Trade Secrets
Based on the title you probably have some expectations here, so let me address that: You are better off trading at events than just pitching up in a lay-by. Street food, despite the name, is not especially common randomly by the side of the road. It's something a lot...
London Street Food: Kerb
In case you missed the first part of our epic sort-of city break come street food adventure you can catch it here. Smart phones really are pretty magical in London. As a devout northerner Barny will leave all forms of London navigation to me, claiming ignorance,...
London Street Food: Markets
It's been a long time coming, but eventually, after a long summer of toasties, we found an excuse to get down to London and try the local nosh, to see how well Birmingham is getting on in comparison. We ended up having to go on a Monday and Tuesday, as that appears to...
Could I Run A Street Food Business?
If you are looking for serious and useful advice please check out our post on starting and running a street food business. This post is, at best, silly and unhelpful in that respect, but nonetheless, in the opinion of the author, delightfully readable and...
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...
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