Soledad Tamales is a traveling food cart that's part of the Oxaxan Tamale Group in Oaktown. they…read morewere out of tamales, etc. by the time i got here. it's was nearby Melon Crush in Bayfair Farmers Market on satirdays offerings: tamales (3.50) premade -chicken -pork -jalepeno with queso(cheese) -guatamalan -oaxacan -strawberry no seating avilable, farmers market bigger than before, not in front as before, it's in the rear nearby the theatres.

Ruben's Hibachi is a popular food stand parked a block away from Chase & Wells Fargo bank. Street…read moreparking only. Look for the white cabless caboose at Paseo Grande & Via Arriba. Parked behind white truck. Greeted courteously, promptly when I approached window. Took their recommendation for shrimp, N.Y. Steak. Breast meat combo. Payment options: cash. Zelle, Apple Pay. One table for dining. Super Bowl Sunday was a slow day here. Many vendors didn't show or closed early. Cooked to order in 10 minutes Offerings: drinks, combination plates. Diablo noodles, sides. Bites: shrimp, NY steak, chicken breast plate (31+tax) -came with Yum Yum sauce ( creamy mayoish), Ginger sauce (soy, ginger...) dipped with all proteins. -7 large crunchy juicy shrimps. Deliz. -many small pieces medium rare steaks: juicy, tender, no gristle. Juices mixed with fried rice was so tasty. -chicken breast pieces also tender. A little dry. Juices made it good. -left grilled veggies (onion, carrots. Cucumber) for snack later. Too full. Veggies deliz. -comped a can of coke. Learned Ruben worked 30 years at Benihana & Hana Japan. Recipes the same. Family operated food stand. 5 stars worthy! Quantity: plenty. Quality: excellent. Fresh. Cooked to order.

I cannot express enough how amazingly delicious Ruben's is! With his history in working at infamous…read morehibachi restaurants for many years, he decided to branch out on his own. Lucky for us! If you want amazing hibachi grilled flavors... head to what I call The Block on Paseo Grande and Hesperian in San Lorenzo. An entire block on weekends and some week nights. Such a humble family, all smiles and amazing authentic tasting eats! The hustle and bustle of The Block makes for a fun night! Someone else Claimed our order so while we waited for them to remake ours, we had a Michẽ from another truck, and sweet mini donuts from a stand around the corner. Look at my other reviews for how that worked out!! Thank you for taking care of us so well when someone else took our order!

Great dumpling with chives crispy and salted well You can…read morealso buy the uncooked frozen

Love how they handmade their tortillas! The burritos here are HUGE! Good enough to share with two…read moreeven 3 people people and try other things. They have a salsa station in the front where you can pick up all the salsas you want. They have seating around & small lot. This is a food truck located in a parking lot. I opted to pick up through doordash as they had a happy hour special at the time. The service was quick and friendly! I'll definitely come back to try other menu items.

DON'T EAT AT THIS PLACE!!!!…read more I used to love this place. However, the burrito I got last week ago gave me severe food poisoning. That was the only meal I had that day so I know for a fact that it was this burrito that caused the poisoning. I was out of commission for the whole week with constant vomiting and diarrhea. This place should not be serving food without a health inspection.

2Oi is an home kitchen that opened 2 years ago in Argyle Palms Apartments. Initially I didn't know…read morehow to order. Lately, I saw instructions posted on their website on Yelp. I called to place order. Got a recording. Got a return call confirming my order. Found it's better to text with C6 or F7 unless one can speak Vietnamese. Main associate lacks English proficiency. Much easier for her to get "code" Place was an easy find. Street parking slightly difficult. Unknown if parking in their lot is permissible. Went towards big building on the right . Found unit with "Taste of Asia" brochure on window. Just before the gate. Bingo! Stood in front of open door until Vietnamese lady came out with my order. $21 cash. Unknown if Zelle has tax added to it. Tipped a little. Lady hesitated to give change. Offerings (Vietnamese): street food, drinks, coffee. Sips: Cafe Muoi Bien (sea salt foam Vietnamese coffee, 7)-Viet coffee, sea salt foam, condensed milk. -coffee didn't look full. No doubt foam on top shrank/mixed into coffee. -bold coffee with alternating sweet & salty tastes depending on sipping foam or condensed milk. Bites: Banh Trang Cuon (Vietnamese Special roll, 14). There's also a salad version with same ingredients & no wrapping. -dipping sauce had sweet & savory notes. -rice roll had dominant theme of beef jerky. The surrounding nuanced taste was a symphonic medley of carrots, quarter sectioned boiled eggs, coriander, green mango, dried shrimp, fried onions, peanuts & green mangos, 5 stars Worthy! Quality: freshly premade. Quantiy: ample enough for a meal. Would repeat. *Taste of Asia "passport" given to win prizes from buying from food vendors in Oakland Chinatown & San Leandro Asian businesses. May is Asian American Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Like others have said, text to order and pick up. Fast and efficient and they accept cash/zelle…read more Needed a pick me up on a work trip and ordered the chia seed and grass jelly Vietnamese coffee since that was a unique mix I haven't had before and I've had a lot of Viet coffee. Couldn't ask for a better drink, it had the right amount of sweetness and creaminess you'd expect in Viet coffee. edit: my mistake! only zelle and cash :)

