A pop-up restaurant firm today appealed for help to catch thieves who stole its new kitchen-on-wheels.
Scottish food specialist Dram & Smoke — whose menus have included haggis bonbons with Irn-Bru jam and beer-battered Mars bars — wants to track down its van and trailer.
About £12,000 of equipment was lost in the theft outside co-owner Nick Fulton’s home in Nunhead, south London, in the early hours of last Tuesday.
The branded trailer, from which whiskey would have been served, had been picked up only 14 hours earlier.
His co-owner Paul Ross, 29, said: “It’s a kick in the teeth, really disabling for a young business. The trailer was unlatched, so had to be attached to the van by the thieves, which says to me it wasn’t a bunch of kids. Nick woke about 7.30am and there was no sign of it, just a space about 30ft in length.”
Dram & Smoke’s sold-out pop-up dining venues have included a working steelyard in Vauxhall and a former tannery warehouse near the Shard. It recently served actors Tobias Menzies and Caitriona Balfe on the set of acclaimed drama Outlander.
Anyone with information about the theft can contact police on 101.
