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SOMA—Laurent Katgely of Chez Spencer is hopping on the mobile vendor trend. He's going to park a reborn taco truck outside Terroir on weekend and will serve ... French food like skate braised with capers. Prices will be, ahem, less than $12. Not quite the same street food appeal as say, MSF's original incarnation or Kogi, but we'll see. [Scoop]
SANTA ROSA—But this is an idea we can strongly support off the bat. Rosso Pizzeria remains a hotspot up north, and MB called their pizzas "some of the best pizzas [he's] had." And now they are going to have a mobile pizza oven at the Santa Rosa Wednesday night market, starting next week. Brilliant. [PD]
BERKELEY—The always-protesty UCB students seem to have won their fight against barring Panda Express from campus, as the Panda contract was rejected at yesterday's meeting. [DC]
EATER BOOK CLUB— Mark Kurlanksy (the guy who wrote food-related books like Cod, Salt and The Big Oyster) has a new book called The Food of a Younger Land about the the culinary habits of an earlier America, and he'll be reading/discussing the book on May 19 at 7pm at Books Inc in Opera Plaza. It's free. [EaterWire]
MARIN—A new sushi restaurant is going into the cursed Mill Valley space that has previously housed a Thai restaurant, First Crush, Mi Casa and Ora: "In a few weeks it will become Tsukiji, whose owner, Roy Lui, owned Ikura in San Rafael from 1993 to 1999, and Morpho Sushi in San Francisco's Cow Hollow district." [MIJ]
CHAINS—While New Yorkers riot for Oprah-endorsed free KFC grilled chicken, someone actually took the time to check the ingredients for the "healthy" and unsurprisingly, it's full of nefarious MSG and evil trans fats. [LAist]