Slow on the Go
Civic Center Plaza | Friday, August 29 – Sunday, August 31; 11am – 4pm | Open to Public/Items for Sale
Located next to the Market at Civic Center Plaza, Slow on the Go demonstrated how “fast” Slow Food can be. Visitors were able to purchase affordable “street food” prepared by local businesses cooking with fully sustainable, source-verified ingredients. Slow on the Go celebrated the beauty, taste and cultural diversity of old and new American culinary traditions.
Vendors
- Bi-Rite Creamery
Bi-Rite Creamery, based in San Francisco’s Mission district, makes ice cream with just a handful of ingredients: Straus Family Creamery’s organic cream, local eggs, organic sugar, local produce and fair-trade chocolate and coffee. - Blue Bottle Coffee Co.
Blue Bottle Coffee is a Bay Area-based roaster that uses organic shade-grown coffee beans, roasts in tiny batches and solemnly vows to never to sell coffee that’s more than 48 hours out of the roaster. - El Huarache Loco
A member of La Cocina, Veronica Salazar cooks up huaraches just like you’d find on the streets of Mexico City. El Huarache Loco is at the Alemany Market on Saturdays and Sundays and is always available for catering. - Fatted Calf
The Fatted Calf, based in Napa, produces a wide range of hand-crafted cured meats and sausages using sustainability-raised heritage meats, local produce, and organic herbs and spices. - Heritage Foods USA
Heritage Foods USA, a distributor of heritage breed pork, poultry, beef and lamb, helps small family farms around the country reach markets around the country. Heritage brought ranchers, old-school Virginia and Tennessee ham curers and New York and Seattle salami makers to San Francisco to make the best salami and ham sandwiches Civic Center had ever seen. - Imperial Tea Court
A traditional Chinese teahouse owned by an ordained Daoist priest, The Imperial Tea Court in San Francisco serves a wide selection of high-end teas as well as Beijing-style dim sum and hand-pulled noodles. - Let’s Be Frank
Let’s Be Frank was founded to support ranchers who raise their cattle totally on pasture. Serving 100% grass-fed beef hot dogs, using meat from local ranchers and organic seasonings, these are dogs gone good. - Primavera
Primavera, based in Sonoma, grinds organic corn and mixes it with lime to make masa for its tamales and tortillas. A friend to Bay Area farmers, Primavera uses local, organic produce and sustainably-raised meats. - Out the Door
Owned by the proprietor of the Slanted Door in San Francisco, Out the Door serves bahn mi, pho and other traditional Vietnamese street foods made with local, ecologically farmed produce, meat and poultry. - Vik’s Chaat Corner
Initially started as a side project by California’s largest importer of Indian goods, Vik’s is located in a warehouse in Berkeley and serves traditional Indian street food like the soccer ball-sized puffed bhatura cholle, long crisp dosa and crispy puri.
