthony Myint (Misison Street Food), and Brian Kimball (Magic Curry Kart). A tasting at 111 Minna followed, emotionally charged by the recent detention of Amuse Bouche vendor Murat Celebi-Ariner. Listen here.
On Wednesday, two Michelin-starred chefs are teaming up for a six-course Tuscan dinner at Luce in the InterContinental Hotel (888 Howard at Fifth St.). Luce chef Dominique Crenn is collaborating with Donatella Zampoli, exec chef for the wine estates of Marchesi de' Frescobaldi. Dinners' served from 5:30 p.m. on, though it's not an affair with formal seatings, but rather a drop-in-and-eat-when-you-like dealio. Menu highlights include duck breast with Parmesan risotto and gnocchi with bone marrow and lobster.
The two chefs are friends, and plan to be in the dining room for co-shmoozing. Dinner is $75 -- $105 with wine pairings from Frescobaldi. A portion of the sales benefit CUESA. For rezzies, call 616-6566, or reserve at Open Table.
One of the most endearing aspects of Pixar's incredibly charming digital 3D flick UP is how Oakland ice cream institution Fenton's Creamery (4226 Piedmont at Entrada, Oakland) is one of the chief draws back to land for the balloon-flying main characters, a place of great sentimental importance. Stop by the shop next Tuesday, Nov. 10, from 5-8 p.m. to celebrate the Blu-Ray and DVD releases of the film. Pixar animators will demonstrate how they drew the characters, with contests to win the film, Pixar prize packages, and free ice cream from Fenton's.
There'll also be a "Spirit of Adventure" sundae served for that occasion and that occasion only. We don't have any further details on flavors, but if you truly have a spirit of adventure, you can roll with anything.
Cookies, sprinkles, finger sandwiches, and a good cause: 'tis the season! Or at least the beginning of it. On Saturday, One Market (One Market at Steuart) is hosting a cookie decorating party. You get a cookie-pimping kit assembled by Patti Dellamoncia-Bauler, the restaurant's pastry chef: three cookies, and enough icing, sprinkles, and candies to morph them into your own creations. Finger sandwiches and non-alcoholic drinks are included in the $20 ticket price; additional cookies sold for $5 each. The event runs from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Proceeds benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Advanced reservations needed -- call 777.5577 and mention "Gingerbread Wishes Decorating Party."
Within weeks, Nombe, a joint venture of O Izakaya's Nick Balla (along with Mari Takahashi and Gil Payne of Sozai) promises to bring a blend of traditional and contemporary izakaya food -- Japanese tapas-like dishes that go well with drinks -- to the vacated Tacos Santana space on Mission at 21st Street. Tonight, Balla is previewing the Nombe menu at Mission Street Food, and from the looks of it, braving the daunting line wouldn't be a bad idea. We already have our unreasonably hefty order planned out: Fuyu persimmon with bitter greens and grated wasabi ($6); the fusion-y Mission Motzu, or tripe, heart, liver, and short ribs in a soy-based broth with chiles, cabbage, garlic chives, and avocado ($8); rib eye with nagaimo, spinach, and whole-grain mustard ($9); and, for dessert, the wonderfully esoteric crab fritters with edamame purée, pickled hon shiallameji mushrooms, and nori "soil" on flatbread ($10). What's just as wonderful is that a healthy portion of the proceeds go to free restaurant Martin de Porres House of Hospitality.
Yet another butcher-chef-fire event (this one called Primal) is happening Saturday in Napa -- observe the breakdown of a pig, a goat, a cow, and a lamb, and taste the results. Incanto's Chris Cosentino, Perbacco's Staffan Terje, Fatted Calf's Taylor Boetticher, 4505 Meats' Ryan Farr, and Ubuntu's Jeremy Fox will all celebrate the art of butchery and heritage breeds at an outdoor party at Chase Cellars at Hayne Vineyard (2252 Sulphur Springs at Crane, St. Helena). Butchers from Avedano's and Star Meats Berkeley will also be wielding their cleavers and manning the fires; heritage meats and produce from Hudson Ranch are under the knife. Boutique wines and craft beers. Tickets are $65 for general admission, $100 for VIPs. The higher ticket price gets you in an hour earlier, premium wines, cocktails from Daniel Hyatt of The Alembic, and special tasty nibbles. The event's from 3-7 p.m. Buy tix online.
Proto food blogger and reported David Chang foe Pim Techamuanvivit will read and sign copies of her book The Foodie Handbook: The (Almost) Definitive Guide to Gastronomy (Chronicle Books, $24.95) starting at 7:30 p.m. tonight at the Marina location of Books Inc. (2251 Chestnut Street at Pierce). Pim promises on her blog, Chez Pim, "a reading and more recipes from my new book .... You might even win a few jars of my jam!" We double hot-dog dare you to ask Pim about her own personal David Chang shit storm, and whether or not she made it all up. For a decidedly more mellow experience, check out Pim's video trailer that includes footage of her buying fruit in Saratoga.
