Last week saw me finally get around to eating at Meat Liquor and yesterday I finally made it to Lucky Chip. And after just one bite I was kicking myself that it had taken me so long – because Lucky Chip’s burgers are something else!
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When it comes to London’s two most famous burger vans (Meat Wagon and Lucky Chip) I have a pretty poor run of luck. Every time I’ve tried to go visit them something has got in the way and i’ve ending up cancelling. When Meat Wagon was in it’s Meat Easy stage I managed to queue for about an hour and make it inside before the rest of my group turned up late, didn’t fancy the now two hour queue so we ended up eating Thai down the road. Then there was the time that I arrived at Netil Market to finally try a Lucky Chip burger only to be told they’d run out of beef!
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Together with what felt like half of London I headed down to Chinatown today to watch the Chinese New Year celebrations. As always it was a lot of fun and if you battled your way through the crowds there was plenty to see and of course there was plenty to eat.
Despite living in Hammersmith for nearly three years, I never made the short journey across the river to The Ship pub in Wandsworth, and after visiting this weekend I now realise I was seriously missing out! But at a Bloggers Lunch (organised by Gail at One Million Gold Stars) I more than made up for lost time with a wonderful – and extensive – menu! Rather than writing a post, i’m just going to let you drool over some pictures of some of our dishes!
First there was Meatwagon, then there was Lucky Chip, could Mother Flipper be next?
Mother Flipper first started slinging their burgers back in December, so have only been around for a few weeks, but in that short time i’d seen enough pictures and positive tweets to make me curious enough to head down to Lewisham this last Saturday. You can find Mother Flipper in a Lewisham car park as part of the excellent Brockley Market (which has a fantastic selection of street food) 10am-2pm on Saturdays.
When I moved down to London five years ago, I left behind a city where the idea of street food was a cheap burger van with the smell of frying onions filling the air. Of course London wasn’t much further ahead with street food only just beginning to make tentative steps forward. But when I went back home for Christmas this year I was delighted to see that things are starting to change. Continue reading
For me, when it’s cold outside there’s nothing better than a bowl of hot warming chili to make me feel better. So a few weeks ago when I was at the Chocolate Festival and it was absolutely freezing I was so happy to see Anna Mae’s had set up a chili shack and were serving up their Bowl O’ Red.
Sad news…this weekend the London street food stalwart Choc Star will be shutting up shop. After one final weekend at the Southbank’s Real Food Festival the chocolate van (known as Jimmy and run by Eat Street’s Petra Barran) will be driving off into the sunset.
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In London the street food scene is pretty impressive at the moment, there’s a lot of people out there serving up great tasting food at really great prices. Even with the quality food that’s out there, occasionally I still get surprised with just how good some of the food really is. And earlier this week when I was down at ‘eat.st at Kings Cross’ I was blown away by a seemingly simple slice of margherita pizza from Homeslice.
Today is apparently Dia de los Muertos in Mexico, otherwise known as Day of the Dead. It’s a day where families remember those who have died in the previous year and pay their respects – one of the ways they do this is by eating their favourites foods. So today seemed liked the perfect excuse for some of my favourite food. And as coincidence would have it the ‘eat.st at Kings Cross’ street food market (which is now running for three days a week with even more traders) was today the home to Luardo’s who were serving up their wonderful burritos.
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