THE TASTE – Street Eats, Hollywood

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Fabio Viviani, Jet Tila, Marcel Vigneron, Sang Yoon, Kajsa Alger and plenty more were in attendance as fellow chef Susan Feniger hosted THE TASTE's Street Eats party at The Studios at Paramount. Food Trucks and booths lined the streets and it was here that I finally got to try the cheesy goodness of the Grilled Cheese Truck. Perhaps tried is an understatement. I probably consumed like five of them with additional fillings including shredded short rib and macaroni and cheese. Coolhaus sweetened up the celebration with their ice cream sandwiches, along with Créme Caramel LA and their, you guessed it…creamy créme caramels.

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Short Rib Grilled Cheese from The Grilled Cheese Truck

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Everybody wanted a Coolhaus Ice Cream Sandwich

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Créme Caramel LA's creme caramel

Sommelier Jesse Rodriguez (Addison Restaurant, Grand Del Mar) and Michael Shearin (Drago Centro) gave us useful, professional tips in their "Navigating a Wine List" seminar. While in the same tent prior, a panel discussing "Food City: The New Language of L.A." moderated by Betty Hallock drew a packed crowd curious to hear all that chefs Roy Choi (Kogi), Jet Tila (Wazuzu), Sang Yoon (Father's Office) and Mario Alberto (Chimu) had to share.

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Street Eats panel discussion at THE TASTEFood-Fashionista-TheTASTE_Palate 
Palate Food & Wine's Lamb Flatbread

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Mika Takeuchi, Joann Cianciulli, Jet Tila, Sang Yoon, Caryl Chinn

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No shortage of carbs at Street Eats

The Chew hosted a food truck-inspired photo booth, which was deliciously entertaining with snaps getting even more incriminating as the night went on (aka more liquor consumed). A favorite find of Street Eats was Pitfire Artisan Pizza who brought their own wood burning oven to the festival. Their pizza was so good, that I've visited their restaurant in NoHo twice since the event. And to think I was going to detox after this four day culinary extravaganza. Umm, not so much.  

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Marcel Vigneron, Robert Montano, Haru Kishi

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Pitfire's Heirloom Tomato Pizza

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Food truck photo booth shenanigans

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Guelaguetza's Tamales Oaxaquenos w/ black mole & chicken breast in banana leaf

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6 Comments

  1. DeAnna
    09/09/2011 / 6:24 pm

    i love love love your blog!

  2. Michael
    12/09/2011 / 12:32 am

    That photo booth photo is EPIC! Where was I for that.

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