Jenn, Misa and I went out to the Road Stoves (www.roadstoves.com) lot on Thursday to check out our truck and practice driving it for the first time! Allison Torneros (www.allisontorneros.com), our designer, also joined us to take measurements of the truck and get inspired before coming up with our final design. The truck [...]
We got some great press hits over the past week, including a mention in Elina Shatkin’s taco truck article in the LA Times this past Wednesday, a nice write up in the new Grub Street: Los Angeles food blog by Hadley Tomicki, and a very extensive interview with CaliforniaTacoTrucks.com by Cyrus Farivar! Thank [...]
Misa and I took a trip out to meet with the “Godfather” of mobile food trucks (at least that’s what I like to call him), Morris Appel, owner of Road Stoves (www.roadstoves.com). For those of you who don’t know, this is the guy who has been an integral part of the recent mobile food truck [...]
Thank you everyone for voting and giving us your thoughts on our logo design! I’m proud to announce that we’ve finally chosen our completed logo, so without further ado…
Thanks again to Allison Torneros who designed the logo. She’s been fabulous to work with, and everyone here at Nom Nom loves the job she did for [...]
We’re trying to decide how our Nom Nom logo should look, and our designer, Allison Torneros, has come up with a few ideas. We’ve chosen two that we like the most and now we want to get YOUR thoughts on them! They aren’t quite final yet, but we want to know which direction to head [...]
LAist.com just did a short write up about us! Thanks! I think we owe them lunch some time in August. ;)
http://laist.com/2009/06/16/vietnamese_taco_truck_to_hit_the_we.php
Our first press hit! Thanks to our friends over at www.whiteonricecouple.com, who passed along our information to their editor at LA Weekly this past weekend, we just had a blog post written about us! How exciting! http://blogs.laweekly.com/squidink/new-restaurants/trucker-update-nom-nom-truck-c/
The Nom Nom Truck Website is now officially launched! For those of you who don’t already know, Nom Nom Truck is a new mobile food truck that will serve “Banh Mi”, or Vietnamese sandwiches, along with other Vietnamese-inspired food. (Yes, we WILL have tacos…this is Los Angeles, after all.) We will primarily hover [...]
Impromtu Banh Mi photo shoot
Since we just launched our Web site recently and had been using some Banh Mi pics that weren’t ours as placeholder images, we thought it was time to get some of our own pics on our Web site. Never mind the fact that when we emailed the people who owned [...]
Instructor "Jimmy" lecturing about food safety
That’s right folks, Nom Nom Truck is now officially certified to handle your food! In preparation for our launch, Misa and I took a food handler’s class today and received our temporary certificates! We won’t get our real certificates until after we receive our final test results in four [...]