A campaign has been launched to save Boxpark Shoreditch from closure when its lease expires at the end of this summer. Hailed as “the world’s first pop-up mall” when it launched in 2011, the venue pioneered the use of shipping containers as instant mini restaurants and brought new confidence and energy to the capital’s street-food […]
Cage fighter ‘Meatball Molly’ McCann is to open an Italian-inspired kitchen and deli in her native Liverpool next month. Polpetta – ‘meatball’ in Italian – will be in the Baltic Market street-food centre and serve classic Italian comfort food. Molly has made her name as one of Britain’s top women mixed martial artists, competing in the […]
A new street-food venue hosting a rotating line-up of vendors using locally sourced ingredients has opened in Nottingham’s ‘Creative Quarter’. Bustler Market can accommodate 250 diners inside with another 100 outside, and follows its debut as a monthly event in Derby. Set in newly renovated Avenue E of Sneinton Market Avenues, the Nottingham venue operates […]
Flat Iron Square, the street-food venue that looks like an overspill from nearby Borough Market, has moved home, reopening this week on the site of its stablemate St Felix Place, 200 yards along Southwark Street. Founded in 2016 by Ben Lovett of Mumford and Sons, Flat Iron Square was forced to move by redevelopment work […]
The National Theatre has appointed street-food collective KERB as its “hospitality partner”, to provide all the food and drink in its multiple restaurants, cafes and bars, in a deal which underlines how street-food has joined the catering industry’s mainstream. KERB founder Petra Barran, who herself went from mobile dessert van nomad to street-food guru with […]
Battersea Power Station developers are clearly attempting to up their street cred with the insertion of a street-food market at the £8bn project. Plans to turn the iconic building into a hub of shops, restaurants and bars – with commercial and residential space – are already under way, and developers have now announced this hip […]
This spring, street food collective KERB will launch a new outdoor market that’s sure to have foodies swarming all over London’s Southbank. On 4 April from noon until 9.30pm, a total of 27 vans and stalls will line the space behind the Southbank Centre on Belvedere Road for the entire weekend. Craft beer bar, The Cellar, […]
