Los Angeles: Kogi BBQ Truck Grows Up and Procreates

Finally, high- and lowbrow foodie culture have meshed into one singular explosion of trendiness. The fancy folk are gleefully returning to food carts and regular Angelenos are happily chowing down on self-proclaimed fusion cuisine at the flavor of the moment: Kogi BBQ. See, Kogi is a Korean taco truck. It smooshes together two of LA’s best culinary traditions to create one awesome package: bulgogi in a corn tortilla! For a short while it was underground, moving around the city with only a Twitter feed to alert the most obsessed early adopters. But (and this may come as a shock to out-of-towners), LA is a food city, and this couldn’t stay hidden for long.

Kogi now has a regular schedule (listed on their site), and it speaks to its hipness: Wednesdays at the Golden Gopher, Thursdays in Little Tokyo, Fridays in Silver Lake ... and late Fridays and Saturdays at The Brig in Venice, Kogi’s one stop on the Westside (yeah, suck it, beach towns).

Angelenos are promised a second truck any day now—a baby Kogi to zoom around town and melt hearts all over again. It might add more stops on the Westside. But if I had to guess, I’d say they’ll first add more in the San Gabriel Valley. Coolness is moving ever eastward, and the fusion with it.