The fastest, cheapest, frequently best food on Sacramento's streets.
Vendors, food trucks and stalls: the cheapest, fastest, frequently best food in Sacramento.
Midtown Farmers Market on 20th Street, midtown Sacramento, runs Saturday year-round with 30 to 50 prepared-food stalls turning out walk-and-eat plates.
Try: Prepared-food stalls from the 200-vendor Saturday market
Kin Thai at the MARRS building on 20th Street, midtown Sacramento, is the city's Michelin Recommended Thai street-eatery counter with Southern Thai plates.
Try: Thai street food
Taqueria Jalisco on 16th Street, midtown Sacramento, opened 1974 as the city's first taqueria, the long-running counter for asada tacos, mulitas and barbacoa.
Try: Asada tacos, mulitas, barbacoa, asada fries
La Esperanza on Franklin Boulevard in South Sacramento is the long-running Mexican counter and taqueria, daily 07:00 start, the city's morning birria stop.
Try: Tacos al pastor, carnitas, asada plates
Tacos La Piedad on Northgate Boulevard, Natomas Sacramento, runs street tacos plus mariscos, ceviche tostadas and shrimp cocktails daily 10:00 to 20:00.
Try: Street tacos, ceviche tostadas, shrimp cocktails
Pho Bac Hoa Viet on Stockton Boulevard in South Sacramento opened 1991 as the city's defining pho counter, the family operation across Sacramento sites.
Try: Pho, banh mi, Vietnamese rice noodle soup
Soi Alley Eats on X Street in midtown Sacramento runs Laotian and Thai street food in a hidden alley between 27th and 28th near Asha Urban Baths.
Try: Laotian and Thai street food
Laos Kitchen on Franklin Boulevard in South Sacramento opened 2012 as the small family Laotian operation, the city's defining Laotian street-food kitchen.
Try: Laotian sticky rice, larb, papaya salad, grilled meats