British Street Food Awards Final head to London

The grand final of the 2022 British Street Food Awards – part of the biggest street food competition in the world – is FINALLY coming back to London.

After a summer of competition, 12 finalists from all over the UK will be parking up in Hackney Bridge, at the new home of the ground-breaking Vinegar Yard, and cook to be crowned Britain’s BEST on Friday 9, Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 September.

The £5 entry ticket gets customers a vote, a free ice-cold Cobra AND unlimited vibes. With a celebrity judging panel that includes actor Fay Ripley and the singer Sophie Ellis Bextor (both of whom have written cookery books) plus DJs and a ticket to the BSFA’s exclusive Street Food Start-Up seminar, with speakers from NCASS, Big Apple Hot Dogs and Sessions food halls, this promises to be an UNMISSABLE weekend.

A British Street Food Award is a prize that genuinely changes lives. Wingmans, big winners at the BSFA and the ESFA in 2017, recently opened up their third ‘proper’ restaurant – in Hoxton. MEATliquor, who won at the Awards back in 2009 – now have 12 of the things. Bao have five. BSFA winners go places. Literally. This year the BSFA champion will be going to Germany to compete in the grand final of the 2022 European Street Food Awards in Munich.

Alongside the usual Awards, such as People’s Choice, Best Burger and Best Vegetarian, there will be new Awards this year – including the Spice Award, sponsored by Cobra, and the Future Food Legend Award, sponsored by Sessions. The Best Looking, which is a public vote for the UK’s coolest van, truck or trailer, is sponsored this year by Majisign. And the Sustainable Award is sponsored by the Sustainable Restaurant Association.

Food Mutiny – the company behind the Awards in Britain – have been running Awards in 16 European countries this summer, and will launch the USA Street Food Awards in the Autumn.

“We don’t want a fixed starter-main course-dessert menu any more”

says Richard Johnson, founder of the BSFAs.

 “We want a bit of this and a bit of that. It’s flirty, low-commitment dining. Plus it’s inclusive. And in a world like ours, that’s a positive message right now.”

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