Tag: food revolution

It only took about 18 months but the Chronicle’s junior arts columnist Lisa Gray finally got around to mentioning the problems with the City of Houston regulations for mobile food vendors.

And more than just a food truck slinging tacos, it's actually a "mobile teaching kitchen." It's designed to "create an immediate, unexpected spectacle" at schools, street fairs, and farmers markets in that it can "push out laterally for events" making room for both an "expo kitchen" and eight separate cooking stations.

The Re-Up BBQ is part of Vancouver's wonderful street food revolution and serves traditional Southern BBQ from a mobile trailer transformed into a kitchen on wheels.

An established "CLEAR ZONE" prohibits the sale of food visible from any public street, public property or sidewalk, except by brick and mortar restaurants. That means no go for food trucks. And the ordinance cites “good order and aesthetic quality” as the reason why.

Will Oliver's mobile kitchen challenge Kogi BBQ as the city's favorite food truck?