Chefs from Vanguard and Underground Food Collective Join Forces for Pop-Up Restaurant

Chefs from Vanguard and Underground Food Collective Join Forces for Pop-Up Restaurant

Shay Linkus and Jonny Hunter will serve up Salvadoran and American street food in front of The Hotel Foster on March 26.

Vanguard’s Shay Linkus and Madison chef Jonny Hunter (whose Underground Food Collective operates Forequarter Restaurant) are combining cooking power this Saturday, March 26, for a pop-up restaurant in Milwaukee. The chefs will park the big, silver Underground Food Collective truck in front of The Hotel Foster (2028 E. North Ave.) at 7 p.m.

They will serve food until they run out. The menu is short and sweet: four kinds of Salvadoran stuffed masa cough cakes called pupusas (varieties: queso, pork and blue corn, duck and chili, and veggie and blue corn), two burgers, and a wheatberry-radish salad. The pupusas come with what pupusas should come with: curtido (cabbage salad), salsa and cream, or escabeche. March 26, from 7 p.m.; outside The Hotel Foster.

Ann Christenson has covered dining for Milwaukee Magazine since 1997. She was raised on a diet of casseroles that started with a pound of ground beef and a can of Campbell's soup. Feel free to share any casserole recipes with her.