Welcome to the British Street Food Newsletter: Summer

Images from The Gaztronome

For The Love Of Food will be the biggest (and best) street food show the world has ever seen. Over one crazy weekend, in September, the finest traders will be cooking up a storm to win the public’s vote in the British Street Food Awards – supported this year by Trinity Kitchen. But they’ll be doing it alongside street food crazy golf, artists at work, vintage caravans on ‘the Yorkshire village green’, robot making, chef demos with celebrity chefs and street food big wigs, reggae sound systems, live reviews of the newspapers from top journalists at the Independent on Sunday, and one truly AMAZING live music performance… Entrance to For The Love Of Food – which runs from September 26-28 in Leeds – will include tasters of craft beer and smoothies (if we can blooming well find craft smoothies) chosen specially to match the traders’ menus. Read More…

Mark Hix came and judged the British Street Food Awards in 2010. And ended up buying a Citroen H van and setting up Fish Dog. Now comes Jamie Oliver…

Jamie Oliver has always loved the idea of food trucks. It’s just one of the reasons why he lent us his cobbles for the British Street Food Awards back in 2012. He has his own pizza van (the Cock In Cider… say no more), and various vehicles parked up around the place that are always, somehow, in the process of conversion. So when he was looking for a be-spoke mobile event catering vehicle for Barbecoa, his high-end barbecue style restaurant in London, he was bound to do it right. Read More…

Veggie Scarian?

It isn’t easy to cook vegetarian – it takes more technique to produce something that pleases a ‘spoiled’ palate. So to eat Fresh Rootz’s pakoras sprinkled with edible flowers (above) and Rainbo’s gyoza with sundried tomato and tofu recently was a treat. Find out how to get some of their favourite recipes Here…

Pop Quiz?

Cakes are old-fashioned, comfort-purveying nursery food. Perhaps one of the reasons they lack profile is because we live in the age of the restaurant chef, and cakes most definitely belong within the realm of home cooking. Here at British Street Food we love our cakes – which is why we’ve created a street food range. More Here…

Time For Tea!

Love Kerb – the collective that represent the interests of the best mobilers in London. They are about so much more than money – they’re about togetherness, and a willingness to share a spanner. To hold the London heats of the British Street Food Awards with them (above) was a dream. And one HECK of a weekend. More Here…