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2012 Awards: Sauce Magazine & Riverfront Times
Thanks to our awesome fans 2012 was a great success! Readers of Sauce Magazine as one of your favorites in two categories and Riverfront Times for the readers choice as favorite food truck. Lets make 2013 even better! Don't forget to vote us for this poll as well which ends on the 1/24. http://www.stlmag.com/St-Louis-Magazine/A-List-Readers-Choice-Poll-2013/
101 Best Food Trucks in America 2012
SOURCE: THE DAILY MEAL
"Once the purview of immigrant cooks, food trucks are now often art-designed and run by culinary school grads, celebrity chefs, and even aspiring stars with no culinary cred. Their quirky names pun on sexual innuendo, they serve food (often fusion) to go, they’ve lowered the financial bar for becoming a restaurateur, and have helped make the everyman and woman, critics...."
SEE THE FULL ARTICLE AND TOP 101 LIST HERE!
The Eater St. Louis Heatmap: Where to Eat Right Now
Source: The Eater St. Louis
Tuesday, November 6, 2012, by Gabe Ulla
The city's most celebrated chef, Gerard Craft, at Pastaria [Pastaria]
Today we return to St. Louis, Missouri and focus on seven of its hottest restaurants. This comes over a year since the last Heatmap to the city. As was the case with that post, Riverfront Times critic Ian Froeb has also made the selections for the 2012 edition. In these openings Froeb sees "a broadening of ambition and an improved optimism about the economy." That means "more high-profile openings," as well as the rise of the tasting menu trend. Among the selections is Gerard Craft's casual but excellent Italian concept (Pastaria), the progressive restaurant Little Country Gentlemen, a members-only cocktail bar and restaurant (Blood & Sand), and the brick-and-mortar location of an extremely popular food truck (Seoul Taco). Many thanks, also, to the Ulterior Epicure for his intel.
Food Trucks Are Still on a Roll!
July 29, 2012 12:25 am • BY GEORGINA GUSTIN • ggustin@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8195
Photo by Laurie Skrivan, lskrivan@post-dispatch.comThey've coped with a record-making heat wave. They've tangled with restaurants, politicians and cranky corporate cafeterias, all the while jockeying for prime vending spaces.
Yet, despite the challenges and some attrition in recent months, the area's food trucks keep riding their self-propelled trend — and, in some cases, are proving to be strategic business tools.
Over the past week, bits of news sent ripples through the food truck streetscape. Growing pizza mini-empire Pi Pizzeria announced it was closing its St. Louis and Washington-based food trucks, while Seoul Taco — a phenomenally popular truck that just launched last year — said it would open a bricks-and-mortar restaurant in the Delmar Loop.
For Seoul Taco, run by two 27-year-olds, the truck was a launching pad — a low-capital way to jump into the restaurant business.
“We feel more confident opening a restaurant now,” said David Choi, co-owner. “Our brand is out there; it's a recognized name. If we started as a restaurant, there's a lot more overhead.”
Seoul Taco Visits With Food Talk STL on 590 the Fan
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