Today in Street Food and Free Lunches

I just got a tip that the Marination Mobile (which I just posted about yesterday) is rolling their Hawaiian and Korean cuisine over to the new Belltown Key Bank branch on First Avenue at Wall today from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Anyone that visits the Key Bank branch--ask about the interest rates on 6-month CDs--will get a coupon worth $10 of Marination munchies. I'm going to go out on a limb here and predict there will be a line.

A street foodie commented on my post about creating a street food corral downtown, so I gave Parks & Rec a call to see what they thought about my genius idea. I believe I got waved off the street-food take-over of Occidental Square, but in general they were supportive of "legalizing it." (It turns out the hugely successful "Mobile Chowdown" in Interbay wasn't permitted quite as strenuously as it could have been.)

The person to talk with about creating a street food corral may be Virginia Swanson, of the city's Special Events Committee (scroll down for contact information). The Parks & Rec people didn't forbid trying to get a permit for park use, but they did suggest a parking lot or other commercial-use area first.

That leaves me with my second genius idea, which is that CHS has been trying to think of a good use for the huge empty blacktop that Sound Transit has created at Broadway and John. Capitol Hill is swarming with hungry hipsters who love food-to-go. This ranks right up there with mayonnaise in the tuna can in terms of things that go together. I'll enlist CHS and see if there's popular support. If you're a street food wagoneer and are interested in circling up, shoot me an email: editor at sunbreakmagazine.com.