Fifteen Stalls for First Ever Street Food Market
Whistling Oyster, Mari Deli and Ma Ma Boutique Bakery taking part
The couple behind Bombayish travel to India to bulk buy all their spices
October 15, 2023
The first ever Street Food Market in Chiswick is due to take place on Sunday 22 October with fifteen stalls to be set up in Old Market Place.
The Food Street Market has been set up by local resident Richard Johnson who runs the British Street Food Awards and will be operated by Blue Collar Foods between 11am and 4pm.
The event has managed to attract a number of Chiswick based businesses to take part including Whistling Oyster, the independent fishmonger based on Devonshire Road, which will be bringing a trike along to the event to serve oysters and fizz. Ma Ma Boutique Bakery will also be there selling bread baked that morning. Marzena and Nigel run Chiswick’s only dedicated gluten-free bakery. “We blend tradition with innovation, creating new, feel-good classics” says Marzena. “We believe that bread should be made the old-fashioned way, using only natural ingredients from the finest sources and long fermentation methods without compromising on taste or texture.” The Chiswick Mall based Mari Deli and Dining will also have a stall although it is not thought that it will be selling out of the trunk of the famous Fiat 500 Giardinetta which is parked in front of its premises.
Other stalls include Pig Stuff which specialises in a griddled mac and cheese dish topped with 14-hour slow cooked pork, The Mjolk Float, which is bringing ‘FIKA’ culture to Chiswick and Bombayish, a food truck run by a married couple who travel to India every year - to visit their parents and bulk buy all their spices. Dana says “We cook all our food fresh in our van. We have equipped her with all the equipment we need to serve our delicious food. Our wrap is particularly special to us, as it was designed by our daughter. Both our children take a keen interest in supporting our new venture - it's definitely a family affair!”
Hermanos Taco House will be serving up white corn soft taco shells topped with baby gem, smoky ground beef cooked with chipotle and guajillo chillies diced red onion, fresh coriander and a squeeze of lime and Ugly Dumplings will be providing handmade little parcels of flavour.
Two-time British Street Food Awards finalist Potje Man, Nick will be delivering Cape Malay flavours with his of 12-hour Welsh lamb. He says, “I use a dry rub of toasted mustard seeds, peri peri powder, garlic, oregano, rosemary and black pepper. Then slow roast it for 12 hours with garlic, onions, white wine and chicken stock. Results are extremely tender and flavoursome.
“Served with my famous fragrant Cape Malay curry sauce, on a bed of yellow rice with added piri piri, cashew sour cream, toasted almonds and coriander to balance all the flavours together.”
Amani Kitchen is the People’s Choice winner from the 2023 British Street Food Awards. Amani says, “As a child my happy place was the big table in my grandparents’ house in Iraq – full of delicious, hearty and aromatic food made by my grandmother.” Her Kuba, a thin outer layer of potatoes or rice that is stuffed with minced meat, is particularly recommended . But also, she has a plant-based menu – whether it’s her authentic Arabic falafel, spinach fatayer with pomegranate seeds or biscuits filled with dates.
Other stalls will include OMD Hot Dogs “London’s hottest dogs” according to its website; Avila which provides Venezuelan food including arepa and patacon, pabellon and tequenos; Naakaa, a food adventurist serving up fusion cuisine; Suya Boiz - Big Big Naija Flava, a Nigerian barbecue, with skewered beef suya with jollof rice, fufu and fried plantain and L’Amouse Bouche - who specialise in crepes and galettes – both sweet and savoury.
The highly controversial application for this event was allowed through on a limited basis by the borough Licensing Panel this August. The organisers wanted a licence to run the event every fourth Sunday of the month for the next six months for up to 64 food stalls, but councillors decided to grant permission for a three month licence for a maximum of 20 stalls.
The licence bid attracted one of the highest levels of comments in the borough’s history with the majority of respondents backing the application on the basis that it would provide a similar boost to footfall in the area to that claimed for the other monthly markets that operate in the central car park area on Chiswick High Road. Objections had been made on a number of grounds including the unfair competition it might provide to existing food businesses in the area and the potential for littering from the stalls.
The councillors on the panel decided that a reduced version of the event would provide a compromise solution allowing the operation of the market to be assessed while any potential negative impacts were lessened.
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