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STREET WISE Colin Robertson highlights some local street food gems ahead of the Scottish heat of this year’s British Street Food Awards
WHITMUIR ORGANIC FARM SCOFF’S CULLEN SKINK WRAP
SMOAK THE LAUGHING STOCK
T here’s no denying that street food has been having a moment for the past couple of years. There’s been an explosion of food trucks popping up all over the place in the past year, culminating in a thriving movement in Scotland which covers all the bases from gourmet to greasy. You wouldn’t have gone far if you were out and about during the Edinburgh festivals or in Glasgow during the Commonwealth Games without having come across a hi-tech kitchen-on-wheels.
Among them, you’ll probably have found Whitmuir Organic Farm – and their truck ‘Frank’ – who bring their food from the farm to the city, serving up delicious salads, sausage and mash, and slow-cooked beef stews. All of their ingredients are sourced from their own farm, 16 miles south of Edinburgh. There is also Scoff, who serve up a delicious array of Scottish foods done right, with their tattie scones, filled-to-the-brim
breakfast rolls and cullen skink wraps. Elsewhere, the oak-smoked pulled pork burritos from Glasgow’s Smoak are a real treat. Street food will be further celebrated with the Scottish heat of the British Street Food awards coming to Edinburgh over the last weekend of August, bringing together the best of the country’s street food for an epic cook-off in the capital. Contenders in the heat include Whitmuir, Scoff, gourmet soup noodle specialists Nusou, grill, wrap and hot dog maestros The Laughing Stock, artisan street food purveyors The Big Blu, last year’s finalists Wild Rover and many more.
The Scottish heat of the British Street Food Awards 2014 is on Sat 30 & Sun 31 Aug and starts at the Tram Stop Market, Edinburgh. See britishstreetfood.co.uk/awards
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