Chef Pelle Creative Catering and Cuisine

I really love this food truck. They have comfort food when I need a food hug, or really healthy food when I’m in the mood for that. I’ve tried the following dishes:
Swedish meatballs — I asked to replace the mash potatoes with salad and they did. Delicious.
Tunnbrodsrulle — it’s a good mix of salty and sweet from the house pickled cucumers and sauce
Crab melt — a little too salty for me
Salmon crostini — My favorite dish from this truck. The salmon they use is really high quality and the light mustardy dressing that goes on top is perfect for it
Also check out that excellent health score!

Wowwww. My friend and I were visiting from Seattle and were on the hunt for life changing food and hit the jackpot here.
I had the crab and shrimp melt and it is worth every penny. It was full of cheesy awesomeness. I can now go home happy. Seriously worth it. It’s pretty big you could even share it with someone too.
Thanks for the awesome food! I wish I could get this in Seattle.

Pelle is a great chef! We catered a buffet from him for two parties and the food was sophisticated and delicious! He’s really flexible and listens to what you want. Thanks Pelle for making our two midsummer parties so successful.
I also had food in his truck several times and I love the Swedish meatballs!

This truck rolled on into the parking lot of SFGH during lunch one day. It was a glorious day. The sun was out. The birds were chirping. The gds came together to bring us this glorious masterpiece called the crab melt. Oh my deliciousness.
It was mouthwatering. It was tasty. It was satisfying. It was large. I was satisfied.
Only downside– I needed a nap afterwards!

One of the best food trucks I’ve eaten at recently.
The rosemary pulled pork sliders were amazing! Simple and delicious.
I must find this food truck again.

I got the tunnsbrødrulle ($ 9) because it was the oddest thing on the menu (why go to the Scandinavian food truck just to get a crab melt or fish n chips?). Hot dog, mashed potatoes, shrimp salad, dilled cucumbers, etc. I thought maybe I’d get the hot dog and mash in the bread with the rest on the side but nope — it was all mixed up together in the flat bread. Sounds gross but it actually tasted really good even if it was super messy to eat. I make a potato salad with dilled cucumbers so it’s very similar.
Nordic hubby swears it’s authentic though in my experience they don’t usually stuff their sandwiches like that (it’s an American thing).

I love this food truck! My go to is the crab and shrimp melt, it’s seriously a fancy upgraded grilled cheese kinda sandwich I totally dig it! I’ve also had the icelandic cod fish and chips, also can’t go wrong!
I usually find them by chance at soma streat food park but I wish there was an easier way to stalk them out lol.

I’ve had two excellent meals from Chef Pelle and I look forward to more! First were his PHENOMENAL garlic/​plum/​rosemary pork sliders. I have no idea if these are ‘nordic’ or not, but they are simply the best pulled-​pork sliders I have tasted– from a food truck or otherwise. At $ ⁷⁄₂ sliders– great value! Next visit I tried an excellent spinach/​arugula salad– hearty and filling with a strawberry vinaigrette dressing. Chef Pelle’s options will keep me coming back for more for sure!

Interesting offerings. First Nordic/​Scandinavian food truck I’ve seen. Tried it at SOMA StrEat Food.
Had the crab and shrimp melt with dill, scallions, and melted mozzarella on a roll. Delicious, warm, and oozy.
Service was friendly and helpful. Wait time was decent for a freshly made, warmed sandwich.
Four stars for first visit. Will try again and possibly upgrade.

Nordic food truck was amazing
I’ve been to Sweden and can confirm the authenticity of this mobile gourmet
I had the aquavit salmon and I have to recommend it
5 stars
The chef is from Sweden even.

Chef Pelle offers Nordic Cuisine in a food truck. passed on the icelandic fish & chip (11) and swedish meatballs (8)
locale: soma street food (¹¹⁄₁₁)
eats: grilled lamb chops (10)
–4 pieces of grilled tender lamb chops, not much taste
cucumber yoghurt dip made the difference.
–french fires, the frozen kind, above average
–some salad, pretty good.
footnotes:
–expect fresh tasting food here.
–quick service, 5 minutes?

