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Good Old Days Festival

Gladys Parada — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 15:36:16 +0000

Join Babaloo at the 54th Annual Good Old Days Festival this weekend, Apr 9-10, 10a-5pm. We’ll be amongs all the fabulous fun in quaint Pacific Grove, including the first ever Latin Music Stage. So, come down for your Cubanos & shake your tailfeathers all day long! Hasta Pronto!!

SJ Eats Festival

Gladys Parada — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:08:45 +0000

Babaloo wants you to join us as we join San Jose Eats inaugural food truck festival on Saturday, April 2, 2011. There’ll be over 20 trucks offering delicioso food during lunch (11:30am-3:30pm) and dinner (5pm-9m). Come get your tasty Cuban sandwiches — Ricky, Lucy and Fred&Ethel — during lunch and show your support of this revolutionary new food trend that’s bringing you great food at great prices!! The Fiesta is in San Jose, N. Almaden Avenue at St. John Street.

Best Food Truck!

Gladys Parada — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 03:57:56 +0000

Best Food Truck – Babaloo Cuban

Muchas Gracias!! I love all the support from the BabaLocos in Monterey!! Keep showing YOUR love and let’s get more food trucks rollin’ around the Peninsula!!

Monterey Farmers Market

Gladys Parada — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:32:26 +0000

Babaloo Rolls “Off The Truck”!

Starting Tuesday, February 15 — Babaloo will have a booth at the fabulous Alvarado Street market! Featuring our popular combo plates with pulled pork, grilled chicken, braised beef or the fun-to-say “Vita-noMeata-Vegamin (local grilled vegetables). Pick up your meals–pre-packed for ‘uno’ or ‘dos’–at our booth & check out our complete Babaloo “Off the Truck” menu!

“The Hat” Revised

Gladys Parada — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 16:21:54 +0000

the hat

Gladys Parada — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 21:40:59 +0000

The Duchess is Born

Brian Sadler — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 07:30:00 +0000

The duchess is our 1986 Chevy truck. She’s had many incarnations, to be sure, but I’ve got that deep down feeling, that this is her best. She’s never been a Latin lady before, but it sure feels like it. I briefly named her “Amazon” because she’s big and bad-ass. But once her makeover was complete, that rumba dance scene painted on her ‘big side’ makes her look like she’s dancing herself. It made me think of my mom–forever in her spiked-heels, big hoop earrings and colorful dresses–who never stops shakin’ her hips. When I remembered mom’s childhood nickname, “La Duques,” I laughed and thought, Who better to bring some spicy Cuban flavor to our Peninsula part of the world than “The Duchess”?

Mira! Classic Cuban Cuisine Now Cruising the Monterey Peninsula

Gladys Parada — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:26:49 +0000

The new Babaloo Cuban Cuisine food truck is now rollin’ through the Monterey Peninsula, and beyond. Enjoy our classic Cuban pressed sandwiches, fresh fish sliders, pulled pork plates, vegetarian and gluten-free specialties, and more! Our high-quality ingredients are fresh and organic and–to the delight of all you locavores–all food items are sourced from area vendors. We eagerly serve it up to you from “The Duchess,” our saucy, rumba-dancing truck. We could ‘splain further, but how ’bout you cha-cha over to see and taste first-hand? Check the truck schedule for our daily locations. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

The Sliders Are Ready for Their Close-ups

Brian Sadler — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:11:05 +0000

Photo shoots sound way more exciting than they really are. It’s a long, tedious process which requires all of your patience, micro-attention to detail and endurance. I was lucky enough to spend the day watching two very talented young women make Babaloo’s food come to life for the camera. (Yeah, I tried to help, but was actually in the way. I’m told this is normal.) The frames that were finally selected made the drive down from Monterey to Los Angeles more than worth it. See for yourself. They look good enough to eat!

The Duchess's New Clothes

Brian Sadler — Sat, 15 May 2010 08:59:09 +0000

The Duchess’s New Clothes

The Duchess can shake her thing, can’t she? It’s like she’s dancing even when sitting in Park. She’s been all dolled up with a grandiose, rumba-themed explosion of a mural by Justin Winter, the utterly mad street artist out of New Orleans. He arrived in San Francisco with such a blast of energy, I thought maybe he’d paint my house, too. As we headed past Carmel-by-the-Sea toward the Babaloo truck site, Justin insisted on swinging a U-turn and pulling to the side. Hell-bent on thanking his gods with a baptism-like ritual in the icy Pacific waters, he stripped down and dove in. That’s how things started the week. The Duchess got her wild new look: one bare truck and one naked painter.