Street Feast London

The boyfriend's birthday was fast approaching and with any excuse for a get together we decided to head to the highly recommended Street Feast London. A collection of some of the best street food vans London has to offer all congregating in one place, serving booze every Friday evening during the summer months. The vendors change and rotate every week, and the location changes every month or so, it was first in a disused car park with seating in the old car wash and next it headed to Camden Brewery. You can book a table and have waitress service but we just turned up and wandered around trying to decide what to eat.

The Camden Brewery is a great venue, the huge metal stills loom over the seating areas outside, inside kegs of beer become seats and there is a cool bar with the guest beers written on a chalk board. It is one of London's micro-breweries and is in Kentish Town under the railway arches, a great little find with the bar open every Friday even when Street Feast moves to a new location at the beginning of July.

So, the food. I couldn't decide as everything looked and smelled amazing. We decided to get a few things and share. Mat queued up at Mother Flipper and took a ticket for a double cheese burger, whilst I headed to Kimchi Cult for one of their Korean inspired cult burgers - cheese, bacon, a meat patty and kimchi (Chinese cabbage pickled in salt for a few hours then mixed with ginger, chilli, fish sauce, sugar and onions). My favourite was the Kimchi Cult Burger, the bun was glossy and slightly sweet and the kimchi really added an extra dimension, but to be fair the Mother Flipper double cheese burger was one of the best burgers I have ever had - there was nothing greasy burger van about it, just great meat cooked really well. It was also a lot easier to eat than the kimchi one, where all the filling kept trying to escape.

After this meat feast I headed to Hardcore Prawn who specialise in Asian skewers, noodles and soups, I went for the spicy Tom Yum soup which was filled with soft noodles and little shrimps, it had a real kick and is one of the best Tom Yum soups since my trip to Thailand all those years ago. I couldn't resist some grilled skewers of chicken and prawn - perfect bite size chunks of deliciousness. I did share with Mat but rather begrudgingly.

Thinking I was approaching full and some of the stalls had sold out (I missed out on the speck mobile), I thought it was time for cake so headed to what I think was called My Sweet Tooth Factory for a red velvet cupcake, which I think may be better than those from The Hummingbird Bakery, which is an amazing achievement as I love cakes from there!

It turned out I wasn't quite full though, sitting outside next to Mama's Jerk Station with the smell of jerk chicken wafting past as we chatted the night away, me and a friend decided it wouldn't be right unless we tried one more lot of street food before the night was over. We went for a jerk chicken wrap to share which was the perfect amount to satisfy my cravings - the chicken was really well seasoned and had enough kick for me, perfectly balanced with the creamy mayo sauce.

We had such a great night and we left as the stalls closed up shop, slightly intoxicated but with very full bellies and satisfied tastebuds.