New Seller: The Well Kneaded Wagon of Wandsworth
The latest LSF crew member is the Well Kneaded Wagon of Wandsworth, one cream and red van which can be found trundling through three of the main markets in SW11 during the week. If pizza’s your thing,...
View ArticlePizza Pilgrims: Berwick Street Market’s much needed boost
This featured in last Thursday’s London Evening Standard but for those of you who didn’t catch it, please see my review of Pizza Pilgrims on Berwick Street below. While I’m on the subject of write ups...
View ArticleLondon Streating: part 2 (east London street food eating)
This has accidentally become long and east London heavy because I did a big loop one weekend. Perhaps I’ll do a south London street food tour next time…and so on.. DALSTON STREET FEAST I never intended...
View ArticleStreet food winners and losers
What a few days it was. If you weren’t there jostling for a space in the queue, you were probably on Twitter following all the action from somewhere else in London. Or perhaps it all passed you by. If...
View ArticleThe new eat.st market
Have you been to King’s Cross lately? Seen the line of trucks that sets up every day selling food on the Boulevard? That would be eat.st, the London street food collective co-founded by a lady named...
View ArticleSome new London street food traders
While I am loath to recycle writing material, I realised that my blog has a slightly different audience to that of the London Evening Standard (where I work during the week). Given that my primary...
View ArticleNew seller: Pizza Pilgrims
If you are having a bit of an off day, I know a team of people who you can count on to cheer you up. Two brothers, James and Thom Elliot began their street food business Pizza Pilgrims around a year...
View ArticleNew seller: Banhmi11
On this rainy afternoon I would like to introduce something that I reckon if you think about enough, might even warm you up. This is Banhmi11, a London street food stall run by Van and Anh who I have...
View ArticleStreet food coming atcha
It looks like British weather might have finally got over itself. This means that there is no excuse for failure to explore the street food markets and the splattering of new pop-ups that are trundling...
View ArticleIntroducing… Craig Ballinger, London’s secret street food accomplice
A few months ago, a man named Craig got in touch with me to introduce himself. A freelance chef and writer, he had been working with various street food traders over the last few months, and had lots...
View ArticleUK music festivals: where’s the street food?
Not so long ago I wrote a piece for the Standard picking out one or two dishes that people might enjoy trying at various UK music festivals. In some cases this was easy because of the interesting...
View ArticleLondon street food: book roundup
Anyone else noticed that there are a lot of street food cook books out in the shops now? Well since I have had the pleasure of leafing through lots of them, cooking from others and gawping at the...
View ArticleLondon street food events this summer
A new adventure has begun. Last week was spent packing up the room I had been renting in west London and saying goodbye to my friend and former flatmate who is about to get married. My plan for the...
View ArticleDevi’s pav bhaji naan ‘pizza’– and an ode to competitive London street food...
In five years of writing this London street food blog, I’ve seen a lot of competitive eating. Sure there have been actual competitions involving people racing against each other to eat or make street...
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