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After the wild success of Le Camion Qui Fume, Paris now has a second food truck to stalk. The Cantine California opened for business this week selling burgers, carnitas, and red velvet cupcakes at the Marchés Raspail and Saint-Honoré.
The products are 100% organic and the menu offerings range from breakfast burritos and buttermilk pancakes to avocado burgers and enchiladas. Homemade cupcakes and milkshakes are available for dessert or between-meal snacks.
The truck is run by a pair of Jordans. Boy Jordan is a Canadian who spent time in California and then married a Frenchie. Lady Jordan is a graduate of the Ferrandi cooking school – the same school that graduated Kristin Frederick from Le Camion Qui Fume.
Speaking of Kristin, I spoke to her during the week that Le Camion Qui Fume had been temporarily shut down. She mentioned that part of her (now resolved) bureaucratic problem was related to the city’s need to reevaluate how to they wanted to handle the hundreds of food truck permit applications they have received in recent months. Based on this, I think we can expect many more food trucks to hit the pavement in the coming year.
In the meantime, the schedule for the Cantine California seems to be:
- Tuesdays at le Marché Raspail: 10am-12pm: brunch; 12-2:30pm for lunch
- Wednesdays at le Marché Saint-Honoré: 12-2:30pm for lunch; 3-7pm for cupcakes and shakes; 7-8:30pm for dinner
- Fridays at le Marché Raspail: 10am-12pm: brunch; 12-2:30pm for lunch
- Saturdays at le Marché Saint-Honoré: 9:30am-3pm: brunch and lunch
If you’ve tried it, let us know!
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I’ve tried it last saturday. And I loved it. I strogly recommand the cali classic with avocado, red onions and bacon. Yummy.
They offered me a cupcake also, which was great.
Great news. Now that everybody will be going to queue at the food trucks, perhaps we’ll have a chance to enter some restaurants again!
Marché Raspail, great! Sure is nice having something exciting happening foodwise over on this side of town.
I’m collecting photos of food trucks and have, at Google’s Panoramio, a collection. Could you please post your photos there as well?
Went today at Marché Hon. at 1pm…waited over an hour! They ran out of everything except burgers (which were AMAZING!)
Clearly a few supply chain bugs to be worked out, but excellent food. Will be back to try pulled pork etc. There was a lot of prep that could have been done beforehand. Once they get in the groove I think this place will be great.
Soon we’ll be wondering what constitutes a food truck, and what constitutes a simple burger van (similar to those that have already been existence for decades at certain points around the city).
I can’t imagine this fashion lasting for too long, simply because it must be horrible to work in those vans!
A Wall Street Journal article (not on the web) was entitled “1st Taco Truck As American As Fajita Pie” and noted that it travelled in NYC and was started by two non-Latina women in the 1960′s. Who woulda thunk it?
I’m waiting for a Korean food truck to pop up.