San Francisco's Inventive Food Cart Transforms Crème Brûlée

With inventive creme brulee flavors such as frosted flakes, s'mores, and lemon blueberry, the Creme Brulee Man - a.k.a. Curtis Kimball - is providing fun and tasty treats to the street food crowd. The Creme Brulee Cart has also carried these flavors in the past: vanilla bean (a fan favorite), Bailey’s Irish cream, dark chocolate Chambord, lavender, and Ritual Coffee.




 

Interview with the Man Behind the Adobo Hobo Food Cart

How ya doin', I'm Jason Rotairo, the Adobo Hobo and I have a San Francisco street food cart.

I serve Filipino food. It's mainly chicken adobo over rice and I also serve sisig tacos.

I started doin' the cart...My first night out was August 1st and I started doin' the cart because some friends came home one day and I was in the kitchen cookin'. They came home from visiting the creme brulee cart and encouraged me to get out here and get something going `cause I'm the cook of the household. So that's what I did, I got it started, and about 7-8 months later, still going strong.

So, originally I just started it to try it out, have some fun with it, but it's actually turning out to be a lot of fun for me and pretty successful so I'm going to keep it goin' and hopefully grow it into something else.

Food and Wine Maven: How many nights a week are you out?
JR: I'm usually out about three or four nights a week...and it's not just nights, I go out at lunchtime also. A lot of times, I'm at South Park for the lunchtime crowd over there.

Food and Wine Maven: Mmm. I loved your tacos tonight. They were killer.
JR: They were killer? Are you the one I'm going to teach?
Food and Wine Maven: Yes.
JR: OK. Let's do it.
Food and Wine Maven: Thank you.
JR: Thank you.