Gourmet burgers and foraged food join market menu
A stellar line-up of the capital’s best street food vendors and most exciting new restaurant openings have been signed up to London Food Month’s Night Market.
They include burger specialist Patty & Bun, African street food favourite Zoe’s Ghana Kitchen, acclaimed Neal’s Yard foraged food restaurant Native and Caribbean restaurant Mama’s Jerk.
They will all be running stalls at Britain’s newest food festival next month, a celebration of the capital’s constantly shifting culinary scene.
Patty & Bun founder Joe Grossmann, 31, is bringing his best-selling Ari Gold cheeseburger and confit BBQ chicken wings to the Night Market.
He said: “We’re just in the process of finalising the special and it’s gonna be a humdinger. We’ve got a sound system on the truck that would do Fabric proud. We’ll be cranking the tunes as the night starts to kick off.”
Grossmann, who opens his latest Patty & Bun outlet in Paddington tonight, said he “couldn’t wait” to join the “immense array of great chefs” signed up to the Night Market.
Imogen Davis and Ivan Tisdall-Downes, founders of Covent Garden restaurant Native, are bringing their zero-waste wild British food to the event, the first major food festival they have attended since opening their permanent site last year.
They will be serving wood pigeon kebab with game chips. Davis, 29, who is also hosting a masterclass at the Seven Dials Fashion Feast on June 10, said: “It is a dish that says everything about us. It is about using foods that perhaps people wouldn’t think of eating and making them so delicious. Everyone loves it.”
Adrian Luckie, former head chef at the Hotel Café Royal, is bringing his Caribbean street food Mama’s Jerk to the festival.
He started his business seven years ago, after being inspired by his Jamaican grandmother’s recipes, and signed on his “first proper shop”, in the Deptford Arches, six months ago. But he said he was excited to go back to his “market roots” and serve a menu including jerk chicken salad.
Sunday Brunch regular Zoe Adjonyoh, founder of Zoe’s Ghana Kitchen, said she would be “serving a selection of our best-selling dishes from the menu in Brixton and our stands” including okra fries and rump beef suya kebabs.
They join more established vendors such as Richard Caring’s A-list hot spot The Ivy, Angela Hartnett’s celebrated restaurants and BBQ joint Smokestak.
