Results tagged “nonstaurant”

In his new column, Chron foodie Michael Bauer sounds more than titillated by the concept of Saison, a new restaurant from partners Joshua Skenes and Mark Bright that is set to begin service one night a week only with a set menu. From the sound of it, after a few sold out weeks they'll likely be serving three nights a week, but this does serve as another example of ingenuity in the face of economically uncertain times in the restaurant biz.

While some of us can't find it in our mercifully elitist hearts to enjoy a taco out of a Toyota, many of you do. Many of you love the food truck, nonstaurant trend. But before this year's mobile artisan trend took off, there was the Boccalone Salumi Cycle. And Eater has word that a "Boccalone Salumi Cycle is about to dawn upon the Financial District" to deliver hot sandwiches to hungry worker bees. Trouble is they want to know where they should set up their beef-injecting services first. According to @boccalone: "Secret Sandwiches coming this Friday lunch via our Salumi cycle. $8 Prosciutto Panino. Which downtown corner should we visit first?" So, let them know.

Lessley Anderson (senior editor at CHOW and our former colleague back in the day) sent us this map denoting the sports where you can find the current "nonstaurant" trend in the Bay Area. It's pretty damn handy for those of you who prefer to get your gastronomic fix from a taco truck.