The finest traders in Britain (and beyond) have been cooking up a storm to win the British Street Food Awards since 2010 and this year they’ll be heading to Oxford.
The British Street Food Festival will be taking place at Oxford Castle Quarter from Friday May 1 to Monday May 4 - The May Bank Holiday weekend.
And this year they’re being joined by live music curated by Universal Music, street food crazy golf, live reviews of the food pages from some of the best journalists in the country and the world’s first aroma DJ.
Visitors to the festival will be fed by the best street food traders from Britain and beyond, competing for the British Street Food Awards.
The public will be able to buy sharing plates from each of them, and then vote for their favourites on the British Street Food app. Winners of the vote - plus a few wild cards will then go through to compete for a life-changing prize at the finals in London in September.
Entry tickets to the British Street Food Festival will entitle the public to a free pint of Cornish Pilsner or Doom Bar cask ale from Sharp’s, plus live music and DJs curated by festival partners Universal Music.
New artists from Universal Music’s family of labels will be performing alongside the brightest local talent with a little help from Spinnup, the music distribution service for unsigned artists.
British Street Food founder Richard Johnson said: “Everything about this year is a step up. The music will fold around everything that we’re trying to do. There’s new holes on the street food crazy golf, and the entertainment- from a beer / food matching experience to a high-end food quiz - will blow your mind.”
2015 is proving an exciting year for British Street Food, as they continue to grow the movement . They are franchising street food brands for London’s Euston Station - opening this spring as well as running the world’s first street food mall at Leeds’ Trinity Kitchen, driving a street food roadshow across Scotland and the North of England with British Land and -later this yeartaking over the country’s pub kitchens.
But the British Street Food Awards is the foundation of everything they do. It’s where they get to showcase exciting new talent. And parade the best of the OGs. So, as well as new kids (like The Cake Doctor, who bakes and decorates his sponges in an ambulance, and a man who makes pizza- on a bike) expect the very best from previous years. Including overall winners of British Street Food Awards for the last four years who are back to try and regain the crown!
www.britishstreetfood.co.uk