{"id":2841,"date":"2022-12-18T12:19:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T12:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secretfoodtours.com\/blog\/?p=2841"},"modified":"2023-02-10T14:26:56","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T14:26:56","slug":"uk-street-food-cheap-convenient-and-oh-so-tasty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secretfoodtours.com\/blog\/uk-street-food-cheap-convenient-and-oh-so-tasty\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Street food \u2013 cheap, convenient and oh so tasty!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When it is safe to come back to London \u2013 and that could be later this summer \u2013 then it is
safe to say visitors will not probably always want to eat in the capital\u2019s top restaurants.
So join the trend and go for street food. It\u2019s inexpensive. And providing the weather is dry (London is
never as rainy as Hollywood wants you to believe) or you can find one of the many places that provide shelter, it\u2019s a good way to extend your eating experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once upon a time, street food was limited to fish\u2019n\u2019chips or, less often and less spread across the city,
variations on seafood such as jellied eels or winkles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But growing for the past decade or so has been other types of food.
There is little you cannot find \u2013 it comes from Africa, the Americas, Australia, and you can work through
the alphabet yourself. Anything that suggests the Indian sub-continent is really popular.
But to really work it has to be something you can hold in your hands without too many utensils. This is
not silver service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Street food is more of a lunchtime experience \u2013 typically (but not always) served from the back of mobile trucks, it has grown to serve office workers who want something more than a sandwich. And because much of the food is served hot, people eat it on the spot.
If it is not from a stall in the street, then there are plenty of cafes and other establishments which provide street food. Some even use the phrase \u201cstreet food\u201d in their title.
It\u2019s all over London and other big cities in the UK. But some of the best places to check out the variety
are found in street markets. Some such as Exmouth Street (not far from Farringdon station and
convenient for the ballet at Saddlers Wells) are now nearly all food stalls. Others such as Leather Lane
(not that far from Holborn and Chancery Lane stations) have a mix of stalls and more traditional
stallholders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Expect to pay around \u00a36 for a meal \u2013 plus a drink if you want. There are no service charges and the price
shown is what you pay (sales tax or VAT has to be in the list price). Most street food outlets take bank
cards \u2013 preferably contactless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Finally, how to you know good from bad (well, I\u2019ve not found bad but I have discovered indifferent)?
Look for the queue!!! If people are willing to wait in a line for a time, then the end product is likely to be
good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Get more tips and venues location from our guides during your next tour<\/a> in UK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When it is safe to come back to London \u2013 and that could be later…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,798,28],"tags":[976,983],"class_list":["post-2841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-did-you-know","category-local-tips","category-london","tag-local-tips","tag-street-food"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfoodtours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfoodtours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfoodtours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfoodtours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfoodtours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfoodtours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2847,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfoodtours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2841\/revisions\/2847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfoodtours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfoodtours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfoodtours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfoodtours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}