"Babaloo Cuban Food Truck Earns National Cooking Channel Spotlight Tonight" by Food Blog

Babaloo Cuban Food Truck Earns National Cooking Channel Spotlight Tonight

January 31, 2012

Babaloo Cuban Food Truck (262-4150) is rolling big time.

Its national television debut—and mine, caught fawning over the Lucy Lucy and Ricky Ricardo pressed sandwiches ($7 each)—happens 8pm tonight with an episode on the Cooking Channel show Eat Street.

The show, which also profiles the Notorious P.I.G. and Snoop Dog Dog sandwiches of San Francisco's Brass•Knuckle, among several stylish and tasty trucks, oozes with a wealth of food porn footage. The imagery had the group gathered at the Weekly for a quick sneak preview this afternoon ready to eat a stapler or copy machine or anything within reach. And nothing looked better than her Fred & Ethel fish sliders or beautifully goopy pulled pork.

Nice reminder how lucky we are to claim BCFT chief Gladys Parada as our own, even though they assign her to San Jose in the segment. And nice to see it finally show six-plus months after we traveled to S.J. on a hot-ass summer day to shoot it.

It also airs 8pm this Saturday, Feb. 4, and Feb. 16. In the meantime, munch lunch with Parada and her peeps at the Old Monterey Marketplace Tuesdays 4-7pm and 11am-2am this Thursday, Feb. 2, at Acme Coffee (393-9113).

For a look back at the very first publicity Parada and her epic truck received, check a photo-heavy blog post called "Honk If You Love Babaloo Cuban Food Truck" from August 2010.