Michael Tusk: Duck tacos with red cabbage and spiced quince coming right up
In the spring of this year, some of the city’s top chefs, from Delfina’s Craig Stoll to Betelnut’s Alex Ong, took over the Tacolicious Thursday market stand for a day and cooked up some outstanding tacos. (The octopus and potato taco from former Fish & Farm chef Chad Newton might have been my favorite, but Craig’s cabeza taco—inspired by a floating cow head he saw bob up to the surface of a pot one blurry, mescal-y night in Mexico—was another memorable one.) We had A16 chef Liza Shaw, former Laiola chef Mark Denham. You name the best chefs in SF, they were at the market slinging tacos.
With a kickoff of hog jowl tacos from Bar Tartine chef Chris Kronner last Thursday, our eight-week guest taco chef program is back. All proceeds from our guest chefs’ tacos go to CUESA (Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture), the non-profit behind the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market. Last year we raised over $5000 to go towards CUESA’s educational programs.
The confirmed chef dates are below (including two of the city’s fine-dining chefs and one of our favorite chefs in town, Hoss Zaré), but also in attendance will be chefs Jennifer Puccio of Marlowe, Grace Nguyen of Out the Door and Massimiliano Conti of La Ciccia. Stay tuned on the Tacolicious’s Facebook page and Twitter feed to find out the dates of all the chefs and what they’ll be making.
See you at the market, Thursdays, 10 am to 2 pm. Come and get it!
Confirmed dates:
October 21, Michael Tusk, Quince
October 28, Hoss Zare, Zaré at Flytrap
November 3, Josh Skenes, Saison