GIGA GRANADA HILLS

My ordering technique at the food truck fest: going up to each truck's window and saying, "Gimme the thing that's gonna make me go 'MMMMMM!'" And it turns out that was a winning strategy. The only truck I didn't use that line on was the meatball truck Great Balls On Tires, where I switched to, "Hurry, stuff your balls in my mouth!" What? Oh, please, get your mind out of the gutter, people! Really, I'm surprised at you, Granada Hills. I'm just talking about eating their meat! Verily I say to thee, Clint, Michael (a GH homeboy!) and their crew had the best balls I've ever tasted. And as for the double entendres the truck's name lends itself to — they've even got "Best Balls In L.A.!" painted on their hood — apparently, the gag never gets old. After cracking a few extremely obvious jokes with the Great Balls crew that got more laughs than I expected, I asked, "Aren't you tired of this stuff by now?...

The Crepe'n Around Crepe Truck will be returning to Granada Hills tonight! In what we're hoping may become a regular stop, Crepe'n Around will bring their love, and their lovely crepes to the corner of Chatsworth and Zelzah tonight from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. "It's a family adventure," says Jamey, who, with his wife and sister-in-law, started rolling out their crepe truck just four weeks ago. "My wife wanted to start a sweets truck, but I didn't think there would be enough foot traffic for only sweets. Then we came up with the crepes idea, because we'd lived in France for a while, and with crepes you can do both sweet and lunch and dinner items." The couple lived in France while Jamey's wife Eileen attended Le Cordon Bleu to learn the art of baking, and it was Eileen who created the truck's menu, whose big hit on the savory side has been the maple braised pork crepe with toasted walnuts. "But sometimes the chicken's a hit,...