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

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)

Download the Road Stoves GPS App 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

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)

Canter’s Food Truck: Kibitzing in a Neighborhood Near You

Canter’s Deli, an institution known as much for its round-the-clock service and its preserved-in-amber ambiance as for its cuisine, just leapfrogged into the year 2010 with a food truck that hits the streets of Los Angeles — hopefully this week. The Canter’s Deli truck (Twitter:@canterstruck) is the brainchild of Bonnie Bloomgarden, a great-great-granddaughter of Ben Canter, one of the brothers who opened the first L.A. incarnation of Canter’s in Boyle Heights in 1931. Read the full article here

The Jerusalem Post

Chasing the Grilled Cheese Truck – by Faye Levy

Outside of chasing the ice-cream truck, which I loved as much as any child, I never imagined following any food truck. I considered them to be providers of ordinary sandwiches when you couldn’t bring lunch to work. In Los Angeles I always ignored the ubiquitous taco trucks that serve hot Mexican flatbread sandwiches. That is why I was baffled when a foodie friend told me she waited on line for an hour to get a grilled cheese sandwich from a truck, to eat standing up!  Read the full article HERE

Food truck profile: Little Spoon dessert truck rolls across Los Angeles

Elina Shatkin | November 17, 2009 |  7:00 am

Melissa Hanna and Laurel Tincher think they’ve found their sweet spot. Backed by food truck juggernaut Road Stoves, the two college-age entrepreneurs recently launched the Little Spoon dessert truck (Twitter: @weliketospoon), bringing together a wealth of freshly made baked goods from a variety of local vendors. Prior to the current food truck craze, Hanna had spent two years developing a business model for a dessert company that was based on partnering with local bakers and chocolatiers. “We’re not trying to be a cupcake truck,” Hanna says. “That’s already out there.” Click here to read the full article in the L.A. Times

“Moveable Feast” by Saul Gonzalez

Morris Appel (left), Josh Hiller (center) and Herman Appel (right)

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES – These days in Los Angeles, it is virtually impossible to escape the gourmet food truck craze. But one question is usually left unasked amid the appearances of upscale barbecue, ice cream, hot dog, cupcake and other mobile kitchens: Where do they come from?
The answer, at least for many of them, is Road Stoves, a company on Oak Street, near where the 110 and 10 freeways meet. Read full article in Los Angeles Downtown News