Trade Secrets

Based on the title you probably have some expectations here, so let me address that: You are better off trading at events than just pitching up in a lay-by. Street food, despite the name, is not especially common randomly by the side of the road. It’s something...

London Street Food: Kerb

In case you missed the first part of our epic sort-of city break come street food adventure you can catch it here. Smart phones really are pretty magical in London. As a devout northerner Barny will leave all forms of London navigation to me, claiming ignorance,...

London Street Food: Markets

It’s been a long time coming, but eventually, after a long summer of toasties, we found an excuse to get down to London and try the local nosh, to see how well Birmingham is getting on in comparison. We ended up having to go on a Monday and Tuesday, as that...

Gourmet Street Food

Over the summer, while we were trading at Strawberry Fields, a man took a few minutes out if his busy festival schedule to come over and inform us that the cheddar and ham toastie was not gourmet, in his opinion, because it contained no basil. I was in the van on my...

Street Food Regulars

In the last few weeks we have traded at our semi-regular haunts Stirchley Community Market, on New Street and at Digbeth Dining Club. All of them involved a jaunt up the M40 into Birmingham, and all of them included a selection of our lovely regular customers....