Tacos

After the success of October’s taco truck tour, it’s time for another! Taco Truck Tour Numéro Dos: When: Sunday, November 22, 2009 Meet: 12:30 pm, Lake Merritt BART station (9th and Oak St., Oakland). Start: ~ 12:45 pm End: ~ 3:30 pm ish, Fruitvale BART station Twitter: @catacotrucks / #tacotrucktour Itinerary (follow along at Oakland Taco Truck Map 2007) 1) Tacos Alonzo at Foothill Blvd./27th Ave. 2) Tacos El Mazatlan at Foothill Blvd./Fruitvale Ave. 3) Tamales Mi Lupita at Foothill…

Owners of lunch trucks blast parking time limit: A county ordinance targeting food vending trucks took some heat Tuesday when a couple dozen truck owners and their lawyer came to the Board of Supervisors meeting to oppose it. The supervisors had given the ordinance tentative approval last week. But after the vendors’ protested Tuesday, the supervisors put off a final vote, which now could take place next week. One vender vowed to sue the county unless changes are made to…

Starving Student: The cultural significance of taco trucks: It is not a secret that the highest-income earners in Chico are white people. So let’s go ahead and stop trying to pretend I’m being racist. Everyone is racist. And every journalist is biased. If you do not agree with the previous two statements, you probably understand the world much differently than I do, and will find this column at least partially offensive. Therefore, people who stick their nose up at taco…

January 24 2008 Tacos Garcia Soscol St. at McKinstry Napa, CA Note: Advertised “Burrito Diablo de Camarón $8.50” Tacos Dos Hermanos Sonoma St at Soreno St. Vallejo, CA Tacos Jalisco Texas St. at Broadway Vallejo, CA Note: “Tacos de Birria” La Perla de Jalisco 1 block north of Kentucky St. at Alameda Vallejo, CA

I finally finished uploading photos from my two most recent solo crawls. March 1 2008 Tacos Panzon Campbell and Grand Ave. Oakland, CA Tacos Toñito Herman and Huntington Ave. (Under I-380 overpass) San Bruno, CA Tacos El Ranchito El Camino Real at Jenevin Ave. (Across from the Fire Station) San Bruno, CA Tacos El Ranchito #2 El Camino Real at Center St. (near McDonald’s) Millbrae, CA La Conchita El Camino Real and Hillcrest Ave. Millbrae, CA Note: Pastor was *really*…

AP: By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 6:14 p.m. ET FONTANA, Calif. (AP) — A hunger for carnitas nearly led to some carnage after a Fontana man was robbed of a bag of tacos at gunpoint. Police Sergeant Jeff Decker said the 35-year-old victim had just bought about $20 in tacos from a street-corner stand Sunday night and was bicycling home when the suspect confronted him and said ”Give me your tacos.” Decker said the suspect grabbed the bag of…

Taco trucks are once again under threat, this time in Tulare County. This smells of the saga down in Salinas. The Fresno Bee: By Erik Lacayo / The Fresno Bee 12/08/07 22:21:02 TIPTON — Taco trucks across Tulare County could be driven out of business, some vendors fear, because of a proposed ordinance that would regulate where they can sell food. The Tulare County Board of Supervisors is expected to vote Tuesday on the new rules for mobile food vendors…

This photo captures the perfect transitory nature of taco trucks in the night. [via Houstonist]

So on Wednesday, when I drove from Oakland to Santa Monica — a drive that I’ve made since I was a kid easily over 100 times — I decided to spice things up a little bit. I-5, as most people know, is California’s most boring section of highway, and it serves exactly one purpose: getting people from the north to the south and vice versa as fast as possible. However, some research on Chowhound turned up the presence of a…