Positive, positive, the largest purpose anybody goes to Outdoors Lands is the music, however a really shut second is the stellar food and drinks lineup. In any case, you gotta keep fueled for the headliner units from Kendrick Lamar, Foo Fighters, and Odesza, particularly after a day of strolling across the Polo Fields at Golden Gate Park. That is the fifteenth yr of Outdoors Lands, with greater than 95 eating places and pop-ups serving meals on the competition, which runs from August 11 to 13.
Outdoors Lands will see plenty of eating places getting back from throughout San Francisco and the Bay Space for the three-day weekend, together with some new names on the music competition meals circuit — plus a few yet-to-launch eating places. San Francisco’s Um.ma, Sandy’s, Suppenkuche, Bodega SF, Sorrel, and Tacolicious, are all rejoining the lineup together with the East Bay’s Daytrip, Jo’s Fashionable Thai, Wahpepah’s Kitchen, and El Storage, amongst others.
Among the many eating places making their Outdoors Lands debut are Shuggie’s Trash Pie & Pure Wine, Horn Barbecue, Soiled Behavior, Lulu Berkeley, Parche, and the Kon-Tiki. New Mission restaurant Piglet & Co. can be making its “debut” on the competition, though technically chef Chris Yang and accomplice Marcelle Gonzales Yang navigated the competition final yr with their pop-up El Chino Grande. New pop-ups at Outdoors Lands embrace My Pal Fernando from chef Jacob Croom, and nonprofit La Cocina may even come again, this time with companies Alma y Sazon, Bocadito Colombian Snackeria, and Clandestina Cocina working because the La Cocina Taco Tour.
In the meantime, two different new meals distributors value searching for are Moon and the Lodge at Marconi, each of which have but to formally debut within the Bay Space. Moon is the upcoming new restaurant from Michelin-starred Sorrel set to open within the fall and billed as a laidback spot serving coastal California-Asian-inspired meals cooked over an open flame. At Outdoors Lands, the soon-to-be restaurant is serving skewers of harissa-spiced lamb and ginger beef, in addition to smashed chile cucumbers. The Lodge at Marconi is a new resort and restaurant in Tomales Bay run by Oliver Hospitality from Nashville; the Lodge will likely be serving two kinds of tater tots, a spicy model and a poke-loaded possibility.
The meals choices get fancier, in fact, particularly with the VIP part and uber-luxe, Ken Fulk-designed Golden Gate Membership. Kaiyo will serve Peruvian and Japanese meals corresponding to sushi rolls, karaage hen sandwiches, and Peruvian anticucho skewers within the VIP part, becoming a member of A16, Woodhouse Fish Co., World Connoisseur Catering, and Candy July. Over on the Golden Gate Membership, chef Ravi Kapur of Liholiho Yacht Membership, Tyler Florence of Miller & Lux, in addition to cooks Nancy Oakes and Dana Younkin of Boulevard will all be readily available to cook dinner for the discerning Golden Gate Membership crowd.
Outdoors Lands is preserving the small print of the beverage lineup underneath wraps till a later date, however to see the complete meals lineup, head to the Outdoors Lands web site.
