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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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.
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. Continue reading
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.
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. Continue reading
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