british street food awards, fifteen street, london

david and i have had a good food weekend. a long weekend actually – it started with forza win, a pizza pop-up in bethnal green which saw us sitting on a rooftop (until rain stopped play and we fled indoors) with a southern italian menu of penne ragu (the secret to their ragu is chuck steak, pork belly, toasted fennel seeds, san marzano tomatoes and five hours slow cooking), an eight pizza tasting menu (favourites for me included walnut and pancetta, courgette and parmesan and the classic margherita) followed by ice cream from gelupo – coffee, ricotta and honey was our lucky choice. followed by live music from orlando seale and the swell.

this was followed by saturday spent at fifteen street’s british street food awards festival. sadly we weren’t able to indulge in ginstock as well but working our way through the food stalls was more than enough to deal with.

lots of pictures follow. we ate lots:

spicy paneer wrap from manjit’s kitchen, leeds (this was my people’s choice winner)
suffolk cod in adnam’s ginger beer batter with chips, creamed, mashed and minted peas and homemade jalapeno tartare from the fish hut, suffolk
pulled and devilled chicken in a (half, to save tummy space!) baguette from what the dickens, london
london’s yum bun’s steamed pork bun (with spring onions and hoisin sauce – this was the one we preferred) and japanese breaded chicken bun (too much mayo in this for us)
london’s well kneaded wagon’s beetroot, cherry tomato, garlic, chilli and fresh pesto pizza
smoked crispy chicken slider with coleslaw, bacon, baby gem, pickled onion and brioche from street kitchen, london
wonderful damson and cobnut jersey custard crumble ice cream followed by candied quince, citrus, sour cherry and almond ice cream, both from london’s sorbitium ices (this was david’s people’s choice winner)
ginger’s comfort emporium in manchester served up "chorlton crack" – aka salted caramel and peanut butter ice cream