The 35th Winter Fancy Food Show descends on Moscone Center January 17-19 and will leave glad tidings behind in the form of a charitable donation. In an initiative launched in conjunction with Feed The Hungry at last year's edition of the trade conference, organizer NASFT once again aims to donate over 100,000 pounds of specialty food products to various community organizations after the show.
SFoodie counts down the days to each year's installment of Fancy Food, where we love learning about new products and companies and the eating is real good. That nothing will go to waste in this impossibly large display of gastronomic delights of all types makes it that much more exciting.
It's a big week for bookish San Francisco foodies interested in sustainable farming, vegetarianism, and foraging.
• Tomorrow, Wendell Berry -- writer, farmer, and godfather of the organic farming movement -- appears at Herbst Theatre (401 Van Ness at McAllister) in conversation with Michael Pollan for a City Arts and Lectures event. The utterings of both are often quoted (Berry: "Eating is an agricultural act"; Pollan: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." Perhaps tomorrow's talk will yield more gems. (The event is sold out, but in the past, we've had success buying extra tickets from attendees outside Herbst.) In any event, it should be altogether more civilized than Wednesday's equally booked appearance by David Chang (with Chris Cosentino, among others) at Cafe du Nord.
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Foer: Overthinking the porkchop?
• On Thursday, Nov. 5, super-committed foodies might want to attend two high-profile events. Langdon Cook, author of Fat of the Land: Adventures of a 21st Century Forager, appears for a free discussion at Omnivore Books (3885 Cesar Chavez at Church) at 6 p.m.
• Then, at 8 p.m. at the Jewish Community Center (3200 California at Presidio), there's an appearance by Jonathan Safran Foer. The birth of the author's first child first child precipitated the comic novel Everything is Illuminated. A serious examination of the ethics of eating flesh resulted in his new nonfiction book, Eating Animals (the one-word response to the implied question of the title is No, by the way. Tickets are $10-$18 -- or wait till Friday, Nov. 6, and you can hear Foer for free at 7 p.m. in the Multicultural Community Center at U.C. Berkeley's Student Union (Telegraph at Bancroft, Berkeley).
Last year's inaugural Fabulous Food Festival was underwhelming, more akin to a holiday craft fair than a place for epicurean discovery. However, this year's edition should prove more interesting, if only because of Julia Child impersonator Carly Ozard, who will roam the festival landscape and hopefully whisk the crowd into shape. Whether she'll dispense advice and recipes straight from Child's considerable book catalog is unknown. Find out this Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 7-8, at Concourse Exhibition Center (635 Eighth St. at Brannan) from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $10.
Another carving party led by meat superstars Ryan Farr and Taylor Boetticher will throw down when Petting Zoo hits at Bloodhound (1145 Folsom at Seventh St.) next Tuesday, Nov. 3. Forty large will get you all the (spit-roasted) food you can eat, demonstration viewing, and one free cocktail at the bar. The chefs will tag-team butcher a goat and a lamb, as well as spit-roast an entire hog over an open fire. Chicken beer sausages, pork-crack chicharrones, rabbit crepinettes, salami, and bacon brownies promise to round out the carno-riffic menu. Adding to the meaty fun is the rather mysterious bacon-flavored libation available for all takers at the bar. No need to bum rush the doors, which open at 6 p.m.: Plans call for trotting out the food in a steady fashion throughout the night. Advance tickets are required.
Mission Street Food's Anthony Myint (left) with Magic Curry Kart's Brian Kimball.
A full house celebrated San Francisco's street-food scene at last night's panel discussion at the Commonwealth Club, The Street Food Movement: SF Hearts the Cart, moderated by SFoodie blogger Tamara Palmer. In fact, a number of the 250 in attendance were so inflamed by the prospect of sampling street-food wares at a companion tasting at nearby gallery space 111 Minna., they cut out of the auditorium early to go stand in line for treats.
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Charles Phan: Thinking about production is key.
We were among the stalwarts who stayed to the end of the Q&A session, which -- predictably -- ended with the hopeful Q, "Any brilliant ideas for carts?" Brian Kimball of Magic Curry Kart, who's working towards becoming a licensed psychotherapist, responded, "Make what you're good at." The Slanted Door's Charles Phan, in his role as elder statesman and practical guy, said, "You have to think about time and salability. Production is really important."
