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.
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.
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.
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