Comments on: Fruitvale taco truck bike tour with Cyrus (Oct. 25, 2009)

By: Taco Truck Tour #2: Foothill Blvd. Edition (Nov. 22, 2009) | cyrusfarivar.com

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:19:39 +0000

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Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:52:43 +0000

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By: California Taco Trucks » Blog Archive » Taco Truck Tour: “Like Critical Mass, only with less aggression and more tacos!”

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:55:36 +0000

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By: Pirate

Pirate — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:15:05 +0000

An awesome day of tacos & biking (& beer for a few of us!) Abso-tively can’t wait until the next Critical Tacos!

Also, here’s that link about the shrine to the Saint of Narco-Traffickers @ Tacos Sinaloa.

-Pirate

By: Lexica

Lexica — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:22:13 +0000

Hey, Cyrus — Pirate and I just want to say what a great time we had. Tasty food, congenial people, perfect weather, and a fairly smooth ride (hey, it’s Oakland, there’s no such thing as totally smooth pavement). We are SO there for the next one (hint, hint).

By: Napalm

Napalm — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:24:10 +0000

I’m also interested to hear grouchosuave’s picks.. Personally I am a fan of Tacos El Rey out of Berkeley right behind Berkeley Iron Works and Tacos Sinaloa is a great place as well.

By: Cyrus Farivar

Cyrus Farivar — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:07:44 +0000

El Ojo de Agua is sporadically unsanitary and dangerous? Dude, I’ve been going to this truck regularly for years and never once have I found it to be anything of the sort. I don’t go to trucks for ambience. I go for the tasty food. And their burritos are second to none.

What are your favorite locations, praytell?

By: grouchosuave

grouchosuave — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:56:59 +0000

Man.
Longtime ghetto crustacean, Oaklander pedalisto, taco truck dependent, and Fruitvale resident grouchosuave here. Love the truck scene and mi barrio getting their due and I love a beautiful street recital of our pedaling savooir faire, but…. – perhaps I’m too close to the subject – …but I got serious bones to pick with the itinerary and the truck selections.

Certainly not a representation of the highlights available to us – by standards of either being enjoyably crazy or sites of distinct social scenes, or by any standard of appreciating any of the interesting characters working the trucks, and certainly not a sampling of distinct or exceptional camino culinaria.

El Ojo de Agua is sporadically unsanitary and dangerous. Little hand washing goin on there and I and others have learned that the hard way…. plus it ha sall the ambience yiou’d expect of a deafening, carbon monoxide cloud of a parking lot under the BART tracks.

El Nieve is at the epicenter of theBay Area’s filthiest, ugliest hooker stroll – a corner and stretch that specializes in the underaged in addition to the all too common desperate and poverty worn ranks. It ain’t no scene from ‘Belle du Jour’, my friends… plus every nook on the exterior of that bunker block building reeks of long accumulated street piss.

I think I just might instigate a wildcat leg of the tour … take any free souls willing to come-with to a couple of cool spots and gems I hunted out and and have come to depend on.

‘Til then.

By: axe

axe — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:08:14 +0000

This looks amazing! I’m so sad I’ll be out of town. Is there a newsletter i can join? This is so my spring destination…

By: larry mollin

larry mollin — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:54:01 +0000

Hi cyrus — wish i could make this tour but am in socal. are you from santa monica? if so – best to you from me and johnnie mollin. we follow the good trucks here on twitter. will be off in a second to the India Jones truck coming to our town. So far i have fallen in love with LOMO ARIGATO -peruvian-japanese street food and of course kogi.