The OC Foodie Fest is rolling into Anaheim, CA in late August, featuring and bringing together 50 gourmet food trucks into one location so you can chow down and try out some yummy treats from various gourmet food trucks from around Southern California. It will also be featuring local entertainment, offering support for local charities, and of course, lots of food!

I haven’t really visited any gourmet food trucks myself. I spotted a sweets/desserts one when I was visiting Alyssa awhile ago and sadly we had already eaten and were stuffed, otherwise we would have visited. I know there are a few down in San Diego, but I’ve never seen any (though I have read about them). I’m totally excited about this OC Foodie Fest since it seems so unique and will be offering a pretty good variety of different foods from the SoCa gourmet food trucks. I’m not 100% sure I am going yet but I’m going to make the effort to go!

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Jake has a pizza stone in his oven and so I figured I would preheat the pizza stone and slide the pizza onto it after it got up to the right temperature (I set it for 500 degrees). Problem was… I couldn’t get the pizza off of the cutting board I had it on. Jake tried his hardest to help me but I inadvertently messed it up. We ended up just putting it on a sheet pan.

It looked really good and smelled really good when it came out of the oven – I put a thin layer of BBQ sauce on the crust, with the BBQ chicken pieces (which had a mixture of Phil’s BBQ Sauce and Sweet Baby Rays on it – yum), some onions, fresh mozzarella cheese and then I topped it with cilantro when I took it out of the oven.

The issue? The middle was too thin. The outer crust was perfect. I had stretched the dough out too far and it got messed up even more during its mishap into the oven.

Oh well, I’m determined to make near-perfect pizza again soon. Surely I can roll out some pizza dough and have it be totally delicious, right?

I haven’t been to Boudin since we went last year to the Disney California Food & Wine Festival. Alyssa and I had really, really amazing cheese soup in bread bowls there before we went to a wine tasting. I wish they served that soup at other locations! It was sadly only for the Food & Wine Festival. But man, it was delicious (not to mention that our soup bowl was also pretty tasty).

The coupon is to try one of the new artisan sandwiches. Use the coupon above to try one of them out by August 11, 2010. Happy fooding!

We got into the restaurant about mid-morning on a Saturday. Since the Groupon has only been available a few days before our visit, they were already out of all of their pastries. Bummer. The owner told us that we should try and come back after it’s died down a little to try and get some of the pastries (or either get there really, really early, I guess). We all opted to get breakfast items for our visit.

One of the kiddies got Pancakes. She let us all have a bite and the pancakes were quite fluffy and tasty. Very simple but very good.

The boys both got French Toast for their breakfast. This isn’t the cranberry bread variety that’s listed on the website though since there were no cranberries in it; but it was really delicious. One of the kiddies wasn’t able to finish his plate of french toast and so Jake and I attacked it and finished it off. The bread was light and airy and almost melted away when you ate it – but it also had a crisp texture on the outside making it really yummy.

Jake got the Breakfast Burrito which had scrambled eggs, bacon, and hash browns in them. He was in love with this burrito. I had to admit that I was crushing on it as well after a couple of bites. The ratio of items inside the burrito was really good – and the hash browns were really excellent! I’m really, really picky about my hash browns. I like them to be super crispy on the outside and almost creamy on the inside (like the ones at Keith’s, which are my absolute favorite hash browns ever) and these fit the bill. Jake liked this burrito so much he almost ordered another one! But he refrained.

As for me, I got the Morning Sandwich with bacon. It came with scrambled eggs, a slice of provolone cheese and really good bacon. My only disappointment with the sandwich is that I wish the bread had been toasted, but it didn’t occur to me to ask. I thought it was going to come on a roll instead of sliced bread so that’s probably why. The sandwich kind of fell apart while I was eating it, but the basic flavors were all there – it tasted fresh, which is something I always appreciate. I ate those orange slices, too. Yummy.

I didn’t take photos of them, but we got a loaf of sourdough and a loaf of jalapeno cheese bread for our free loaves with the Groupon. We used the breads to make some awesome ham and grilled sandwiches for dinner 2 nights in a row (they were that tasty). I’d love to come back to Bread on Market and try some of their pastries if I can ever snag any and eat some more of that French Toast… and hope that Jake gives me another bite of a burrito.

Bread on Market
730 Market St
(between 7th Ave & 8th Ave)
San Diego, CA 92101
(619) 795-2730

Hours:
Monday-Friday 7 a.m. – 5 p.m, Saturday 8 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Open until 7 p.m. on Padre game nights.

Today’s Visa Deal of the Day just so happens to be a fine eating establishment for you Los Angeleans to enjoy on a fine summer day. The offer is at Mendocino Farms. Mendocino Farms promotes eating seasonally and locally by sharing how easy it is to incorporate local produce in sandwiches, salads and soups and how to navigate the Farmer’s Market to purchase that product from Local Farmers. For $6 you’ll get $12 worth of treats and sandwiches – plus give another deal to a friend when you use your Visa card!

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