The Pitstop Café Berwick Street Van was the street food vendor with the longest queue when we visited Berwick Street Market for lunch last week. To be fair, we walked up and down the street checking everyone else out, but we ended up walking back to the small white caravan surrounded by the hungry horde. There were many…
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The Perfectionist’s café – All Day Breakfast before the flight
The Perfectionists’ Café in Heathrow was apparently ‘Inspired by Heston Blumenthal’s In Search of Perfection TV series, in which he examined every aspect of our favourite dishes in order to make them as delicious as possible’. I liked the look of it as I meandered my way through Heathrow Terminal 2 looking for someone to sustain…
Wild Caper at Brixton Market
Wild Caper in the Brixton Market is a small café that is mainly selling Eastern Mediterranean food. I was really tempted to try some of their Meze dishes especially the ‘Meatballs Saganaki’ essentially Beef meatballs with a tomato sauce and melted Kaseri cheese for £5. We also really fancied the Pork Belly wrap for £4.75 which was a…
Cafe Caribbean at Spitalfield Market
Café Caribbean in old Spitalfields market is the sort of place that you hope to find when hunting for lunch. The counter is filled with a whole plethora of delicious looking vats of Caribbean food. It looks homemade and authentic, it IS homemade and authentic, and in the end it tasted homemade and authentic. Their website tells…
The Ginger Pig – A Sausage Roll recommendation followed by Chops and Bacon
The Ginger Pig has six butchers shop across London all supplied from their North Yorkshire farm land. Tim Wilson says on their website that “At the heart of everything we do is good animal husbandry and welfare; livestock that is looked after well in the field will simply taste better on the plate”. That is…
Boston Sausage at Borough Market – Super Sausage Burgers
Boston Sausage have been trading at London’s Borough Market since 2007 and can be found there six days a week. Their hot food stand where they serve up a choice of sausage baps and burgers is in the Green Market right next to the Southwark Cathedral grounds. It gets pretty busy later in the day down…
BunnyChow at Shoreditch Box Park in East London
The Boxpark in Shoreditch is one of those places that might sound a bit naff but turns out to be a really clever idea. It is billed as a Pop Up Mall and is essentially a small shopping complex made out of stripped, refitted recycled shipping containers hence the name boxpark. It started life in 2011 and is…
Kappacasein – A Total Grilled Cheese Fest
This weekend I headed over to Borough Market to hunt down some essential and perhaps not so essential tasty morsels. Even before I left I knew exactly which stall I was going to be starting off at for that pre-shopping snack! That Stall of choice, was the Kappacasein stall, which as always was located right on the…
Pâté Moi – Mushroom Pate at the Borough market
It is not often that I get that excited about things that do not focus on Meat or bacon related products, but on occasion I take an exeption and one of those is the Pâté Moi, a Mushroom Pate that I found in London’s Borough Market. It is described as being “hand made with organic mushrooms from…
Kerb at Kings Cross – ‘Spit and Roast’ Food Truck
Kerb at King’s Cross is a Street Food Market of mobile traders. It is located at the top of King’s Boulevard, N1C a couple of minutes walk from the King’ Cross Train station entrance. I had read about it prior to heading into London via St Pancreas (which is just over the road from Kings…