Nordic cuisine on wheels… and I think the only Nordic food truck in the Bay Area. The man behind the truck, Chef Pelle, hails from Sweden. The truck offers Icelandic fish & chips, salads, sandwiches, Swedish meatballs and an intriguing Swedish creation called tunnsbrodsrulle.
* Tunnsbrodsrulle ($ 8): A deluxe beef/​pork hot dog with creamy mashed potatoes, creamy shrimp salad, pickled cucumbers, dill and crispy roasted shallots wrapped in a soft thin flatbread. It’s a pretty crazy concoction which is something like a Swedish burrito with Shrimp Louie and super comforting. I loved the contrasting textures — creamy potatoes and shrimp salad, fresh dill, crunchy roasted shallots, tangy and crunchy pickled cucumbers, savory juicy hot dog. The shrimp salad had a sweet Thousand Island/​Shrimp Louie like dressing. The flatbread was softer than lavash. The buttery mashed potatoes were really good. Tunnbrodsrulle is very filling and super tasty.
Chef Pelle’s truck is the only place in the Bay Area where you can get tunnsbrodsrulle.

These guys have a truck in the SoMA street food park and while everyone else was trying to include a donut into their menu, these guys did not and that damn crab /​shrimp melt looked delicious.
Here’s the twist, it was totally delicious. If you’re in the park and you see Pelle, stop by, get some stuff, more than raring to try their other stuff now.

Signs.
Love this movie:
Love this dish: Cured salmon crostini with sweet mustard glaze complemented with a pear side salad. Generous portion. So much brilliant flavor. Not so much price ($ 8).
Discovered while plotting a trip to Scandinavia. Consider it a sign.
M. Night Shyamalan’s film quality has unfortunately declined. Pretty Chef Pelle’s culinary quality will only go up.

Food truck review only.
Tasty Nordic favorites like Swedish meatballs with mashed potatoes, dill pickled vegetables and other things IKEA has introduced to North America made in a truck. The meatballs (which they say are housemade) were absolutely delicious – the perfect thick texture without being too dry – and the accompanying gravy was very tasty. The mashed potatoes were also good, soft and creamy without being buttery. I also got a side of fries to try. They were thick and starchy, but probably something you could find anywhere. The meatballs + mashed potatoes combo was $ 7 and the side of fries was $ 2, so this definitely won’t break the bank. Hope to see them again at Soma Streatfood Park.

Now a food truck!
Dear Chef Pelle,
You had me at «Swedish Chef.»
The Swedish Chef Pelle, apparently a caterer, brought his food truck to SoMA today and I had a delicious smoked salmon entrée on crostini, that came with an apple pear side salad. This may be the ONLY food truck offering pickled herring to the masses! (I will order that next time.) I will continue to eat my way through the menu.
And now I apologize for running my review through the en-​Chef-​er-​izer:
Noo a fuud troock!
Deer Cheff Pelle-​a,
Yuoo hed me-​a et «Svedeesh Cheff.»
Zee Svedeesh Cheff Pelle-​a, epperently a ceterer, bruooght hees fuud troock tu SuMA tudey und I hed a deleeciuoos smuked selmun intree-​a oon crusteeni, thet ceme-​a veet un epple-​a peer seede-​a seled. Thees mey be-​a zee OoNLY fuud troock ooffffereeng peeckled herreeng tu zee messes! (I veell oorder thet next teeme-​a.) I veell cunteenooe-​a tu iet my vey thruoogh zee menoo.
Bork Bork Bork!

Chef Pelle catered our wedding reception at the Swedenborgian Church. He was great to work with, very professional, and he and his staff did just a fantastic job the day of our event. Food was all exceptional and just as expected. He is a true and talented professional, and I highly recommend him. Thanks again for everything, Pelle.

When you plan a wedding, the first thing you think of is: «How in the sam hell will I FEED everyone?!» As if I’m going to bust out my Kitchen-​aid in the middle of my first dance or something — HA! My mother and a very good family friend did some self-​catering, but my mom had one caveat: we hire a caterer to make this a classy affair.
Naturally, of course, I called Chef Pelle. Maybe it was because when I was bartending, he would hire me out when he catered. I watched him crank out the most amazing meals and appetizers, for all sorts of parties. We worked together for over a year before I went into the working world of corporate business.
I held off writing my review for so long because I figured that if I wrote it from the perspective of one of his staff (who sampled everything), it would seem a little bias. From the perspective of a BRIDE, I couldn’t have asked for anyone better to cater my wedding. I told him the theme (flamenco — therefore, Spanish), and he gave me a menu within days. I barely had to talk to him; a couple phone calls over the course of six months to arrange a meeting at the wedding site, and meeting at the wedding site — that’s it. Everything else he took care of because he is an experienced professional.
As his staff, I love Pelle. As a customer, I love him even more. If you want phenomenal food and an experience you’ll never forget, hire him.
Here is the menu:
Bourbon herb cured beef on a crostini with a garlic saffron aioli
Chilled fish and shrimp ceviche in cucumber cups
Mini spanikopita with feta and spinach
Bite sized risotto cakes with sundried tomatoes, basil and goat cheese
Mushrooms filled with spicy italian sausage
Spicy shrimp and smoked salmon in bite sized herbed phyllo cups with tobiko caviar
Lemon grass garlic grilled chicken sates with a peanut curry dip
Did that make your mouth water? I’m hungry now, dammit!
If I ever throw a party and need a caterer, or if I know anyone who is asking for recommendations, I will ALWAYS recommend Pelle.

