The Beast is Back

It’s been a very long time coming, but finally the van is fixed. I’m pretty sure that the word “fixed” cannot be used definitively here, but at any rate the Beast is once again a functioning, if slow, member of the active road community, rather...

Street Food Difficulty Level: Pro

The reason it’s all been quiet on the blog front over the last few weeks is because negativity doesn’t sell. Not that I’m really selling anything other than street food, but no one wants to read, week after week, the disheartening accounts of how the...

Street Food TV Shows I Wish They Would Make

The van is still out of action. The guy who was going to send us an engine doesn’t have one; the people who do have engines are invariably hundreds of miles away, or they are offering a deal that sounds too good to be true. Unlike a good street food TV show,...

British Street Food Awards – Birmingham Heat

This Friday is the first ever regional heat for the British Street Food Awards. In the past 6 years the awards have been fairly London-centric from the rest of the country’s point of view, but this year they are taking to the road. First stop on that journey, to...

Painful Food Van Problems

I have always been an advocate of food vans. The Beast is nothing less than the third member of the Jabberwocky, and he’s an important part of the business. I’ve always been very open about how much food vans can – and do – break down, but most...