Le Truc = Le Awesome

Bonjour! Today's review chronicles the fortuitously fabulous discovery that was made while getting lost on the way to the guitar store. Behold, the ultimate movable feast: Le Truc.

Being perhaps mildly pretentious self-proclaimed aficionados of all aliments on wheels in SF, we were surprised to have stumbled upon this never-before seen establishment parked west of the South Park area of SOMA. Initially lured by its long line and too-cool-for-school bus-like digs, we creepily began skulking about the grounds and inspecting the menu. Their delicious comfort food offerings quickly won us over: we decided it was worth returning (but *after* visiting the guitar store, so we wouldn't have to stand in line with the people who had just watched us awkwardly take pictures ourselves next to the menu). Having already excitedly set our tummies' hearts on the delicious, indulgent and previously blogged about American Grilled Cheese Kitchen, this was no easy feat!

Ultimately, a good call. The line was significantly shorter 30 minutes later. We ordered the portabello mushroom sandwich, the panko chicken 2.0, and the kale caesar salad. After some waiting (hey, slow food don't come fast) and much anticipation, we received our food and scurried back to the office.

...within 10 minutes all food was sufficiently scarfed down and supremely enjoyed.

Pros: A menu laden with delicious selection options and copious bleu-cheese inspired puns, also open for breakfast and all Giants games, available bookings for private parties (we can only hope to have an event that needs catering soon), friendly staff that wasn't creeped out by our lurking. Additional pro: Planning to serve dinner nightly around the corner from Caitlyn's house.

Cons: Not immediately around the corner from our office.

A photo of the most excellently unorthodox indoor-seating area!

AND, they claim to be posting recipes on their website soon! Caitlyn is pretty sure that once they show up in her neighborhood nightly for dinner she'll say goodbye to cooking altogether, but it's nice to have something to fall back on.

Viva Le Truc!

Ron Burgundy gives it one backwards high five (the Thursday afternoon equivalent of three thumbs up)

Sushirrito: "A new way to roll"

After much anticipation, 40+ minutes of anxious line-waiting and one sheepish and overeager unresponded-to email later, Impact Carbon is pleased to finally present a review of an innovative twist on two San Francisco classics: the Sushirrito.

The sushirrito, or "Sushi Burrito", is exactly what it sounds like: a giant sushi roll, shaped to look like a burrito. Yeah, we're upset we didn't think of it first, too. While some burrito purists may claim that this can't technically be called a burrito (there's not much overlap aside from the rice and log-like shape), we're not terribly concerned. The sushi is fresh, the combinations are new and exciting, and the novelty of taking sushi to the face with two hands instead of dainty chopsticks is more than appealing, it's downright exciting. While the $9.50 price tag may run a bit higher than your average lunchtime sandwich, it's less expensive than your average sushi roll and more filling.

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After:

Their menu, which is almost certain to change periodically, offers a variety of pescatarian, vegetarian and carnivorian options (smoked chicken in chipotle sauce? plantains? yes please!) We ordered the Three Amigos and the Latin Ninja today, but we can't wait to try the other combos. The addition of rice chips and carrot-ginger salsa rounds it out to complete the faux-rrito experience. We can't wait to see what else they come up with (and we hope that the line outside dies down once the newcomer novelty wears off and the chefs figure out how to roll more quickly) - we just hope that they figure out that a side of wasabi and soy sauce would be greatly appreciated!

Next stop, JapaCurry!

Evan. please comment

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the classic grilled cheese, with a twist

Today marks the inaugural visit of the Impact Carbon office to the American Grilled Cheese Kitchen, though it will surely not be the last. After a leisurely jaunt to South Park, we were greeted by interlinked spatulas separating the outdoor seating area from the sidewalk. Inside, there was already a line out the door of hungry office workers craving some comfort food.

For $10, there was a good-sized grilled cheese of your choice (mine was mushroom gruyere, yum!), a side salad or cup of tomato soup, some buttery crouton toppings, and a little orange. Not bad, not bad. There were also yummy drinks like homemade soda (vanilla ginger and grapefruit pink peppercorn) to quench your thirst.

4 hearty thumbs up (me + Matt).

Free Salami Dishes - vomtastic

Free Salami Cheesecake till Friday

There is a restaurant with FREE FOOD open right now just off of 2nd street between Mission and Howard in the building where John Collins used to be. 

How is this possible?

The most disgusting marketing campaign ever.

Gallo Salami, a company that has trained its marketers who serve the food to say "We know you have a selection when it comes to salami and we appreciate you choosing Gallo" has opened Gallo Tratoria 1910 to serve free salami dishes to the masses. There was way too much excitement about salami. The food is free and plentiful, and there was too much Salami in the panini but it wasn't bad. The birch beer was a nice touch. The salami cheesecake (we are not joking) has us about one light pat on the stomach away from vomiting.

Imagine for a second that you put a tasty cheesecake into your fridge on a friday. Then your roommate puts an open can of catfood right next to it and top falls off. Then someone looking for something on Saturday pushes stuff around in the fridge and some of the cheesecake lands in the cat food container. You come back from a long weekend on the East Coast on Monday, check your cheesecake, see the catfood, and morbidly decide to taste the cat food cheesecake.

That is what you can now taste for free on Natoma st, just East of 2nd St between Howard and Mission. Just drop by, sign up for the waitlist (you will easily get a table within 20 mins since the word of the salami cheesecake is getting out), and you too can try this out.

For sheer novelty of her discovery, our consultant Cindy was awarded a food discovery point, despite the frightening nature of the food. 

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