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Not Quite 3 Weeks Old, The Beignet Truck Returns to Highland Park

The New Orleans-style food truck makes its second appearance at Tuesday's food truck line-up.

The first time Chris Bautista had a beignet—loosely translated from French into English as a "fritter"—was at the New Orleans-style Jazz Kitchen in Disneyland. The Los Angeles native loved the dish so much that it stuck in his head.

A year ago, during a trip to New Orleans, Bautista couldn't get enough of the beignet (pronounced bin•yay) style of French confectionary. So much so that he "felt the need to bring it to Los Angeles."

Which he has—replete in a food truck that he named The Beignet Truck.

On Tuesday, for the second week running, The Beignet Truck hitched its wagon off Figueroa and York during the weekly Highland Park food truck "carnival." Bautista, who launched The Beignet Truck on July 1, has been very pleased with the response from the community—and from Los Angeles in general.

"It's been very good so far," he told Highland Park-Mount Washington Patch. As soon as I launched the business and went on Facebook and Twitter, we started getting calls from people wanting to to see what we do and book us for parties.

Bautista's food truck is "very New Orleans," he said—"everything from the design to the style and how the coffee is prepared." Chicory root is added to the grounds, he explained, giving the brew a "very distinct taste that is hard to describe."


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