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While cities around the country are embracing mobile food vendors, Oakland still treats most of them as scofflaws.

Looks like Bites Off Broadway was back on forFriday night.

There’s been another glitch for Bites Off Broadway, the weekly Friday night street-food pod in Temescal.

Mobile vendors Toasty Melts, Liba Falafel, and a few more as yet unconfirmed will roll up to Mission High Saturday to sell good-for-you bites incorporating seasonal produce, a fundraiser for the school's Eat UR Veggies nutrition education program.

The An family, owners of Crustacean and Thanh Long, rolled out a truck of their own at last week's Off the Grid Upper Haight

"It's available for anybody demo-ing an idea," Cohen says, "maybe chefs who are thinking about opening a restaurant, or who are interested in trying out some street-food ideas."

Thomas Thong, who's cooked at the Slanted Door and worked briefly as sous chef at Heaven's Dog, is teaming up with Alembic bartender Danny Louie to launch TomKat, an Asian food truck.

185 Berry has been hosting daily food-truck minipods (JapaCurry, Senor Sisig, Little Green Cyclo, Brass Knuckle, and more) since Specialty's departed. They'll disappear once Focaccia starts selling, says Richard Hayes, vice president of leasing for McCarthy Cook, the company that manages China Basin.

A pioneer of the Emeryville food cart scene is heading for the exit. Jon Kosorek says Saturday is the last night for Jon's Street Eats, a cart that since August 2009 has served up Kosorek's brand of New American street food.

Today's Wednesday, the day JapaCurry has a permit to park on Mission at New Montgomery.