Camels Milk Ice Cream

This past weekend a little taste of the Middle East came to London, via Manchester, when the ice cream van Gingers Comfort Emporium unveiled their camels milk ice cream at the Experimental Food Society. This is apparently the first time this product has been sold in the UK and the milk has to be sourced from the Netherlands where Europe’s only camel dairy farm is based! As Gingers Comfort Emporium was only in London for two days, I made sure to head down to Brick Lane where they were pitched up, so I could give it a try before they headed back up North.

Kimchi Cult on London’s Newest Street

You might not be able to find it on a map yet, but Kings Boulevard – London’s newest street, is quickly gaining a reputation as a place to find great food. Specifically great street food. Since the start of October the guys from Eat.St have been running ‘eat.st at Kings Cross’, a micro street food market on Thursdays and Fridays, with a rotating group of their traders. And by all accounts its turned out to be a great success, with the local office workers flocking down to try something new for their lunch. Unfortunately for me, I work in deepest, darkest, North London and normally there’s absolutely no way I could make it down during my lunch break. But luckily today I had the day off, and I had to get a train from Euston which gave me the perfect excuse to head down and see what was on offer.

Eat My Pies on Broadway Market

What’s the old saying “the best laid plans, often go awry”? Well that was the case this weekend when I headed out to London Fields in Hackney to check out Lucky Chip at Netil Market and their fantastic sounding burgers.  But it wasn’t meant to be, as just as I arrived I was told they’d run out of meat and would have to close until they could get a delivery from their butcher!

So still hungry I decided to head down Broadway market, just a few minutes away and see what street food was on offer.  And it turns out, quite a lot!  There was a great choice including Vietnamese Banh Mi baguettes from Banhmi11, Vietnamese Coffee from Ca Phe VN, or Ghanain stews from Spinach & Agushi.  While I’ll definitely head back soon to try all of these, this time I decided try a bit of British street food, albeit with a bit of a twist, from Eat My Pies.

Kings Cross Just Got A Whole Lot More Interesting

I started hearing rumours and murmurings a few weeks ago, that something was about to be announced. Then there was an article in the Evening Standard two weeks ago suggesting that the Eat.St guys would be taking over a disused petrol station in Kings Cross for a couple of weeks, but that turned out to be premature.

But earlier today the Eat.St guys announced the full details – and it sounds like Central London is in for a bit of a treat. From this week Kings Cross is going to get its own street-food micro-market called ‘eat.st at Kings Cross’ Thursday’s and Friday’s 10am – 4pm. Sitting on Kings Boulevard (which happens to be London’s newest street) right behind Kings Cross and St Pancras, there will be four different traders each day, meaning over the course of the market you’ll get to try a whole range of different foods.