damnlines for iPhoneLive lines & push alerts — freeGetdamnlines.comA curbside Filipino barbecue-skewer and fried fish ball cart run by co-founders VJ Navarro and Sebastien Shan, cited by Vice as booked solid for an entire month amid a wave of NYC Filipino pop-up demand.
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So Sarap operates as a mobile cart rather than a fixed storefront, run by co-founders VJ Navarro — whose father was a street food vendor in the Philippines — and Sebastien Shan, both furloughed from their jobs during the pandemic, per Vice.
Booking demand runs well ahead of availability: Vice reported the cart was "booked for the entire month of October, with events in Manhattan and Queens," and co-founder Sebastien Shan noted its September appearances were concentrated at the Kabisera coffee shop to support that business.
Patterns as reported by press and regulars — not measured by damnlines.
Reservations: Booked pop-up appearances; no standing walk-in location.
Walk-ins: Depends on the day's pop-up location; no fixed storefront.
There's no walk-up wait to describe since it's a mobile pop-up cart; the constraint is availability, which Vice reported was fully booked a month at a time across Manhattan and Queens events.
It operates via booked pop-up appearances rather than walk-up service at a single location, with dates filling up a month in advance per Vice; no direct booking link is established from this source.
You can attend whichever pop-up appearance it's booked for on a given day, but there's no fixed walk-in address — check where the cart is set up, per Vice.
Sources: Vice