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)

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.

The King of the Streets Moves Indoors

His Korean taco trucks took L.A. by storm. Now Roy Choi is tackling the restaurant business

Wall Street Journal – January 8, 2010 – By Katy McLaughlin

Chef Roy Choi is standing in front of the restaurant space he closed on a day ago. It’s a 10-table, bare-bones dive, with the previous operators’ pen-drawn signs for $4.95 entrees hanging in the windows in a small West Los Angeles strip mall. Mr. Choi says he plans to open in late February. He and his partners have decided not to redecorate.

“Come back here in May,” he says. “There will be pandemonium in this parking lot. Cars backed up 20 deep.”

From any other chef, the prediction would seem ludicrous. But Roy Choi has achieved unlikely success before: He turned “Korean tacos,” served from a truck, into one of the most talked-about food trends of last year. Now, the 39-year-old, Tupac Shakur-quoting chef is aiming to prove that his street-food success was no fluke and that his unique culinary persona—part flavor-fusion visionary, part classically trained chef, part street rebel—can change the future of food. Read the full article HERE

ECONOMIST.COM – More Intelligent Life

In these lean times, few have the capital to open a brick and mortar restaurant. Crafty chefs and entrepreneurs are turning trucks into kitchens and hitting the road in some American cities. Jessica Machado investigates …

Ah, the California Dream. Girls in short shorts, sunny afternoons in Venice Beach, drives down the Hollywood Walk of Fame. A cheesy truffle burger named “the cougar.”

The ladies behind Baby’s Badass Burgers in Los Angeles are living the young entrepreneurs’ fantasy: a cheap start-up (under $15,000), a hip theme (hot chicks serving meat) and a lucrative trend that’s only gaining momentum (mobile food).  Read the full Article HERE

Chef Choi and his Kogi Korean-BBQ taco truck: gourmet dining at recession-proof prices via Twitter alerts.

TIME MAGAZINE – California, you may have heard, is an apocalyptic mess of raging wildfires, soaring unemployment, mass foreclosures and political paralysis. It’s dysfunctional. It’s ungovernable. Its bond rating is barely above junk. It’s so broke, it had to hand out IOUs while its leaders debated how many prisoners to release and parks to close. Nevada aired ads mocking California’s business climate to lure its entrepreneurs. The media portray California as a noir fantasyland of overcrowded schools, perpetual droughts, celebrity breakdowns, illegal immigration, hellish congestion and general malaise, captured in headlines like “Meltdown on the Ocean” and “California’s Wipeout Economy” and “Will California Become America’s First Failed State?” Actually, it won’t.   -Read full article at TIME.COM