Chef Pelle is INCREDIBLE. The food he prepared for our wedding was the best my husband and I have ever eaten (and that’s coming from a total food snob). Two years later, our friends and family continue to remind us how «wowed» they were by the quality and amount of food at our wedding. They didn’t just get a small «taste» of wonderful filet mignon appetizers or flowerlets of halibut, they got them in abundance, and they LOVED it.
The best part about Chef Pelle, aside from his incredible food, is that he is rational, honest, and flexible — things that can be difficult to find in an event caterer. After finding him as the highest rated caterer on citysearch, and subsequently checking his webpage, I was sure Chef Pelle was out of our price range, but thought I’d call quickly to double check. Chef Pelle answered the phone right away, and my faith in the wedding industry was restored. Not only did Chef Pelle create a custom menu for us and work within our budget, he also thought that a corkage and cake cutting fees were just as ridiculous as we did. That’s refreshing.
Chef Pelle was professional, and very upfront about menus, costs, and the process for getting from A-​Z. He penciled us in while we secured our venue choice, then followed up with a contract as soon as we confirmed that we were ready to move forward. He helped keep us on track with submitting our guest count, entrée selections, and selecting our rentals, and made our wedding planning experience easy and fun. We were in great hands. Better still, Chef Pelle’s food is consistently amazing. I’ve been lucky enough to have Chef Pelle’s food at two events now, and I can’t wait until the next!

I am so excited and honored to be the first to review — I’m hoping more Unilocalers catch on to how amazing Chef Pelle is.
Based out of the Norwegian Club in San Francisco (located on Fell and Clay… who knew!), he had catered two of our friends’ weddings previously and we liked his catering, for the most part (see note below), which were served buffet style. During our first meeting, it was clear to us that he has done plenty of weddings before and was used to doing everything himself (I think he was pleasantly surprised that we had a coordinator to take on some of the work he was used to doing). The first tasting was AMAZING. We went a bit overboard and ordered a Filet Mignon stuffed with Lobster, which we felt was too much for the wedding meal, but delicious. He also pulled out a few things that he just happened to have in his kitchen, so we also got to taste a few appetizers, salad, and another entrée as well — all just delicious. Then he quoted us the price. I mean, seriously. When he was pricing things for us, he had this worried tone in his voice that it was a little expensive, but he was quoting us about HALF of what other caterers were charging for the same thing. With our limited budget and faced with his good cooking, we of course hired him for the wedding.
Of course our wedding was beautiful, we had a great time, we looked great and music was good — overall I think we had an amazing wedding, if I may say so myself — but the FIRST thing any of our guests say to us about their experience was how amazing the food was at our wedding. After dinner, my husband and I went around the tables to say our hellos and we were met with the gushing review of how amazing the food was… oh and congratulations. :)
Despite the initial quote, we still budgeted a few THOUSAND dollars more than what he ended up charging us at the end of the night. We also decided to do a sit-​down meal (more costly usually than buffet style due to a larger number of staff required) but again, still affordable within our very limited budget.
Perhaps the one negative thing is that when asked what his «style» is (since I personally wanted something a chef would enjoy making, therefore the food would be good), he just kept it very open and said «I can do anything.» Some of the food that we didn’t enjoy as much at our friends’ weddings were special ordered recipes he wasn’t used to. But sticking to his comfort level in terms of cooking (which is already vast by the way), everything was excellent. He was able to incorporate some Norwegian appetizers for my husband’s family and have a little Asian flare for my side. The ingredients he used were top notch (thank you California) and despite the fact that what we ordered could have been a little heavy — some were fried, some deeply sauced — but tasted clean, fresh and light. Even our vegan guests raved about his food.
He’s a well-​rounded and experienced chef. Take it from me, book him now before he reads this review (and hopefully countless more glowing reviews to come) and raises his price to a more appropriate level for his skill.