Off The Grid @ The Presidio
Off The Grid organises weekly street food markets or truck stops in and around the Bay Area, San Francisco.
We had been in SF overnight and on our journey back we made a whistle stop to check it all out at the weekly Picnic @ the Presidio, though this was the last one at this site for this year.
We hadn’t long eaten so we had a mooch around checking out the traders and which ones we will follow and track down to try out over the next couple of months.
What a fantastic venue The Presidio is, even on a not so sunny day, the views you get of the bay are outstanding as you devour mouthwatering food. Plus right in the middle is a bar with bar stools where you can order pitchers of Bloody Mary’s, beers and other ‘hairs of the dog’ to cure those inevitable weekend hangovers.
We did find enough room though to have the delicious mushroom, caramalised onion, ‘English peas’ & curd cheese poutine from Fins on the Hoof
Poutine originates from Canada and is generally made with french fries or chips to us Brits and then smothered in a gravy (beef, chicken or veggie) and cheese curds. See, those from ‘up north’ have been way ahead of their game with their chips & gravy that us southerners would more often than not turn their noses up at.
There were about twenty traders, some serving from their trucks and some from purpose built stands. There was a huge variety of traders including Crème brûlée from The Crème brûlée Cart to po boys from The Whole Beast.
One very impressive truck that we spotted was the Del Popolo feeding a hungry crowd from their converted shipping container on the back of a flat bed truck. Two levels inside which included their woodfired oven.
Off the Grid are also behind some of the ‘pods’ in the area that are regular spots from 1-4 food trucks. We plan to mosey on down to Redwood City to check out the one there…we’ll even try the food for you!
