<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"><channel><title><![CDATA[toñayense - SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports]]></title><description><![CDATA[SFist is San Francisco's source for fun, witty, & serious news. With updates about restaurants, events, sports, politics & more, SFist reaches millions of users in California.]]></description><link>https://sfist.com/</link><image><url>https://sfist.com/favicon.png</url><title>toñayense - SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, &amp; Sports</title><link>https://sfist.com/</link></image><generator>Ghost 2.12</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:59:23 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://sfist.com/tonayense/rss/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><ttl>60</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Tonayense Troubles?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Our new favorite taco-truck defense blog, <a href="http://burritojustice.wordpress.com/2008/09/23/el-tonayense-taco-truck-schoold/">Burrito Justice</a>, calls our attention to an <a href="http://sf.ea...]]></description><link>https://sfist.com/2008/09/25/tonayense_troubles/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c24270b44ad066cdcf4342d</guid><category><![CDATA[SF Restaurants, Food & Drink]]></category><category><![CDATA[burrito]]></category><category><![CDATA[footloose]]></category><category><![CDATA[harrison]]></category><category><![CDATA[kevinbacon]]></category><category><![CDATA[oconnellhigh]]></category><category><![CDATA[taco]]></category><category><![CDATA[toñayense]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[SFist_Jonathan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:30:14 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2008/12/entry183583_thumb-thumb-640xauto-33067.jpg" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2008/12/entry183583_thumb-thumb-640xauto-33067.jpg" alt="Tonayense Troubles?"><p>Although the <a href="http://sfist.com/2008/08/30/burrito_justice.php">judicial system</a> has stepped in to help the beleaguered taco trucks of Los Angeles County, who will stand up for El Toñayense when the "wellness" of children is supposedly on the line? To us, this just seems like <em><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwBbMXYDsXw">Footloose</a></em> all over again: a small-minded crusade against exuberance and joy.</p>

<p><em>SFWeekly's</em> Meredith Brody recently <a href="http://www.sfweekly.com/2008-07-16/news/san-francisco-street-food-top-ten/2">had this to say</a> about our favorite taco truck: "There are no better tacos, burritos, tortas, and quesadillas available anywhere in the Mission than those served up at one of El Tonayense's three immaculate trucks strung out along Harrison like the pearls they are."</p>

<p>What high school cafeteria can compete with that?</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books and Burritos: A Mobile Match Made in Heaven]]></title><description><![CDATA[We gasped at the sight: the <a href="http://sfpl.lib.ca.us/">San Francisco Public Library's</a> Bookmobile cozying up to our favorite <a href="http://www.sfweekly.com/bestof/award.php?award=563218">El...]]></description><link>https://sfist.com/2008/05/07/books_and_burri/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c2431ff44ad066cdcf9cebd</guid><category><![CDATA[SF Restaurants, Food & Drink]]></category><category><![CDATA[bookmobile]]></category><category><![CDATA[burrito]]></category><category><![CDATA[gratitude]]></category><category><![CDATA[harrison]]></category><category><![CDATA[library]]></category><category><![CDATA[paradise]]></category><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><category><![CDATA[toñayense]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[SFist_Jonathan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 13:23:51 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2009/04/entry160552_thumb-thumb-640xauto-204696.jpg" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2009/04/entry160552_thumb-thumb-640xauto-204696.jpg" alt="Books and Burritos: A Mobile Match Made in Heaven"><p>We gasped at the sight: the <a href="http://sfpl.lib.ca.us/">San Francisco Public Library's</a> Bookmobile cozying up to our favorite <a href="http://www.sfweekly.com/bestof/award.php?award=563218">El Tonayense truck</a> on Harrison near 20th. Now we truly have everything we need. Well, almost. Maybe the folks at <a href="http://www.cafegratitude.com/">Cafe Gratitude</a> will let us us the restroom.</p>

<p>A recent <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-nguyen21apr21,0,3026545.story&lt;br%20/&gt;%0A">Los Angeles Times op-ed</a> called taco trucks "oases of meat and cheer in the night" -- an allusion, perhaps, to those famous early lines of Virgil's <em>Aeneid</em>:<br>
</p><blockquote>The jolly crew, unmindful of the past, <br>
The quarry share, their plenteous dinner haste. <br>
Some strip the skin; some portion out the spoil; <br>
The limbs, yet trembling, in the caldrons boil; <br>
Some on the fire the reeking entrails broil. <br>
Stretch'd on the grassy turf, at ease they dine, <br>
Restore their strength with meat, and cheer their souls with wine.</blockquote>

<p>They don't sell wine at the El Tonayense truck, but maybe you can get a copy of the Aeneid from the bookmobile to cheer your soul while you savor your burrito.</p>

<p><strong>Warning:</strong> do not read this passage from the <em>Aeneid</em> aloud in the vicinity of Cafe Gratitude - it just wouldn't be nice.</p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>