A glut of new traders, smart sites and big money: street food’s moving up and out. Five years ago, friends Nud Dudhia and Chris Whitney quit their jobs to sell tacos from a shack in an east London carpark. The city guys-turned-street food makers encapsulated everything about the budding industry that seemed most exciting; bold, brave, a little brash, they …
Street food traders and property developers
What happens when property developers and street food traders strike up a friendship? Street Feast takes advantage of unloved or awkward – and therefore cheap – plots of land for its pop-up markets. ‘We get great deals on rent,’ says Jonathan Downey, London Union CEO. ‘Because we can set up quickly and cheaply in ‘meanwhile’ space, that would otherwise be …