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The Entire Food Lineup at Coachella 2019, Revealed

The annual music festival continues to one-up itself in the eating department

by Matthew Kang@mattatouille Mar 28, 2019, 11:00am PDT

Vegan bowl at Coachella 2018 — Vegan nachos at Coachella

Matthew Kang is the Lead Editor of Eater LA. He has covered dining, restaurants, food culture, and nightlife in Los Angeles since 2008. He's the host of K-Town, a YouTube series covering Korean food in America, and has been featured in Netflix's Street Food show.

Coachella, the massive music festival out in Indio every spring, comes back this year with a food lineup as impressive as its music. Many of the same vendors that made a splash in previous years will return, though some surprises remain for this year, but the big change this year is a Postmates “pickup” where festival goers can preorder dishes from a number of restaurants (sadly, no delivery).

Big new entrants this year are Echo Park’s Konbi, whose Japanese convenience store katsu sandos ruled Instagram last year, Hawkin’s House of Burgers, Tacos 1986 (Main VIP), Freedman’s (Main VIP), Madre (also in VIP), Love Hour (a smash burger spot that popped up recently at Smorgasburg), and Curtis Stone’s Gwen (which also resides in VIP). This year it seems the vendor mix is a little tighter, a little more edited and slightly less #branded, though the inevitable Instagram bait like Sweetfin, Salt & Straw, and Fuku come back to flood social media for a few weekends in April.

Other highlights include the return of PDTiki, a Tiki-inspired speakeasy found somewhere in the event grounds, and a full pop-up restaurant from Curtis and Luke Stone, with reservations available on OpenTable.

Finally, anyone looking to nab a seat at the more exclusive Outstanding in the Field, a full dinner with chefs doing a four-course meal, can reserve one here.

Here’s the full Coachella food and drink lineup

General Admission

Fat Dragon

Silver Lake’s new school Chinese restaurant will serve this amazing-looking orange chicken burrito, in addition to chow mein and veggie egg rolls.

Van Leeuwen Ice Cream

NYC’s famous ice cream shop, which will serve both dairy and loaded vegan ice creams in fresh cones.

Hawkin’s House of Burgers

Classic South LA burger stand serving beef burgers, turkey burgers, veggie burgers, and this monster of a dish called the Whipper, which comes with double cheese and patties, sausage, and pastrami.

Vegatinos

Vegan Mexican street food, which sets up a stand outside of Donut Friend in Highland Park on Thursdays and at Woodman & Saticoy in Panaroma City on Fridays.

Konbi

Echo Park’s popular Japanese convenience store-style sandwiches comes to Coachella for the first time and they’ll be serving an egg salad sandwich, pork katsu sando, and a green salad.

Cheezus

Sweetfin

Ramen Hood

Ms. Chi

Hanjip

Pizza by Round 2

Matchabar

La Mill Coffee

Fuku

Beer Barn

Beer Belly

A craft beer bar in Koreatown (and Long Beach). Fried oreos and beer, anyone?

Fuku

A fried chicken spot from David Chang, which returns this year after debuting at the festival last year. Think of it as an upgraded Chick-Fil-A. Fuku seems to be everyone along the East Coast, but this is the only time and place to get it on the West Coast until Chang brings Fuku over to the best coast.

Square Peg

Brisket sandwiches, pulled pork, jalapeno and cheddar sausages, and more from Bruce Kalman (Knead Pasta Bar) and Tyler Anderson.

Top Round

800 Degrees

Trejos Tacos

The Cabin

Everything to order from Postmates at Coachella

A note about Postmates situation at Coachella. There will be two places to pick up: one at General Admission and another at the Main VIP. The app will note which station to grab each order.

Monty’s Good Burger

This vegan burger spot in Koreatown comes to the festival to the first time.

A vegan burger, fries, and soda shown in a promo shot with colorful artistry on the paper. — Monty’s Good Burger

Top Round

Hanjip