The SF Street Food Festival is rounding out your onslaught of August Festivals this weekend, and it is sure to be a crowded, good time. As always, it's taking place along Folsom Street between 22nd and 25th Street, and the fun happens on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. And like last year, now that the fest has grown and grown over the past four years, there's a whole bar area in the Cesar Chavez Elementary School parking lot. Admission is free, but you'll need to pay for your food and drinks, obviously.

Vendors include a ton of local restaurants (Central Kitchen, A16, Tacolicious, Nopalito, Lers Ros, to name a few) alongside La Cocina incubator businesses and popular street food vendors from around the Bay Area, all serving tasty bites of all kinds for $8 or less. Download the full festival guide and map right here.

ALSO, like last year, there is a Night Market party thing happening the night before, Friday, at the Alemany Farmer's Market (100 Alemany Blvd), from 6 to 10 p.m., and you can buy tickets for that here.

Below, some of the highlights from a preview event a couple weeks ago, including a doughnut burger, and some extra-delicious mini-cupcakes.

First: a delicious mini mole tamal from El Buen Comer.
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Here are those doughnut burgers, topped with umbrellas, from Hella Vegan Eats. The burgers are actually made out of beets, and stuff.
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These mini huaraches from El Huarache Loco were the bomb.
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Also delicious: mini versions of the Buffalo Blue Chicken Sandwiches that Zella's Soulful Kitchen will be slinging.
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And finally, these mini-cupcakes, from La Luna Cupcakes, were fucking amazing, especially the tres leches ones in the foreground — and we don't usually love cupcakes that much.
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Act accordingly...