Street Food

[Annette Curtain]

Thankfully it's started to warm up, which means it's Street Food season again.

I'm partial to Brockley market on Saturday, Herne Hill on a Sunday, as there's a good mix at both.

Pitt Cue have a new truck & The Joint from Brixton Market have bought their first wagon.

Any others worth searching out for a visit ?

[Marmora Man]

Annette Curtain Wrote:

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> Thankfully it's started to warm up, which means

> it's Street Food season again.

>

> I'm partial to Brockley market on Saturday, Herne

> Hill on a Sunday, as there's a good mix at both.

>

> Pitt Cue have a new truck & The Joint from Brixton

> Market have bought their first wagon.

>

>

> Any others worth searching out for a visit ?

See my thread on The Ropewalk in Bermondsey - there's even a local gin distillery and pop up cocktail bar. Food reneged from burgers to tacos to Iberian ham, waffles, cup cakes and a fantastic cheese stall, plus some pizza and other bread stalls.

[UncleBen]

Er "street food" = food sold from a stall on the street as opposed to a property. Dont be so 'kin ridiculous - its the same shite as urban exploring! Man up.

[titch juicy]

Buffalo wings from Orange Buffalo in truman's brewery yard (not sure if that's it's proper name)- blinking excellent. What a shame though that I can't eat them in a stuffy 'property' at a ridiculous price where I'm obliged to order other stuff and tip a waiter. It's horrible sitting at a bench In the sun watching life go by. I think I need to man up.

[edcam]

Street food and pop ups are two of the most irritating cultural developments of recent years.

[titch juicy]

i was thinking street food had been around for millenia

the sunday night miserablists are out in force tonight

[uncleglen]

The man with the food stall on North X road was smoking yesterday- this was illegal behind pub bars etc before the smoking ban- fag ash in your food, hand removing fag from mouth, saliva being spread around...recipe for disaster

[susiq]

where do these people wash their hands before the pubs open? which food stall thats all ther is in northcross road.

[DulwichFox]

Most Street food sellers on North Cross road do not have facilities to wash their hands.

Also handling money / Coins and food.

When I worked in the City / Borough All sandwich shops had to have someone separate to

handle money. They were not allowed to handle food and take the money.

Foxy

[StraferJack]

titch - this argument has been had many times on here. You can explain about the stringent checks and H&S rules the stallholders have to follow (rules, which if the moaners were talking about something else, would have them complaining about excessive red tape)

this threaad has some lurid scare stories

http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,542431,page=1

but fortunately the food and the number of people buying it speaks for itself and we ignore the ignorati

I work at Blackfriars so I try and get up to Kings Blvd near Kings X station for some Rib Man action a couple of times a month. I've seen the mexican van from North X Rd market there a few times as well

[fishbiscuits]

UncleBen/edcam - what's wrong with a sociable eating experience in the open air? It's perfect for a quick/cheap lunch. And fun to go with other people and try lots of different things. Stop being so bloody miserable!

[edcam]

It's generally far from cheap though. Restaurant priced food that you have to stand and eat in the street served from a hygienically questionable van? No thanks.

[UncleBen]

fishbiscuits Wrote:

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> UncleBen/edcam - what's wrong with a sociable

> eating experience in the open air? It's perfect

> for a quick/cheap lunch. And fun to go with other

> people and try lots of different things. Stop

> being so bloody miserable!

It's the ridiculous description calling what you have described above as 'street food', just to make it/yourself/said activity sound less boring and humdrum. I might pop out and have some 'premises food' later, or i may stay in and have 'home kitchen' food.

[El Pibe]

There's an increasing gaggle of posters on here who make it hard to summon the will to live.

ffs he's just asking if people know any places that make nice food to east outside now it's sunny.

I for one would kill for that round my work where the most exciting culinary event of the past decade is the opening of a new greggs, makes a change from mayonaiise sodden sandwiches from Pret & Eat I guess.

[titch juicy]

UncleBen Wrote:

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> fishbiscuits Wrote:

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> > UncleBen/edcam - what's wrong with a sociable

> > eating experience in the open air? It's perfect

> > for a quick/cheap lunch. And fun to go with

> other

> > people and try lots of different things. Stop

> > being so bloody miserable!

>

> It's the ridiculous description calling what you

> have described above as 'street food', just to

> make it/yourself/said activity sound less boring

> and humdrum. I might pop out and have some

> 'premises food' later, or i may stay in and have

> 'home kitchen' food.

It's sweet that you care so much about what it's called.

[woodrot]

an ed arthouse cimena and micro brewery for cats wearing crocs in a bugaboo that serves street food and sushi above a waitrose that is OFSTED rated as outstanding would be the tick all boxes solution. why oh why oh why has no one set this up

[UncleBen]

Ahahaha

[*Bob*]

i FOR ONE can see no difference why a restaurant with tables, chairs, interior design costs and maintenance, tableware, a fixed location, waiting staff, rent, costly utility overheads, insurance for all - would be in any way different from just selling food from a van.

[*Bob*]

i FOR ONE am just being a bit of a knob

[El Pibe]

I'm obviously missing a strain of hilarious in-jokes here.

Does a chip van count as an irritating cultural development or is it just if a bloke selling food is somehow possessed of a nebulous quality that sets people's blowindar off, like I dunno, a three-wheeled stall?

[*Bob*]

We should ditch this daft 'street food' title, which stupidly manages to sum-up exactly what it is in no more than two words - and go with something else.

I suggest 'food sold on non-rigid plates from a mobile catering facility which does not have a licence to sell intoxicating liquor'.

"You fancy grabbing a bite to eat after work tonight"

"Sounds good. But I don't really want a full sit-down restaurant thing. Why don't we just grab some food sold on non-rigid plates from a mobile catering facility which does not have a licence to sell intoxicating liquor?"

[EatsDulwich]

I like Brockley Market too Annette, particularly Mike & Ollie. Tried the tacos from Ambriento on North Cross this weekend - messy to eat but really good. Hot dogs from Dog Father Diner are perfect for hangovers on a Saturday morning too.

Recently tried the pizzas from Van Dough, not quite Pizza Pilgrims, but good base & toppings.

Loved the Roti Chai Chaat Shack that's on the Southbank until the end of the month.

Locally based OFM (original fry up material) serve breakfasts, but not managed to catch up with them anywhere yet. They're at Kerb King's Cross.

[numbers]

love the Rib man too SJ - cannot believe he's got sauces that are hotter than Holy Fuck! I like my chillies but even I find that one a challenge at times...

[edcam]

You could always buy a Ginsters in the Texaco garage and sit on the Goose Green roundabout and eat it. If you ask them nicely they might just charge you double so that it feels more "authentic".

[StraferJack]

edcam - your posts are just proving how far away from grasping the point as is possible