The fall of food trucks
Sandwich Cookies
Finger Foods
Food Halls
Alternative Sandwiches
The Gluten backlash
Fast food bringing back the classics
North, East, South and West Burger Migration
YouTube Chefs

The 2 for a $1 homerun pies will be the new "cup cake"

Everything will be on lollipop sticks.

epicmeal type items in restaurants will appear as a backlash to health foods

one could only hope

corn

Where I live its always corn season!

Have you seen all the barren fields?  Yah, corn is really 'in season'

Mezcal is going to be huge this year.

Nice! Mrs. is already on the corn food trend!

Pies in general tried this year but couldn't take off like predicted since its more of a seasonal trend.

Food trucks giving way to cafeteria / vending machine style gourmet food store fronts. All the goods without human interaction.... I can only dream.

Have artsy fartsy hotdogs caught on here? There's a new little shop that opened in the Avenues, but they are dead dead dead all the time...

Artisanal corn dogs?! I could totally go for some artisanal corn dogs!!

3 minutes ago Takahara D. says:
Cheese Steak Trucks Will Dominate The West Coast
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i can only hope...for all the great food in sf the post bar time eating scene is suprisingly shitty.  i can either get mexican or some janky food from mel's dinner, a late night cheese steak truck would be tits.

Mezcal. YUM

@jillian, did you eat the worm?

Brad, I don' eat meat, but I will always make the exception for the worm.

I think I walked into my own pun there.

lol jillian

I say the next big food fad of 2012 will be that little hunk of fat in a can of pork 'n' beans. Let's see how long it takes for the hipster foodies to go back and edit their blogs from September so that they can say they were into it before anyone.

I am hoping the cupcakes and frozen yogurt will die down soon. I love to try out more food trucks.

tiny scotty weiner, served in boring sauce.

Yeah, after me missing it/bitching about the lack of it here for 5 years after moving from Texas, Mezcal seems to FINALLY start getting the attention it deserves in the Bay Area.  I also see okra finally showing up in non-indian places lately.

A new super antioxidant discovered in the weeds pissed on by homeless people in Golden Gate Park later to be harvested by homeless people to support quad-gender tri-flex indentured swag-hags foundation . Sold at Whole Food's promising buyers pure organic protection from homeless piss on the grass using phytonutrient piss-protection reverse osmosis kelp-crap-sap... Ya :)

Dips will be huge this year

I agree w/Clayton.....also sold at the Berkeley Bowl!

Gluten-free non-dairy non-processed non-HFCS organic sustainable gruel? Oh wait, we weren't talking about hipster food were we. Carry on.

Injectable, inhalable food.  Restaurants will be like opium dens, with diners mainlining or snorting the food.

Kill your own restaurants.  Live animals in cages and diner will kill skin butcher and cook whatever they want.

That is totes weird, MPK.    Surly a coincidence...  Right???  right?    You know if the list was posted on 16 different click thru pages, Frycook would have poached it.  um..  posted it.

(ha!  Surly!)

what did *YOU* (specifically *YOU*, Saucetard) mean by the phrase "N,S,E,W burger migration"?  what does that even mean?  it doesn't make any sense.  It would be really weird  if  some other super clued in, original thinking, super awesome foodi dude came up with exactly the same meaningles phrase, dontcha think?

I think we can add "Plagarism:  It is what is for dinner"  to you list of the up and  coming, boring, thought and originality free foods for "thought" that will be sweeping the nation in 2012.  right?

Jinx, mpk!!!

You can google any food trends and get the same things pretty much little guy

Yes, Scotty.  duh.  Big "boy".

now is your chance, foodie.  What did *you* mean by "n,s,e,w burger migration".  Enlighten us, pease?  here is your chance to actually *say* something that has your own stamp and meaning to it, as opposed to just cutting and pasting and taking other people's ideas and passing them off as your own.  you know...  Like, your chance to contribute intelllectually to yelp talk sf.

Can tell us more about this burger migration?  How has it been rampining up, and why is  2012 the year?  What are the new burger hotspots, the trend setting styles, and where are they migrating to?  Why?  are there economic reasons?  is it the internet?  the new hovercraft technology fom Latvia?  drop. Some. Knowledge. or. post. citations. you. Boring. Copy. Pasta. Ninja.

I can predict a burger in Scotty's near future.  Possibly migrating to his stomach.

Sorry, MPK.  if you didn't give such good head, I'd try harder to stay out of it.  ; )

joe G!!!  Merry Christmas!

Merry XXXMas! Mikey dee!!

I predict eggs in everything and they call it gourmet and interesting. Wait, already happened.

Ricotta Regatta

Scotty you thought of almost everything. Perhaps Chinese food will be the new sushi of Nor Cal.

Cafeteria food

That one already hit and is AWESOME!!!

No more cake pops, burger pops

North south east west tofu invasion

ox-drawn food carts

coprophagia

ferret-milk chocolate

In order for the food truck trend to die, yuppies would need to cease to exist. I believe their popularity is peaking though.

Oh I know, expect to see more low end food dumbed up ala "the melt" and gourmet burgers...

SF be prepared to have someone rip a new asshole out of you.

grilled aerosol-cheese sandwiches

medicinal trucks......

Alferd Packer's fleet of anthropophagical food trucks

Spam -- fried, nuked, baked, steamed, tar tar, BBQ and . . .

Everything wrapped in spring roll paper stuff

Indian style nachos

I actually do the spring roll at home. Next time springroll, game hen, soybean, lettuce wrap.

