Ranked shortlist · 10 of 32 food trucks and stands
Best food trucks and stands in San Diego
The 10 most notable food trucks and stands in San Diego, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Taco Picasso
4637 Market St
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.458, percentile 100 of 32
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2
Don Bravo Authentic Mexican Food
5504 La Jolla Blvd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.316, percentile 96.77 of 32
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3
American Flavors Food Truck
4637 Market St
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.232, percentile 93.55 of 32
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4
Mariscos Fili La Carreta
652 Broadway
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.027, percentile 90.32 of 32
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5
Mariscos Mi Gusto Es
4425 Home Ave
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.027, percentile 87.1 of 32
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6
Tamales Oaxaquenos
4129 University Ave
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.999, percentile 83.87 of 32
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7
SHAWARMA STATION
5096 Voltaire St
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 1.980, percentile 80.65 of 32
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8
Zoe's Place Food Truck
4637 Market St
listed by Foursquare Open Source Places and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 1.900, percentile 77.42 of 32
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9
God Save the Cuisine
1123 Island Ave
listed by Foursquare Open Source Places and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 1.900, percentile 74.19 of 32
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10
Blue Angels Food Truck
719 Cesar E. Chavez Pkwy
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 1.900, percentile 70.97 of 32
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).