Sunday at Maltby Street Market: still a London street food staple

Ropewalk at Maltby Street (pic: Victoria Stewart) “Maltby shmaltby – it just gets so busy, there, so I’ve stopped going,” a few people have said to me recently about Maltby Street Market in Bermondsey. Well, fusty friends, I’ve got news. Get down there for Sunday brunch you’ll find it a little quieter… I decided to go to Ropewalk at Maltby Street because I’m writing something about the market as part of a book (not mine)... Read More

Friday Feasting

Picture courtesy of Hardcore Prawn News for those of you who work too far away from the weekday fun: street food is claiming Friday nights. Last Friday evening, I left the office and spent a happy few hours meeting sellers, eating their wares and comparing notes with friends at The StockMKT, Bermondsey Square. This Friday will be the first of Brick Lane’s Street Feast nights in East London (see image above) where, for 12 weeks from 4th May –... Read More

Paris, the new Eat.St, and other diary dates

  Banh mi baguette at White Horse Hoxton tonight Apologies for the dearth of street food news – I have just returned from a trip to Paris where there appears to be none at all. That said, while my boyfriend sped from from one side of the city to the other doing the Paris marathon, I decided to take on a French food marathon instead, packing in almond croissants near the Bois de Vincennes, rose and mint macarons from the Pierre Hermé... Read More

Spring street fooding

It may still be January but fresh off the plane from a short trip to Italy, with my stomach still full of pasta amatriciana and my brain hazy from the smell of some of the best olive oil I have ever tried (look up VignaMaggio if you get a chance), LSF is getting excited about the spring. Noone can give me dates for anything just yet – we’re all playing endless guessing games – but come March or April, Exciting.Street.Food.Things.Will.Start.To.Happen: We’ll... Read More