Tom's Foodie Blog

I wanted to make my readers aware of a fabulous event coming up next weekend the Palm Desert Food and Wine Festival! Taking place March 23rd-25th, this Gastromic Festival will feature  dynamic Chefs, Wineries and Artisan Food Vendors all gathering together in a meeting of tribes. During this event you will be able to walk through the event and [...]

Hello fellow foodies! I constantly look for trends in “Foodie Scene”, to share with my readers. A couple of the biggest “Foodie” trends I see happening right now are: “Farm to Table” Chef Centric Restaurants Pop-Up Restaurants Organic Gluten Free Gourmet Food Trucks “Local” and “Sustainability” Small food business in vogue. With these trends, I have seen a large uptick in [...]

  The Home Skillet Truck, as I pointed out in a previous post “Top 10 Food Trucks of 2011”, is one of my favorite new food trucks. This gourmet food truck is the baby of Orange County native, Chef Christie Morisoli. She gained her street cred by graduating from the Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Institute [...]

It’s that time of year again! It’s Orange County Restaurant Week, one of my favorite times of the year.  This is your chance to experience some special prix fixe menus from many of Orange County’s restaurants, from February 26th to march 3rd. Despite what one of the reality housewifes  might say about the OC Restaurant scene, [...]

http://tomsfoodieblog.com/the-o-c-food-truck-directory/ Just a quick note to my Foodie followers and fans of Gourmet Food Trucks. I have expanded my Food Truck Directory to include Orange County based Gourmet Food Trucks and Los Angeles carpet bagging Gourmet Food Trucks that pouch the O.C. food truck lots. Don’t worry L.A. Truckers we still love you! I have [...]