by Flic Luxmoore | Friday, June 21, 2013 | Street Food, Street Food Theory
I sat down just a moment ago to check something before starting the blog, and seem to have lost a few hours. Recently, specifically since the BBC Good Food Show, this has been happening more. You stare idly at a fixed point in the middle distance, brain cruising on...
by Flic Luxmoore | Wednesday, June 5, 2013 | Street Food, Street Food Theory
The last week has seen us single-handedly cover almost all the street food bases, and at any rate do justice to my personal top three: The market (Warwick Uni, Brindley Place), the collective (Digbeth Dining Club) and the festival (Vale Fest). We were able to road...
by Flic Luxmoore | Wednesday, May 29, 2013 | The Business of Catering
Today, on this most gorgeously drizzly day, I turn an entire year older. To celebrate we went to visit Warwick University and trade on the Piazza near the Union. As we have always suspected students have a strange affinity for toasties, and they left us with a...
by Flic Luxmoore | Wednesday, May 22, 2013 | Food Van Driving, Street Food, Street Food Theory
Every event is a little different, but most of the time they will be something like this. It starts the day before, with a deep clean of the van. Cleaning is a pretty big theme here, brace yourselves. Every surface inside the van has to be scrubbed, then antibacked,...
by Flic Luxmoore | Wednesday, May 15, 2013 | Street Food, Street Food Theory, The Business of Catering
Today we were at the Farmer’s Market in New Street again, watching the rain and serving a sudden rush of lamb toasties. It led to some thinking, some tea and a hypothesis. Our best selling toastie is the ham and cheese. When we first started toasting it...