London Street Foodie
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London Street Foodie | food locations, sellers, reviews, news and maps.
During the day I'm the food editor and features commissioning editor at the London Evening Standard newspaper (although I'm currently on sabbatical travelling).
London Street Foodie
3y ago
Leather Lane market is one of the oldest London street food markets, yet even the quickest visit will prove that this way of eating is still thriving. In fact, things are better than that. Even on a fantastically rainy day – when you’d think everyone would order food to be delivered straight to their seats so they didn’t have to ..read more
London Street Foodie
3y ago
Eating before gigs can be a frantic exercise if you don’t leave enough time for it. Last month a friend and I slouched into Red Sea restaurant on the Uxbridge Road for an Ethiopian feast before realising we had 8 minutes to finish up, pay the bill and run the 12-minute journey to the O2 ..read more
London Street Foodie
3y ago
Some people say they don’t really ‘get’ pasta. I can’t understand this, but it’s also fine by me because I have quite a lot of time for it, and them not eating it leaves more for the those of us who do. And because I like it, I write quite a lot about it. So for the third in ..read more
London Street Foodie
3y ago
Ahoy there, London street food-ers – happy Thursday! It’s also international women’s day! So, to celebrate, here’s the second in the new series of short London Street Food Tips written in 200 words only (the first was Lahpet in Spitalfields). Introducing Saba’s Taste of Ethiopia – one of the best lunch spots in Brixton and some of my ..read more
London Street Foodie
3y ago
As some of you well know, this blog is a labour of love. It started out as a hobby, a simple guide to the city’s best street food stalls, markets, and trucks, and as the industry widened and writing a full guide got bigger than me, it developed into more of a journal of random street food adventures ..read more
London Street Foodie
3y ago
8.45pm and a woman is talking at me, urging me to decide what I want to order for my hot pot. Things happen fast around here. “Lady, do you want meat? Fish? Vegetables? Which ones? Tell me quick!” Sensing the urgency, yet not speaking the language, I pick at random. Greens feature highly, as do pieces ..read more
London Street Foodie
3y ago
So…. London street food. We all want a piece! Let’s all start a stall and make millions! Mm hmm, sure. Sadly, folks, while there are tons of success stories, passion alone won’t run your business, as this Canadian former street food trader and restaurateur atests here. Aaanyway, recently I’ve spent a fair bit of time ..read more
London Street Foodie
3y ago
I’m pointing out the blooming obvious here, but there are a hell of lot of delicious things to eat at London street food markets at the moment. Yeah, yeah we’ve heard that before, mate. But, seriously, think about it: five or so years ago there just wasn’t the gigantic variety of street food available that ..read more
London Street Foodie
3y ago
What happens when a London street food trader opens up a restaurant? Is it still street food, has it sold out, and/or or does it move into London street food stall-turned restaurant territory and therefore become a different thing, with different priorities and a different audience? Also, if it’s the latter, then should it really ..read more
London Street Foodie
3y ago
Once you’ve been to a Southern Thai food market with Saiphin Moore and her son Richard, you never forget it. On the day we – another food journalist Mike, a photographer and some of Saiphin’s staff (she’s the co-founder of London’s growing Thai restaurant chain, Rosa’s Thai Cafe) – visited Talad Sod Thetsabin market in ..read more