Foodies of Sacramento will be gathering for a fourth SactoMoFo mobile food festival. SactoMoFo 4 will be held from 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. on April 21. There will be more food vendors, more activities, and more space than the previous events. The new location will be at sixth and W streets under the freeway. “We anticipate seeing a lot of smiling people with food-stained faces,” said Paul Somerhausen, managing partner of SactoMoFo. The first SactoMoFo festival was held in April of last year with 20 food vendors and a crowd of over 10,000 people at Fremont park. Whole Foods, SactoMoFo’s original sponser, will be sponsoring this festival. Access to SactoMoFo is free, and the food is pay-as-you

Any decision regarding Sacramento’s controversial food truck ordinance – which currently limits trucks to operating a maximum of 30 minutes in one spot – will have to wait, since a City Council Law and Legislation Committee meeting was canceled Tuesday. “There’s a lot of stuff to look at in state law, and we’re trying to figure that out,” said Councilman Jay Schenirer, chairman of the committee. “A lot of it is whether it’s just legal or not.” One of the legal issues is that California Vehicle Code protections on commercial vehicles can arguably be applied to mobile food vendor operations. Operators of food trucks have been advocating changing the city ordinance for more than a year, sa

Looking for a burger on-the-go, minus the drive-thru window? Mini Burger Truck might be parked right up your alley. Literally. At the end of this month, MBT will begin traveling the central city and surrounding areas, bringing gourmet burgers to various lunchtime locations, despite an inconvenient ordinance. This city ordinance limits mobile food vendors to 30 minutes per location. So in accordance with the legislation, MBT will move at least 400 ft. (about a block) every 30 minutes. “We anticipate being able to serve a good amount of people in that time because we’re targeting to have really fast-paced service times,” said MBT operating partner Davin Vculek. In order to keep customers

Rob Turner, co-editor of Sactown Magazine, wrote what I found to be a truly inspired back page article in the Magazine's sixteen issue. So aptly titled "Meals on Wheels,"  the one-pager succintcly broke down the issue, the barriers, and the plan for allowing mobile food vendors to roam the streets of Sacramento.  Personally, I have read the city ordinances but I still cannot quite understand the reasoning that prohibits such glorious eating establishments from taking root in our fine city.  (Perhaps you can, so be it, but I really think we're missing out.)  I chose to heed Rob Turner's advice and write to city council member and Vice Mayor Steve Cohn (as well as the editors of SacTown Maga