Street Food for Everyone

This past Saturday on a small stretch of Folsom street in the Mission District throngs of people got together to eat. The street food craze has hit urban areas around the country and over the past few years has built a head of steam so big that many of these "food corner crusaders" have gone legit. The San Francisco Street Food Festival brought together illegal food vendors, local restaurants, and upstart entrepreneurs who work with La Cocina (please click this link to learn what La Cocina does, it is really cool) to present to the people of San Francisco the beauty of street food. Together this rag tag band of foodies put on an event that by the looks of it will be around next year too!

 When Shauna and I arrived the festival had been raging since 11:00 AM.  The crowd was huge and by all accounts unexpected. Many of the vendors had put "sold out" signs over some of their offerings and the lines were crazy. We walked around and were only able to people watch due to the long lines and being impatient. I have always wanted to try some of the street food but I will have follow the Twitter feeds and hope to catch them somewhere in San Francisco. For a list of all the participants please view this link: San Francisco Street Food Festival. To find some of the street food vendors you have to either hunt them down or many of them have Twitter feeds, blogs or websites.

The Creme Brulee Cart

Urban Nectar (Juice)

Bacon Dog Cart

Kogi Taco Truck (this was not at the fair, as it is in LA)

Mission Street Food

If you know of any others, please comment to the this post so others will know!