The Binary Chef - Get On The Burger Bus

June 17, 2009

Here at Horny Toad, we are obsessed with food. Sure, we make and are passionate about our clothes, but we are driven by good food and lucky enough to have an office full of some amazing chefs. From gourmet grilled cheese cook offs and backyard office barbeques to weekly doses of banana bread and some killer hand-made guac, we take our food very seriously. And, just to clarify, not "serious" in a buttoned up, stuffy way, but we Toads (an Nauians) are always actively engaged in finding and experiencing what life has to offer, and often that search leads us to finding and eating great food.  

Sometimes these discoveries come from unexpected places. Knausifer (Jenn Jenn) and I recently had the pleasure of experiencing Santa Barbara's newest lunch adventure, The Burger Bus. For anyone that has yet to have the pleasure, The Burger Bus [http://theburgerbus.com/index.html] is a converted school bus (short and yellow) that migrates around the Santa Barbara/Goleta area to serve up gourmet burgers (with ciabatta bread and jalapeño jelly), Telegraph [http://www.telegraphbrewing.com/purchase.htm] beer battered onion rings, kick-ass veggie falafel and fried pickle chips to those in the know on where it will be that day. It ponies up (well, drives) to several key private parking lots around town and makes it's whereabouts for the afternoon known via Twitter (@TheBurgerBus). The husband and wife owners/chefs seem to delight in serving up grub to the lunchers and pride themselves on using local SB farmer's market ingredients mixed in with breads and cheeses (from Our Daily Bread and Spring Hill Cheese of Petaluma, respectively).  

Now, as we were waiting for our order yesterday and watching the throngs of other eager eaters gravitate towards the beacon of deliciousness, all we could think was "Why didn't we think of this?" quickly followed by "Why don't we have a parking lot?" Kudos to The Burger Bus for giving us and our taste buds something else to take very seriously.

P.S.  Did you know that the Italian translation for "ciabatta" is literally "carpet slipper"?

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Mmm, the pickles today were fab and I had the pleasure of trying the grilled cheese - superb. Wednesdays the bus parks over at the Oreana winery parking lot; ever so convenient for the Toads!!!

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