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• Thu, 16:34: @curryupnow will you be at offthegrid tonight in the upper Haight?

Curry Up Now is an indian restaurant operating out of 7 mobile trucks in San Francisco. The menu cycles depending upon what they want to make, and the locations change frequently.

Food trucks are undergoing a sort of rennaisance, as young chefs with chips on their shoulders are foregoing the hassle of running a brick-and-mortar restaurant for the fast-and-easy payoff-under-the-table world of street food. The resulting trucks are multiplying at an alarming rate, and the quality (and the price!) is getting higher. Food trucks also make it much easier to capitalize on a "flash in the pan" trend like say, designer cupcakes, creampuffs, macaroons, etc, than building a whole bakery around the concept would be.

Anyhow, I was tweeting "Curry Up Now" in hopes that they would reply and tell me if they would be at off the grid, which is a weekly phenomenon in San Francisco where a rotating set of food trucks set up in a parking lot and serve to the neighborhood in a sort of mini-festival. In the upper Haight, this happens on Thursday evening from 5 till around 9.

The curry truck didn't answer, which is sad, because isn't this what twitter would be good for? Anyhow, they were there and we got a couple of Tikka Masala Burritos and a "Deconstructed Samosa" which if you are familiar with the street food of northern india, was a Samosa Chaat with a fancy name. The burritos were OK... But the Chaat was completely awesome, and what I will probably order again, since it was cheaper, a ton of food, and not so heavy as the burrito.