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• Keep on Truckin' ... With Lists!

  Green Truck on the Go Photo: courtesy of the truck With so many food trucks using Twitter these days, keeping track of all those tweets can make your head spin. But by utilizing Twitter's new lists feature, we've made the truckin' life a little Read More... Posted Monday, November 02, 2009 2:36 PM by BuzzEditor | 0 Comments Filed under: Trend Watch

• Food Truck of the Week: Flying Pig Truck

  Flying Pig Truck logo Photo: courtesy of the truck The truck is a shade of pink worthy of local billboard icon Angelyne, with a graphic of a happy, seraphic-winged porker sailing through the clouds on the side. The owners are "Cordon Bleu dreamers" Read More... Posted Thursday, October 29, 2009 3:33 PM by BuzzEditor | 0 Comments Filed under: Trend Watch

• Food Truck of the Week: Border Grill Truck

  Border Grill Truck Photo: courtesy of the truck It was inevitable that the Too Hot Tamales – Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken – would hop on the food-truck bandwagon. Their Border Grill Truck serves the modern Mexican/Pan-Latino cooking Read More... Posted Thursday, October 22, 2009 3:21 PM by BuzzEditor | 0 Comments Filed under: Trend Watch

• Food Truck of the Week: Skewers on Wheels

  Skewers on Wheels logo Photo: courtesy of the truck When you get down to it, skewers are about as food truck–friendly as food can be. They can be made in massive quantities and cooked quickly and easily. Nor is serving them labor intensive – Read More... Posted Friday, October 16, 2009 5:39 PM by BuzzEditor | 0 Comments Filed under: Trend Watch

• Food Truck of the Week: India Jones Chow Truck

  Sumant Pardal in front of India Jones Chow Truck Photo: courtesy of the truck When you consider that the streets of India are packed – jammed! – with food carts selling dozens of fast food items, the appearance of a food truck specializing Read More... Posted Thursday, October 08, 2009 4:04 PM by BuzzEditor | 0 Comments Filed under: Trend Watch

• Food Truck of the Week: The Gastro Bus

  The Gastro Bus logo Photo: courtesy the truck The closest that rolling gastropub The Gastro Bus comes to beer is its root beer float. Otherwise, it's BYOB for fans of this farmer's market driven food truck. Created by caterer Antonio Medina and Read More... Posted Friday, October 02, 2009 1:53 PM by BuzzEditor | 0 Comments Filed under: Trend Watch

• Food Truck of the Week: South Philly Experience

  South Philly Experience Photo: courtesy of the truck As our population of food trucks continues to grow, it seems as if every regional dish and cult object of culinary desire will have a rolling outlet of its own. The latest to hit the streets is the Read More... Posted Thursday, September 24, 2009 3:56 PM by BuzzEditor | 0 Comments Filed under: Trend Watch

• Food Truck of the Week: The Grilled Cheese Truck

  Photo: courtesy of the Grilled Cheese Truck As of this writing, The Grilled Cheese Truck hasn't yet hit the streets. But the blogosphere's food-truck obsessives have been going into a gooey meltdown anticipating the arrival of…melted cheese…on Read More... Posted Thursday, September 17, 2009 5:44 PM by BuzzEditor | 0 Comments Filed under: Trend Watch

• Food Truck of the Week: Green Truck

  Green Truck on the Go Photo: courtesy of the truck Yes, we know that the notion of an ecologically conscious catering truck seems a bit... oxymoronic. But the service called Green Truck on the Go has managed it thanks to its solar powered commissary (with Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 02, 2009 6:12 PM by BuzzEditor | 0 Comments Filed under: Trend Watch

• Food Truck of the Week: Fishlips

  Fishlips Truck Photo: courtesy of Fishlips When I mentioned to my wife – a cautious woman who's a big part of Purell's burgeoning bottom line – that there was a sushi roll truck plying its trade on the summer-hot streets of Los Angeles, Read More... Posted Thursday, August 27, 2009 5:25 PM by BuzzEditor | 0 Comments Filed under: Trend Watch

• Food Truck of the Week: Coolhaus

  Coolhaus Image: courtesy of Coolhaus For those of us who grew up waiting for tanklike refrigerated trucks selling Bungalow Bars and Good Humor Bars (and, later, Carvel and Mister Softee), the Coolhaus truck is proof that everything comes full circle. Read More... Posted Thursday, August 20, 2009 1:34 PM by BuzzEditor | 0 Comments Filed under: Trend Watch

• Food Truck of the Week: Baby's Badass Burgers

  Baby's Badass Burgers Photo: courtesy of the truck Just as the Fro-yo Fad began to fade away, along came another (perhaps even more maniacal) culinary trend. Los Angeles is now a landscape covered with what can only be described as upscale roach coaches. Read More... Posted Friday, August 14, 2009 4:08 PM by BuzzEditor | 0 Comments Filed under: Trend Watch

• Matzo Balls and Baseball

  Like most Dodger fans, I go to the games to cheer on the Boys in Blue, to check out the celebrity quotient ("Look! It's Hef and the girls!") and to eat a Dodger Dog. Indeed, like most Dodger fans, it's the Dodger Dog that comes first Read More... Posted Friday, April 11, 2008 6:20 PM by BuzzEditor | 0 Comments Filed under: Trend Watch

• Where the Actors Are the Owners (Not Just the Waiters)

  Have you been to a celebrity-owned restaurant? Are they worth the hype? Share your thoughts on the Zagat Discussion boards! With the writers' strike finally over and the Academy Awards just around the corner on February 24th, most of Hollywood is Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 19, 2008 6:55 PM by BuzzEditor | 0 Comments Filed under: Trend Watch

• Trend Watch: Coffee Wakes Up Cuisine

  Some LA chefs must think that diners need to wake up, because lately it seems that coffee has been showing up as a key ingredient. At the newly opened LAMILL Coffee Boutique in Silver Lake, chef Michael Cimarusti has come up with the notion of a frisee Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 05, 2008 1:19 PM by BuzzEditor | 0 Comments Filed under: Trend Watch