What once was chic and fun is now just a meal without a table. Even the mere idea of tweeting the location of a food truck has been co-opted so many times that it became a plot point in a movie (Jon Favreau’s CHEF). While gourmet mobile eateries could be found all throughout the city starting back before 2010 (in addition to the taco trucks that have been prevalent for decades), nowadays they feel a bit irrelevant. Tracking food trucks all over the city via social media feels like a blast from the past in LA a quaint late night hobby when everyone was still figuring out the power of 140-character missives. Over five years later, the gourmet food truck craze has both exploded and subsided (at least in Los Angeles where it all began) and now, with the opening of Kogi at LAX, a new cycle begins. Back in late 2008, a former hotel chef named Roy Choi launched a taco truck that put a spin on traditional Mexican fillings with Korean flavors.
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