Recap of the 5th Annual LA Street Food Fest

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One of my favorite annual events is the LA Street Food Fest. It’s an open air event held annually at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena featuring many of LA’s most popular culinary offerings in one location.

For this year’s festival, nearly a hundred food and beverage vendors were on hand to provide sample offerings. As you would expect, quite a number of gourmet food trucks attended as well. The reason I like this event so much is because there are a number of pop-up vendors too.  We also spotting a few South Bay restaurants including ROK Sushi and Doma Kitchen.

Here’s a gallery what my wife and I sampled as well as some highlights from the event:

Aguachiles from Coni Seafood
Aguachiles from Coni Seafood
Delicious ceviche from Coni Seafood
Ceviche from Coni Seafood
Pulled pork tacos at Dia de los Puercos
Pulled pork tacos from Dia de los Puercos
The line at Street Foods Co
The line at Street Foods Co
Applying the chipotle creams sauce to the blue crab quesadillas
Applying the cream sauce to the tempura fish tacos
Tempura fish taco & blue crab quesadilla
Tempura fish taco & blue crab quesadilla
Octavio and Shannon Olivas were on hand to serve Peruvian scallops with Santa Barbara uni on the half shell
Octavio and Shannon Olivas were on hand to serve ceviche
Peruvian scallops with Santa Barbara uni on the half shell
Peruvian scallops with Santa Barbara uni on the half shell
Mariscos el Mazateño serving up crunchy octopus & spicy shrimp tacos
Mariscos el Mazateño serving up crunchy octopus & spicy shrimp tacos
El Condor's tinga tostadas
El Condor’s tinga tostadas
Angel City Brewer served their pisner and IPA.
Angel City Brewery served their pilsner and IPA offerings
Rok Sushi chef proud of his hand roll
Rok Sushi chef proud of his hand roll
Baked crab hand roll from Rok Sushi
Baked crab hand roll from Rok Sushi
Top Chef, Brian Huskey served Korean brisket tortas
Top Chef, Brian Huskey served Korean brisket tortas
Tomo from Luckdish Curry
Tomo from Luckdish Curry was on a break before starting up again at 6pm.
Chef Kristina Miksyte and co-owner Angie Corrente of Doma Kitchen
Chef Kristina Miksyte and co-owner Angie Corrente of Doma Kitchen
Two of Doma Kitchen's signature items: kale & quinoa salad and simmered plov
Two of Doma Kitchen’s signature items: kale salad and simmered plov
Badmaash's chicken tikka marsala
Badmaash’s chicken tikka marsala
Del Rey artisan muffaletta
Del Rey artisan muffaletta
Short Orders Pulled pork with slaw
Short Order’s Pulled pork with slaw
Brand new truck - Roadhouse Rotisserie
Brand new truck – Roadhouse Rotisserie
Chickens roasting inside the Roadhouse Rotisserie food truck
Chickens roasting inside the Roadhouse Rotisserie food truck
In August, Portland based Salt and Straw will be opening an ice cream shop in Larchmont.
In August, Portland based Salt and Straw will open an ice cream shop in Larchmont.
Vanilla ice cream with sea salt and caramel
Vanilla ice cream with sea salt and caramel
Saffron and Rose was on hand to serve Persian style ice cream
Saffron and Rose was on hand to serve Persian style ice cream
Poppyseed, chew seed, wheat noodles, sour cherry with lemon juice
Poppyseed, chew seed, wheat noodles, sour cherry with lemon juice

What were my favorites?  I enjoyed many of the items that I sampled.  Two standouts for me was the Peruvian ceviche from the Ceviche Project and the ice cream from Salt and Straw.

A notable absence from this line-up of goodness is the churro borough. I didn’t have enough patience to wait through that line.  Here’s an image of last year’s churro borough.

Churro Borough
Churro Borough

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