With 24/7 real-time tracking of the best Gourmet Food Trucks in Los Angeles, the Road Stoves GPS App is now available on all Android mobile phones. It has additional upgrades from its Apple counterpart, including Facebook and Twitter “sharing” capabilities. Please let us know your feedback on the app, or any comments in general on products or services you would like us to provide. We thank you for your support.  (Click HERE for the Android Road Stoves GPS App)

The People of the Book (finally) become the People of the Truck when Takosher (Twitter: @takosher), the nation’s first kosher taco truck soft-launches on Monday, serving tacos brisket, latke, and more traditional tacos.

T.G.I.N.F. because the Takosher Truck, like the John Goodman character in “The Big Lebowski,” doesn’t roll on Shabbos. It does, however, serve lunch on Fridays and re-opens late on Saturday nights to sate the club-hopping buccaneers of Pico-Robertson.

The Takosher Truck is certified Glatt kosher, considered the most stringent level of kosher, by Three Line K, one of many kosher-certification agencies — and the only one willing to work with Takosher.

Just as Kogi, once upon a time, created the template for nouveau food trucks, Takosher’s founders spent a year-and-a-half doggedly working to develop a “kosher program.”   Read the full article HERE

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.

Like the number of trucks did. Click here for Urban Daddy Click here for the Road Stoves GPS App

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.

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

Rob Takata Chris and Regine Patterson stand in front of their truck, Reggae Chicken.

On Saturday afternoon, while 26 of Los Angeles’ nouveau food trucks converged at the T Lofts in West L.A. for a Haiti benefit, husband-and-wife duo Regine and Chris Patterson were putting the final touches on their Jamaican-American fusion truck, Reggae Chicken, which is scheduled to roll out today. Read full article here

JOSH HILLER AND MORRIS APPEL

Partners, RoadStoves, L.A.

What’s watchworthy? Without them, there might not be a Kogi Taco Truck.

Little more than a year ago, you would probably scoff at the idea that two guys selling Korean tacos prepared inside a roving truck would launch one of the hottest food trends of the year. But Kogi, thanks to a company called RoadStoves, changed all that.

Hiller (the tall guy, below) and Appel (in the shorts, next to dad Herman) helped Kogi Korean BBQ founder Mark Manguera get moving by renting him a truck to could bring his food to the tweeting masses.

Kogi caught on quickly not just for its taste, but for the vehicles and the use of social media to promote their locations. The trucks and the promotions created a buzz and a receptive audience almost from Day 1. Read the full article HERE