Gourmet Street Food
Over the summer, while we were trading at Strawberry Fields, a man took a few minutes out if his busy festival schedule to come over and inform us that the cheddar and ham toastie was not gourmet, in his opinion, because it contained no basil. I was in the van on my...
Toastie Recipe Development
In our travels through time and space people often ask us how we go about developing a new toastie recipe. The conversation starts with them asking if we ever get sick of eating the same toasties, to which we will respond that as far as we know, we have yet to have...
Street Food Regulars
In the last few weeks we have traded at our semi-regular haunts Stirchley Community Market, on New Street and at Digbeth Dining Club. All of them involved a jaunt up the M40 into Birmingham, and all of them included a selection of our lovely regular customers. It's...
Leamington Street Food
Street Food has finally made it to Leamington Spa! This Friday, for the first time, there will be a dedicated Leamington Street Food market, known as Eat Street, on Regent Court. It's a project that has been ticking along in the wings for a while now, as we have tried...
The Last Music Festival
This weekend is Moseley Folk Festival. It will be the last music festival of the season for us and the last chance to squirrel away some funds before the cold remainder of the year arrives and starts to nibble away at our rations. It will also be the most expensive...
The Elvis Toastie
There are times when you have to try something out just to make sure you're not missing out. The nature of our street food calling does mean that we spend a lot of time receiving suggestions for toasties that will make us our millions, but the reality is that everyone...
Tendering For A Pitch
The process of tendering. I have to admit I'm not a fan, even though it works in our favour some of the time. The organiser gives asks you to tender an amount that you would like to pay to serve at an event, collects these together and then uses their magic powers of...
The Portion Equation – How Many Portions Do I Take
Knowing how many portions, or units, to take to an event is probably one of the hardest things to learn in street food. As with all catering you need to balance your sales with your wastage, but unlike most catering, stock often can't be rolled over to the next day....
Global Gathering Food Guide
This weekend was Global Gathering. At 50,000 visitors officially our biggest festival so far. There are road closures, the traffic grinds to a standstill all around it. Stepping through the gates you enter a bubble of dance music (with your hands in the air like...
Reenactment Trading
Last weekend we tried a new type of event: The Historical Reenactment. A field, a weekend and two thousand years of history, fought out before your eyes. I our case fought out just around the corner in the main arena, where we couldn't quite see. Luckily the access to...
The Lake District
Last week there was an unaccounted for silence on the usually clockwork blog post front. This was due to the fact that finally, after a solid month of work and quitting the real job entirely, we got ourselves a little holiday. We managed to squeeze it in between...
Making Money From Street Food
On Monday I had my final day of real work. I washed out my mug, sat through the uncomfortable if well-meant goodbye cake and went to the pub afterwards to demolish the three drinks required to make me verbose and smiley. The following day was then my first day off...