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 Felicity Luxmoore | Tuesday, June 11, 2013 | Street Food
Tomorrow is the first day of the biggest event of the year; the BBC Good Food Show 2013 at the NEC in Birmingham. We won the pitch after a fortuitous series of events involving nominations and voting earlier in the year and have since discovered, by way of an invoice,...
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 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...
by Flic Luxmoore | Wednesday, May 8, 2013 | Street Food
Recently all sorts of new activities have been cropping up for us and the Beast. Street food is gradually gaining traction in Birmingham and nationally the whole idea is becoming more acceptable. This means there are lots of opportunities for free publicity going and,...