The embargo is lifted, I’m finally allowed to tell you about the other street food collective. First rumoured sometime last year, last Saturday was the official launch of Brum Yum Yum.
BYY will be held for the first time on 13 April, 12-6pm in Kings Heath, outside the church on the main road.
This puts it pretty much slap bang in the centre of Kings Heath, in the same location as the farmers market (physical not temporal) and right on the main shopping street. It’s officially licensed by Birmingham City Council, and it will involve a lot more street food folks than Digbeth Dining Club. An evening at DDC will see three traders all do comfortably. This show is set to host ten of us.
Last week’s preview event was a chance to meet the press, talk about the product and generally get all PR or the situation. Now clearly the Wocky is awesome all by himself. But it doesn’t hurt to make sure he is in the right place at the right time, and then let the toasties do the rest. Currently, however, he is still in bits, in Leicester. 4 weeks after he was due to be fixed. So with neither toasties nor Beast we didn’t have a whole lot to show for ourselves, and with only two days notice, we decided to play our final trump card.
Yes, like everything else, miniature cold open-faced toasted sandwiches look better on a cake stand.
As it happens, due to a series of unfortunate events that were thankfully unrelated to the Beast and his lack of engine, there was not a great deal of press in attendance. Instead it was a cosy get-together of the local street food traders, who are without exception utterly lovely people and make me proud to be one of them. We got to share stories, chat to some very pleasant Brum-based blogging types and generally enjoy an afternoon amongst friends with snacks provided by ourselves and a few of the other traders.
Open faced cold miniature toasted sandwiches, also known as “a mouthful”, are not something we will ever be serving from the van at festivals, but they were useful for getting all the bits of a toastie out in the fresh air and letting people see them. Especially when Barny has cheffed at them a little and they both look and taste lovely, which I think made up for the fact that we had to keep explaining that was not what we actually sold, and that cooking miniature toasties to order would have been impractical in the back room of a pub.
Since then the buzz on twitter has been fantastic, with us congratulating one another on having been generally delightful if tipsy company on the day and the twittersphere at large excited to try what Kings Heath has to offer. It’s an exciting event to be a part of, right from the start. To scientifically quote the great poets D:ream, and therefore by extension Prof Brian Cox: things can only get better.
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