White trash cuisine;

Grilled American cheese sandwiches
dipped in ranch dressing

Processed meats made in the USA

French's yellow mustard

kool aid

Cause Oscar Myer has a way with
b-o-l-o-g-n-a

Boring frycooks
Alternative Sandwiches

Crappy fast food places competing to improve their menus with "healthier" options while still using crappy ingredients, lol

More juice bars please

I was told something about horse meat being sold... I do not even want to ask. I guess my Mother heard it on the news or some kind of current event thing. If this is true that would be very sad. I know it's done in other countries but the US? no thank you.

Foie gras is going to be HUGE in the first half of the year leading up to the ban in July (at which point any self respecting chef will then be serving it off menu).

^^^ oh you're SO right! Any "self respecting" chef would absolutely violate the ban on such a disgusting food to support the continual waistline expansion on hillbilly foodies like you. I mean duhhh, right?

I can't tell who;'s being serious and sarcastic.  From now on I'm guarding my predictions because someone is going to steal them and take credit for them on some stupid Yelp thread.

Meat!!!

deep fried creamed corn on a stick

I'm not giving you my ideas.

My 2012 food related prediction is anyone who asks "where can I get ___ like where I'm from??" gets a kick in the jaw.  You moved here, learn to embrace new food or fly your lame a$$ back to wherever you're from.
We don't care what burritos are like in SoCal or what chicken fried raccoon is like in Texas.

I wish a sauce trend would spring up. I could totally go for some new sauces

I predict more food threads. Hopefully not by Spammy Sauce.

I hope there's a good crop of heirloom tomatoes next year

Ok, Scotty copy/pasted someone's food predictions.
So what?

I'll help you create a sauce trend, Loli

Far out! Thanks, Melissa!

Also, I think small game will become popular once more- some trendy cook/blogger lady who shoots her own SQUIRREL is already cool.  I plan to raise Quail this Spring, and I see Rabbit and Squab becoming more common and popular.  

I'm into the Rabbit and Quail;  Squab, I have never had.

Sean "Keepin' it Dapper" M. says:
^^^ oh you're SO right! Any "self respecting" chef would absolutely violate the ban on such a disgusting food to support the continual waistline expansion on hillbilly foodies like you. I mean duhhh, right?
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Yes, damned all those world renowned chefs, err I mean hillbillies and their foie gras.  It's fine if you don't care for the stuff, but when you start telling other people that they can't eat a food that's been a staple in gastronomical history for 4,000 years, just because YOU are squeamish, well then you're just being an asshole.  Foie gras will still be had at any number of places in California off menu, just as it was in Chicago after the ban, before common sense and good taste prevailed when they ended the ban.

Wendys in japan is now serving the foie gras burger. Me want

You know, I like foie gras, but the last time I had it on a burger I thought it was a bit of a waste. They're fun for the novelty once in a while, but there are better uses for it IMHO.

Oh, damn...Tex stole 100 from J-Nasty!

muahaha!!!

chili dogs
peanut butter and jellyfish sammiches
NORTH BURGER MIGRATION *ONLY*
hula hoops
bacon and handlebar moustaches and skinny jeans:  retro resurgence!!!

chili!!

I only eat local fresh burgers, not migrated burgers

Cat food as haute cuisine.

Tripe and pap and pablum will continue to be big.

Cake pops!
Sushi fusion
Healthier eating
Gluten free and organic popularity

"Xtreme Fiber"
How much can you handle?

Eating through the anus will be big in 2012

(talking through your ass is sooo 2011)

Veggies on a stick

^^^ any thread involving a pet

fried rabbit replaces fried chicken

ornamental aquariums transition into grow your own seafood aquafarms.......shrimp, sardines, etc.
Victory Aquariums?

More food trucks and even hipper ones

Tossed salads of many types

REAL living food-they bring a blueberry bush to your table

ROTI Buns will soon be available for sale in every other Froyo and Boba shop.

Black Market Foie Gras eateries will pop up, by invitation only. That's because It will be illegal to serve it come July 2012 in California.

Finger Sandwiches

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(made with actual roasted fingers in them)

Clementine "Officially Validated" P. says:
"Xtreme Fiber"
How much can you handle?

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You will see more Shabu Shabu self serve restos pop up
You will see more Ramen shops open
New Pho shops will continue to open in virtually every town and street corner.
New Designer Ice Cream shops will open, a la Bi-Rite/Slocumb, etc.  
Pupusas will grow in popularity.

Cosplay Themed restaurants will open in SF.

The word "Artisanal" will be overused and hyped everywhere.

There will be few if any Japanese owned restaurants left in the Bay Area. They will all be purchased by Koreans and Chinese, serving mayonnaise and teriyaki covered sushi rolls made by Hispanic chefs to oyster shooting white boys with Asian (Korean or Chinese) girlfriends.

That's sad.

^Wanugee: Hi !  ;-)

I'll go with Shabu Shabu and Ramen noodle places.

Uni popularity
True about few Japanese owned restaurants.
Pho and pad thai popularity
More Vietnamese/ French cuisine
Burmese restaurants!

crumpets

free-range scones

free-range Foie Gras

no joke -- this Spaniard has discovered the secret to encouraging wild geese to overfeed naturally and on natural foods, giving the foie gras an especially rich flavor profile:

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authentic fusion

Manifold Cooking for all-electric cars

Cannibalism.

The folks from Occupy Wall Street will develop a taste for the rich.

Soylent green pops

More Korean taco trucks

Vegan/vegetarian places seem to be on the outs, between the collapse of the Cafe Gratitude chain cafegratitude.com and Napa's Ubuntu going on "Sabbatical."

That's what happens after the Kentucky Derby?