A couple of days ago, Kaye, Carol  and I had an almost whole day video shoot in Hayward which ended sometime mid afternoon.  After that, Kaye and I had another event in San Francisco that turned into a little bit of a ‘temporary’ letdown that lasted all of five minutes.   It was about 6pm in San Francisco and for a change, it wasn’t raining.  That in itself was a pleasant treat.  We’d  been holed up under our raincoats and umbrellas for days. SAD was lurking in the shadows.

We were on Chestnut Street at the Marina in San Francisco on a relaxed Friday night and we were with friends.  We went to an impromptu party at a cute bath and body store of  products made in Israel with scents sourced in Provence.  They’re featured here. After spending an unexpected hour there, we headed for Off the Grid at Fort Mason.   Kaye and I  were  craving cupcakes from CupKates and we wanted our friends to try it.

And holy cow, the place was packed!  It was a Street Food Street Fair in a parking lot!    There WAS Cupkates – and a whole lot more!

Food Truck Love at Fort Mason on Friday evenings. Image from website.

Off the Grid, Friday evenings at Fort Mason in San Francisco

Street food in San Francisco has a cult following.  These mobile diners with a fan base  make use of social media Twitter and Facebook to let their fans know where they will be.  And the ever growing crowd goes wild!  I don’t know exactly how many vendors where there ~ but the place was full of all kinds of happy, shiny and fun  people on their lawn chairs just enjoying a clear (and cold) evening; eating, munching and just plain old having a great time.   We went around after securing our cupcakes.  We would’ve had dinner here if we knew what it was all about.   We WILL be back ~ especially when the weather warms up a little bit.  We made a bee line for CupKates.   Casey and a friend was working the shift and we said hello. It looked like they were selling well  (as expected!).   If you haven’t tasted these yet, you’re really missing a good thing!  No, really.  It’s THAT good!

Friday night's Cupkates menu - One of each, please. Thank you!

Here are the other food trucks / street food at Fort Mason that evening.

Kung Fu Tacos

Sign says it all, and you can follow them on Twitter and Facebook!

Hapa SF, Modern Organic Filipino Food

Happy "Filipino" by association. He was a cool chat!

S'more Tacos

I'm craving some of this right now. They had fans!

More merriment!

I love the city;  I don’t go there very often but on this fun Friday evening with friends, it sure was fun to discover new things!   On the way back we even went down Lombard Street ~ and AGAIN wondered who would like to live in the crookedest street in the world.  Except when we were at the top of the hill, I jumped out of the car for a second to take a shot of Coit Tower.

Coit Tower from the top of Lombard Street

~ and then you get it.  So pretty dressed in lights at night.  See what a cupcake craving can do?

Lemon meringue ~ my favorite