




With nearly 100 restaurants and more than 50 cuisines, there should be plenty to digest other than tunes this year at San Francisco’s Outside Lands music fest.
The annual shindig in Golden Gate Park, running from Aug. 8 through 10, will host many new restaurants and pop-ups serving everything from Colombian-Texas barbecue to Lebanese duck-fried rice to French tartiflettes with ham and cheese. Nobu will make its first appearance, with sashimi and rock-shrimp tempura, as well as live-fire eatery Angler with fried frog legs and “embered oysters.”
Caviar is a big theme this year, despite our times of economic wobbliness. San Francisco’s Caviar Co., co-founded by Marin resident Petra Higby, is making hot dogs with pickled shallots and Kaluga hybrid caviar, Angler is dolloping caviar with creme fraiche onto Parker House rolls and pop-up Ilna will have “chips and caviar” with salmon roe and buttermilk bulgur. And to drink, there’s the Wine Lands encampment featuring 20-plus wineries and Beer Lands with its more than 20 breweries.
“This year, we are excited to welcome a number of pop-up restaurants, particularly those serving fusion cuisine,” Tanya Kollar, food curator for Outside Lands, said via email. “Part of the excitement of a music festival is exploring up-and-coming artists, and now attendees will have the chance to explore some under-the-radar pop-ups that have become so highly sought after by Bay Area foodies.”
Some of the participants with Marin ties include Larkspur’s El Huarache Loco, which will offer chicken tinga huaraches, al pastor tacos, chilaquiles and pozole Mexican soup; Johnny Doughnuts, which has local locations in Larkspur and San Rafael, will offer crumble cake doughnuts, wheat-free doughnuts, doughnut sundaes, dirty horchatas and affogatos; Mamahuhu, which has a location in Mill Valley, will offer hot honey chicken sandwiches, tingly tofu sandwiches, sweet and sour chicken, sesame noodles and seaweed fries; Palmetto Superfoods, which recently opened a location in the Corte Madera Town Center, will offer açaí bowls, smoothies and oatmeal bowls; and San Rafael’s Pond Farm Brewing Co. will serve their beer.
Lifestyles Editor Colleen Bidwill contributed to this report.