Britain’s most exciting street food traders will be racing to London next month – in an extraordinary fleet of vans, trucks and trailers – to compete, head-to-head, in the 2012 British

The race to bring street food indoors is hotting up. At British Street Food we've already talked about how schools are trying to pep up their lunchtime offerings with a little bit of pavemen

This story doesn’t get any less embarrassing to tell. But I still need to tell it. It was a summer lunchtime – in a New York park – and Marco Pierre White and I were hungover from a ni

Faith Popcorn wants to know everything about you – and I mean e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g. From the vermouth in your martini to the groceries in your refrigerator. The world’s leading trend fore

Andy Bates was there at the very beginning of the Street Food Revolution. The launch was of the British Street Food Awards was held on Whitecross Street, the London market where Andy sold hi

Bad news. The lovely Fay Ripley (actress and author of the brilliant Fay's Family Food) is going to drive to Harvest At Jimmy's. I was very excited when she agreed to come and join the judge

It was a proud, proud moment -- to see the British Street Food Awards finalists all come together. (more...)

Are you kidding? No more heroes? We have spent months now, meeting, greeting and eating the best of British street food. And there are some real superheroes out there. Men and women doing g

In troubled times, a juicy, two-fisted hamburger provides comfort. It isn’t a trend – it's a classic. And it’s a classic for a reason. So don’t monkey about with it. The meat shouldn

Aiken Drum was an odd-bod. What with his hat of cream cheese, and his coat of roast beef, he had what can only be described as the world’s first eating disorder. If I remember the rh

It was army scientists who first brought us dried egg, freeze-dried coffee and processed cheese. Well, they’ve gone and done it again. With everlasting bread. By lowering its acidity, and

I will always remember Marco Pierre White in the lobby of the Soho Grand, signing for breakfast. He put it on Room 320 – the only problem was that he was in Room 322. He was the worse fo

I have just found out that Leon want to get involved with the British Street Food Awards. And I’m excited. You see, I can still remember my first Leon meal – in a busy pedestrianised are

Antony Worrall Thompson has just sent me this article. He wrote it for the Express, a few years ago, when he was -- understandably -- down on the whole idea of British street food. Now he

I don’t know if it was the coffee beans (Tanzanian Peaberry and Sumatran Mandeling), the hand grinder, the personal cafetiere or the trioxane pocket stove in her handbag that give it awa