The four panelists were collegial but wildly different. Soft-spoken professional cook Anthony Myint of Mission Burger and Mission Street Food was serious about making charitable donations (in his case, to organizations fighting hunger) part of the business plan. Gobba Gobba Hey's Steven Gdula, who turned to baking gobs when the recession made his freelance food writing career difficult, started baking a dozen pastries at a time in his home oven and has transitioned to being able to turn out six dozen in eight minutes in a commercial kitchen.
Fifth Floor Restaurant (12 Fourth St. at Market) is hosting a Mad Hatter wine dinner tomorrow evening, complete with a mad-hat dress code and multiple courses from chef Jennie Lorenzo. The celebration starts at 7 p.m. -- it's in honor of the launch of the 2006 Mad Hatter Shiraz from South Australia's Hewitson Wines (a series of similar Mad Hatter events is happening across the country). According to the Hewitson Web site, the hatter nickname comes from friends of chief winemaker and company CEO Dean Hewitson, and doesn't necessarily refer to the Lewis Carrol character. Hmm. Tickets are $75 -- call 323-871-1151, or e-mail madhattertourSF@gmail.com
YBCA has cooked up a cute promo video for its next "Big Idea Night" bash, a Top Chef-style skit featuring some of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and chef Elizabeth Falkner. The party, hosted by Sister Sara Femme and Ani Rivera and featuring food from Falkner's Citizen Cake and Orson, takes place on Saturday, Nov. 14 from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. and is free with RSVP.
Wild Game Week at Big 4 in the Huntington Hotel (1075 California at Cushing) offers an annual chance to indulge in extreme eating. Highlights from this year's menu by chef Gloria Ciccarone-Nehls include Brazilian piranha "ribs," spicy alligator sausage panini, pancetta-crusted petite filet of llama and buffalo short rib, and a wild paella of crispy frog legs, rabbit-rattlesnake sausage, snails, and wild Nigerian salt prawns.
Dining on the edge isn't exactly cheap, though. Starters are priced from $16 to $19, entrees $39 to $50. Save your cash and sharpen your tummy: Wild Game Week takes place Nov. 3-7.
The moral debate about meat continues: whether to eat it, and if so, then what kind? Industrial meat, with its allegations of animal abuse, cramped quarters, and ongoing food safety violations, presents a certain queasiness in even the most rabid of carnivores. On the other hand, sustainably raised meat presents something of a middle ground.
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Is it possible to eat only "good" meat?
That's what's under discussion at In Search of a Righteous Porkchop this Thursday, Oct. 29, at 6:30 p.m. Panelists include Nicolette Hahn Niman, an attorney, West Marin rancher, and author of Righteous Porkchop: Finding a Life and Good Food Beyond Factory Farms; David Evans, fourth generation rancher and owner of Marin Sun Farms; and Aaron French, chef at The Sunny Side Café in the East Bay, and ecologist and author of the forthcoming The Bay Area Homegrown Cookbook. Elanor Starmer, a researcher and policy analyst for the national consumer advocacy organization Food and Water Watch, moderates.
The free event includes farmers' market snacks, and is open to the public; donations are accepted. Head to the Port Commission Hearing Room, on the second floor of the Ferry Building (One Ferry Building at the Embarcadero).
A reminder: SFoodie's Tamara Palmer is moderating a panel of high- and low-end contributors to S.F.'s street food scene this Thursday at the Commonwealth Club's The Street Food Movement: SF Hearts the Cart. Speakers range from Charles Phan of The Slanted Door and Anthony Myint of pop-up restaurant Mission Street Food to micro-moguls Brian Kimball, who operates the Magic Curry Kart, and Steve Gdula, baker of Gobba Gobba Hey. The panel will discuss what's coming up as well as what's going on, and will answer audience questions. "We'll discuss the very different paths and motivations that led our panelists into street food as well as the challenges of legitimacy, both in terms of licensing and technique," Palmer told us. "And then, we'll feast!"
Which means that after the discussion, everybody will take to the streets, walking over to 111 Minna Gallery (111 Minna at Second St.), where they can sample some freebies and purchase full-size treats from such heroes of the movement as Bacon Potato Chips, Bike Basket Pies, Crème Brûlée Cart, Gobba Gobba Hey, Magic Curry Kart, Mission Street Food, Soul Cocina, Sweet Constructions, and Smitten Ice Cream. "It should be a great snapshot of our local scene, especially for those who have yet to run around the streets looking for vendors," Palmer said.
The Street Food Movement: SF Hearts the Cart Commonwealth Club, 595 Market (at Second St.), 597-6700. Thursday, Oct. 29, 6:30 p.m. Tickets: $12 for club members, $20 for non-members, and $7 for students with a valid ID.
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