We finally made it to the monthly food truck fest in Venice. We swwooped into LAX to pick up NM and then consumed copious quantities of mobile food: takoyaki truck for octopus balls (shape, not anatomy), phamish (for banh mi), frysmith truck (for some crazy beef and and chili concoction over french fries), grilled cheese truck (the signature: cheesy mac and rib) and coolhaus (mint between a chocolate chip and a chocolate cookie and pear sorbet between snickerdoodles). First fridays is more than just a cluster of food trucks along abbott kinney, but who needs any more than that?