High-tech foodies: burger robots and Cybertruck coffee
Cuisine reflects the landscape. In colder climates, hearty stews are a big part of the food culture. In coastal areas, fish is prepared in a myriad of ways. And in Silicon Valley, entrepreneurs are using technology to innovate what we’re eating.
This week, I talked with Liz Truong, whose love for food automation and her family drove her to invent Burger Bots, which will soon be launching at her restaurant Breaking Dawn and soon-to-open dinner concept First Born. I also talked with former tech employees Ming Wood and Mabel Yeung on their unique business concept: coffee served out of the back of a Cybertruck.
It doesn’t get more Silicon Valley than this.
Stay tasty,
Adrienne
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Cafe chicheme at Moonwake Coffee Roasters
A coffee pop-up built out of the back of a Cybertruck selling espresso topped with corn almost sounds like a fever dream. But I assure you it’s real, and you can find it at West Coast Farmers Market in Cupertino on Sundays.
The brainchild of a former Meta project manager and Tesla software engineer, Moonwake Coffee Roasters was established long before the Cybertruck and will open a brick and mortar in West San Jose later this year.
I decided to order the cafe chicheme ($7), an iced espresso with vanilla, cinnamon and honey topped with a sweet corn cream. The iced espresso was smooth and very lightly sweetened but was a bit acidic for my taste (I prefer a lower-acidity espresso bean.) While the corn cream was very tasty, the coffee and cinnamon overpowered the corn flavor. I wouldn’t order this particular drink again, but I’m very interested in trying out their other beverages, like their Milo mocha.
Click here to read more about Moonwake Coffee Roasters. To see Moonwake’s Cybertruck in action, visit @peninsulafoodist on Instagram.
Moonwake Coffee Roasters, 21250 Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino; Instagram: @moonwakecoffeeroasters. Open Sunday 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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