La Tortilla is a food stand that appears weekends in a vacant parking lot that once hosted the San…read moreLorenzo Farmers Market. it's at a corner location across from a long vacated liquor store. it's not noticeable for afar. only a black covered griller and a sign on the corner is visible upon closer inspection. offerings: mexican "bbq" chicken, spareribs marinated and grilled slowly over charcoal. this is the lst griller l've seen that is covered, not susceptible to overhead contamination. eats: whole chicken chopped (15) -not as juicy as i wanted but not as dry as previous chickens. much bigger, juicier than others i've tasted. -had 3 house made salsas that were phenom: a green (looking like quac but not), a red sweet chili one, and a red spicy one. - -there were few chickens in the "cooked" basket. there's always an option to wait for chickens/spareribs to cook to perfection. 4.5 stars, best "bbq" chicken eaten so far, fab value,

I was really dissapointed .... I stopped by at 3pm on a Saturday and purchased a whole chicken for…read more$15 and half slab of ribs for $10. They cook these over charcoal and the chicken is spatchcocked. (split in half) I was expecting for them to pull chicken off the grill but instead, they pulled them from a cooler. Evidently they cook them up and chop up into the strangest sized pieces and throw in coolers. I had no idea what we were eating. The half rack of ribs was all the gristel and cartilage cut off the ends. I received no bones and very little meat connected to the cartilage. So now they don't have anything to feed their dogs.

It's a little bit hard to find - down a driveway in a residential neighborhood - though worth the…read moreeffort! Delicious food & people - like eating in your chef friend's nice backyard. I had a birria quesadilla & left happy & very full! ;)

I thought we wouldn't be treated as well because me and my girlfriend aren't Hispanic and don't…read morespeak Spanish. The lady however was super nice and welcoming it felt like I was a little Mexican kid waiting for his mom's cooking... The food was also super good, Birria nice and juicy and the portions are massive. Great service I always make sure to leave a tip here because of how nice they are...

this Mexican snack stand has it's colorful shade covering up. it's in the parking lot of a western…read morewear parking lot. no posted menu seen. offerings: fried snacks, fruit cups, corn nibbets, some kind of snack that are in the plastic jars that goes over crushed ice. eats: fruit cup (7) -very fresh chucks of cucumber, watermelon, cantaloupe, mango flavored with lime and salt. tasty, refreshing. 4.5 stars.

Tortas Ahogadas is a small food stand near 94th St. & International Ave. no parking available. just…read morea red zone in front. offerings" Pork Torta Ahogadas (8.50) horchata (3) -not regular pork, some kind of "grilled" pork shreds in regular torta bun -looked small, packed a lot of flavor, choice of hella hot red salsa or milder red "meaty" dipping sauce. cabbage, carrots, veggies optional. lime squeeze. *i ate it by dipping torta into mild salsa, than slowly biting a piece off. YUM! **best torta eaten in a long time. best of the "natural" kind. horchata(3) -slightly sweetened by cane sugar? -natural tasting, no aftertaste, homemade. worthy! hours may be sunday only, didn't see it on a previous saturday.

Jose took my $200 deposit and never showed up to cater my event…read more Let this be a lesson to me, but hopefully a learning opportunity for anyone else. Please do not conduct business with this person. I communicated with him in May, we settled on a menu, the logistics, etc. I sent him a $200 deposit for what was going to be a total of $450 for a taquiza for 40 people. One week prior to the event which was held on June 12th, I text him to make sure we were good to go. No response. I text him twice a day every day for a week and he did not respond. I called several times and it went straight to voicemail. I even had other people call or text from different numbers to see if this would entice him to respond. Nothing. What's done is done, I asked him for my money back but I'm sure I won't hear back. I can't stress this enough: Please do not conduct business with this man.

Found Jose that runs Taquiza El Primo through a friend of mine. He did tacos and quesadillas for…read moreher sons birthday party. I had a house party for the 4th of July and wanted to keep cooking to a minimum and decided to contact Jose. He was extremely pleasant and very professional. Not to mention the tacos were delicious. He gave me the best rate and showed up early to set up. I was thrilled that he was willing to do a night party (7-11pm) on a Holiday. He allowed me to choose 3 types of meat, and brought onions, cilantro, limes and 3 salsas. Everyone was more than satisfied with his service and I will definitely hire him for my next party. Don't be afraid to contact him. He works all over the bay area.