Hi!
My name is Bill, and I’m a big fan of “alternative cuisine” – anything that’s really, really good but comes from an unusual source. And I particularly love food trucks and trailers.
Food trucks are the hottest trend in dining today, but I feel Silicon Valley has not been represented well in this phenomenon – if you look on the web or watch “Food Truck Wars,” it seems like there are no food trucks here at all and that all the action is in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
There have been food trucks, good ones, in San Jose for years. From the burrito truck that is more-or-less permanently encamped at my local Mexican food store to NetApetit, which used to set up outside building 5 at Cisco when I worked there. With your help, I want to find all the food trucks and trailers in the valley (and maybe a little beyond) and catalog them all in one place – right here!
But I need your help. For one thing, I’m employed more than full-time – I don’t have time to get to all the food trucks out there on a timely basis. However, a more pressing problem is that I’m mostly vegetarian – I eat some fish once in a while, but I don’t eat chicken, beef, or pork. So I’m depending on you to let us know what’s good out there that isn’t made of tofu or mushrooms!
So the deal is simple: give a little, by making comments, suggesting places to try, or sending complete articles about local food trucks, to get a little: all the local food truck information in one easy-to-find place.
Truck fans, if you are in the neighborhood, your favorite trucks are appearing daily at 3130 Zanker Road, corner of Zanker and Montague. Pull in at the sign for Lockheed Martin. Plenty of shade and seating open to the public. Louisiana Territory, MoBowl, House of Siam, WOW Silog, Monday Truck, BBQ Kalbi. Toasty Melts coming next week! 11:30-1:00
Hi Zanker N Montague,
Are you the organizer of these trucks?? If so, please contact me at nancy@omininjasj.com. We’d love to be involved
That’s great news! Note that you have to show ID to get in, but the guards are pretty friendly.
HELLO! San Jose is launching it’s first Vietnamese gourmet food truck next Monday! I invite you to come for a complimentary tasting and guess what?? We are VEGETARIAN FRIENDLY
We have a kickin fried tofu spring roll *drool** Just say you’re from SVfoodtrucks blog and that NANCY <– owner, sent you!
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It’s going into the Twitter feed and we’ll be by sometime soon. The first time I try a truck it’s always anonymous, but I’ll come by ASAP!!!
It seems worthy of mention that yesterday I just couldn’t find a truck I wanted to visit so we went to Tofoo Com Chay on Santa Clara because I just really needed some good Veggie Viet food. If you had been up, we would have been there (I try to bring along my carnivorous friend).
See you soon!
You must try the Gorditas truck on Julian and 26th Street. They are open from 6 pm to 11 pm. Wed. through Sun. nights. The sign may say “carnitas”, but everything is vegetarian. I’ve only had the gorditas, but I’m hooked.
Donna – thanks for the heads-up! We’ll get over there ASAP!
There will be a gourmet food truck fair in Pleasanton at the Alameda County Fairgrounds on September 17th from 4PM to 9PM with beer, wine, margaritas, music, and great food trucks like Nom Nom, the Golden Waffle, the lobster ShackMobile, Mayo and Mustard, Pacific Puffs, StreetzEatz, Speedy Panini, Toasty Melts, That’s Sweet and more. http://www.alamedacountyfair.com/
Thanks! We’ll try to be there!