A farmer’s market is the best place to go if you want to buy your food locally and organically. It’s also a great place to meet and support the farmers who grow the food. Here at Eat To Blog we are proud to announce that we are teaming up with Chef Antonio Medina from The Gastrobus to offer you a guide around farmer’s markets in Los Angeles which we call “The Organic Tour.”

Interested in joining? Want to learn more about it? Then get all the info HERE!

Besides the Buttermilk Truck, another truck I just had to go was the Gastrobus. Yes I have been to the Gastrobus twice (here and here) but well Antonio and Lana are just such great people. I just had to give them a visit and so should everyone! I wanted my whole family to try so I brought them along. Which also mean I would be able to try a lot of the dishes that day heehee.

It was their organic Sunday menu so they were parked at the Los Feliz farmers market at the post office parking lot. Last time I saw Antonio and Lana it was in September so I was glad that they still remembered me when I arrived at the truck. Lana and I chatted a bit before I placed my order. Well I pretty much ordered everything off the menu, like I said I wanted to try them all!

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Is it possible to live in a city for over 20years and practically know nothing about it? How was it possible for me to only recently found out about all these street tacos wonderness in my own backyard (even if the backyard is about an hour drive away)? I guess I know why. I didn’t REALLY get into everything food until I moved to NYC and started this blog. I didn’t REALLY appreciate awesome authentic tacos until I became obsessed with the trucks at Red Hook. And I didn’t REALLY get into the street food scene until this whole street food wave that took over 2009. But then still I wasn’t able to grasp just how many street taco vendors are in Highland Park, Eagle Rock, Boyle Heights and etc… Not until I came upon Dylan Ho’s post about street tacos in LA. And after watching Dan Delaney taco crawling with Dylan, I wanted to go street taco crawling as well and actually pondered about asking Dylan as my tour guide. But decided not to, seem so out of the blue and he probably either ignore my email or say no. Then I thought about, hey I can just write down the locations of all the taco stands he blogged about and have my own little taco tour! And two things really set this tour into stone were Jonathan Gold, from LA Weekly, writing about Antojitos Carmen and Breed Street Scene in Boyle Heights and included their Twitter accounts. The second thing was my friend Sandy wanted to have a street taco tour as well and actually lives near to most of the vendors.

I’ve done many food tours before small and big so I wasn’t expecting any different from this taco tour. It was like okay, let’s go get some tacos. I wasn’t prepare massive this whole thing was and I still don’t. I thought the 2 nights that I went pretty much covered most of the vendors but then on Yelp and a closer look at Dylan’s blog, proved that there were many many more.

Anyways let’s start this frakkin epic journey and I do mean E P I C.

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There were many things on my to-eat list this time around. Compare to my last trip home, which was just an extended weekend, I had to pack a lot of food trucking into 1 day. This time around I had a total of 11 days……11 days of 70 degree LA weather perfect for outdoor dining.

I was looking through buttermilk Truck’s schedule for the week that I was in LA. Seemed like I had to drive a long distance no matter what so I decided to go on Monday because out of the whole week they were parked the closes to me, in downtown LA near Little Tokyo. It was still a good 50min drive without traffic. But on Sunday night I wasn’t sure if I reeeeaally wanted to wake up early for the drive.

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1) Please state your name, name your food truck, the type of food you will be serving and where in LA will the truck make it stops?
Matt: Name: Matthew Chernus. Food Truck Name: Grill ‘ Em All. Type of Food: Awesome burgers, awesome sides of stuff like truffle fries and hand rolled tator tots. Location: Your stomach! HAHAHAHA! Great answer!
Ryan: I am the one they call The Great Tyrant of Gastronome, but you can call me Ryan. We stop only to do the bidding of the hungry masses…which is frequent and all over Los Angeles.

2) When and how did you come up with the idea of serving food in a truck and how did you decide on your menu? Besides the heavy metal theme, what makes your truck unique?
Matt: Truck? We don’t serve food from a truck, that would be too pedestrian. We serve food from our lovely chariot. The food can only be as good as the chamber it comes from and ours is the queen of the ball. The ball of destruction. You ask questions of uniqueness and I answer that all is unique when it comes from the belly of this beast we call hunger.
Ryan: Well, I have been a professional cook for over ten years now and I’ve taken my knowledge of gourmet cuisine and brought it to the most amazing canvas in my mind, burgers. The menu was easy; it’s the twist I have been bringing to backyard barbeques for years now. It’s the warm blanket you throw over yourself on a cold Winter’s night after one to many goblets of grog.

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This is more for me to keep track of all the trucks and carts in NY, Maryland, LA, Bay Area, Portland and Seattle. Hopefully it’ll be useful to somebody too. I have a lot of work to do in LA. Please let me know if I left out any and any trucks I should know about from other cities. So here goes…

New York
El Diablo Tacos Eat to Blog review, Twitter
La Cense Beef Burger Truck Twitter
The Treats Truck Eat to Blog review, Twitter
The Big Gay Ice Cream Truck My reviews here & here, Season End Party, Vendy, Twitter
Street Sweets Eat to Blog review, Twitter
Schnitzel & Things My review, Vendy, Twitter
Cupcake Stop Eat to Blog review, Vendy, Twitter
NYC Cravings Vendy, Twitter
Calexico Twitter
Le Gamin Truck Twitter
Bistro Truck My review, Twitter
Papa Perrone Twitter
Frites’n'Meats Twitter
Hearts Challenger Ice Cream Truck (NYC & LA) Twitter
King of Falafel Vendy
Biryani Cart Vendy
Jamaican Dutchy Vendy
Wafels & Dinges Eat to Blog review, My review, Howard review, Twitter
Red Hook Ball Field Our reviews here, here, here, here, here, and here

Click to see food trucks/carts from Los Angeles, Portland & Seattle