While the food-truck trend means great meals on the go, tracking down the actual vehicles can be difficult. Enter RoadStoves, which gives you an up-to-the-minute list of the nearest gourmet food trucks—along with directions to wherever they happen to be located.  (Read the full article Here)

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Truck Yourself: How to Find Your Lunch

The problem with food trucks is that they’re so… mobile. And sometimes your stomach doesn’t want to wait for you to slog through pages of Twitter, only to find out Kogi’s heading to Santa Clarity. 

So, we’d like to present the most important culinary invention since… the food truck. Introducing the RoadStoves GPS app, now available.

Basically, this long-overdue device doesn’t rely on (or wait for) Twitter updates from driver-chefs as they careen down Wilshire in a haze of burger smoke.

All you have to do is pull up the app, then select “Near Me,” and you’ll see the list of trucks within a few miles of you, in real time—thanks to the magic of, yes, GPS, which pulls location info from participating trucks every couple of minutes, whether or not there’s been any tweeting. Select the nearby truck that strikes your fancy, and you can easily grab driving directions, the menu and, if you want, their Twitter feed.

A couple caveats. The thing just launched, and it’s only got RoadStoves trucks—Kogi, Baby’s Badass Burgers, the Grilled Cheese Truck—for now, 21 total. But you can expect that number to rise very quickly.

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ESPN Launches Match Trucks With Food From Chef Roy Choi

ESPN Match Truck

The 2010 FIFA World Cup is just around the corner and ESPN has geared up to launch ESPN Match Trucks, basically uber food trucks (in LA and NYC) with high definition, LCD video screens to broadcast the World Cup matches. Read full article here.

Here Comes Another Taco Truck: Free Tacos That Taste of Tequila + A Recipe

Camarena Truck

Ho hum, another taco truck is rolling out. But wait until you hear what this one has to offer — free tacos and taco fillings that are laced with tequila. The truck will travel all over Los Angeles and environs, starting with a launch in Glendale today, June 1st. During the next two months it will make 120 stops, at least one of which may be in your neighborhood.  Read full article here.

Bottega Louie Chef Chris Goossen Rolls Out Knock Out Taco Truck

Knock Out Taco truck chef and owner Chris Goossen stands with his servers in front of his truck.

Road Stoves, the company that ignited L.A.’s nouveau food truck scene, is hoping that its second taco truck concept does as well as its first (you may know it as Kogi). After two weeks of informal previews, Knock Out Tacos (Twitter: @kotacotruck) helmed by former Bottega Louie chef Chris Goossen, makes its formal debut tonight at First Fridays in Venice.  Read full article here.

No Reservations Catering Debuts

No Reservations Catering Truck

Anthony Bourdain is due in town in about two weeks, let’s hope that doesn’t mean copyright problems for No Reservations Catering, a new Middle Eastern-influenced food truck that rolled onto Abbot-Kinney this past weekend. NRC serves a small menu of six wraps named after movie titles, including “The Green Mile” of roasted veggies served in a boule roll for vegetarians, “Rosemary’s Baby” with rosemary chicken, smoked gouda and Israeli cous cous, and “Silence of the Lambs” with a marinated, roasted leg of lamb and pomegranate red wine sauce in a wrap. What else?  Read full article here

Comfort Truck – Food Truck of the Week

It was hip hop icon Mary J. Blige who first described chef Brian Hills‘ golden fried tortilla chip as  “crack chips.” And the name has stuck. In fact, it’s his signature dish – though goodness knows, he offers enough other addictive dishes for this to be the “Crack Truck” instead of the “Comfort Truck” – though the legal problems with that possible name are legion.

Since arriving in Los Angeles from Washington, DC, chef Brian has worked as a personal chef for Mary J., along with Eddie Murphy and Mariah Carey – a career arc that led to a starring role on the Food Network show The Private Chefs of Beverly Hills.   (Read the full ZAGAT article HERE)

Road Stoves GPS App Available Now

Finally, a reliable food truck locator. Using true GPS technology, the Road Stoves GPS App provides real time locations of all your favorite food trucks. Kogi, Grilled Cheese, Nom Nom, Baby’s Bad*ss Burgers, South Philly Experience, and many more are tracked with exact location data. Plus, you can see all of their twitter feeds in the app under each truck profile. All the trucks, all the info you want, all in one place. We even have their menu items listed in their app profiles so you can see what they’re serving each day.

Please stay tuned for free prizes available through the App. We have an iPad, concert tickets, and cash give-aways coming soon…  Click Here to see the App

Dumpling Station Food Truck Launches

Helen Pan and Chris Aragon stand in front of their baby, the Dumpling Station food truck, which offers Taiwanese dumplings.

The truck’s menu begins in Taiwan and radiates outward to incorporate Korean and American comfort food. Based on recipes that Pan learned to cook from her parents, Dumpling Station (Twitter: @dumplingstation) serves five kinds of dumplings, either fried or steamed (your choice): traditional pork and leek, traditional chicken and green onion, veggie (made with carrots, bean sprouts, glass noodles, water chestnut, Napa cabbage, green onions and garlic), kimchi pork, and kimchi beef. Read full article here