Food & Lifestyle

Before you can start brainstorming color schemes and marketing campaigns, you first have to develop a clear understanding of your restaurant brand. Ultimately, this will influence how your customers perceive and interact with your business. Your food truck brand dictates how your business lives on in the minds of your customers. This means that from the first time anyone sees your logo on their Instagram feed (or on the side of your food truck as it drives down the street), your brand should be memorable. Be sure to remain cohesive and consistent with your imagery, logo, menu, brand voice, font choices, and social media presence. How to Create a One-of-a-Kind Food Truck Brand Creating a memorable brand is all about leaning into what makes your food truck unique. A food truck brand should not only be enticing, but true to your spirit as an owner and restaurateur. Your brand should answer the question, “Why should customers choose your food truck over the opposing truck down the street...

Summer is the time of the year when many special occasions, social events and celebrations move from the indoors to the outdoors. If you are interested in putting together an outdoor event that will be remembered for a long time, you need to think outside the box a little. Especially when it comes to your options for outdoor catering. Finger buffets are all well and good, but they’ve been done a hundred times before. Formal sit down dinners are not suitable for an outdoor environment. So, what do you do? In the following post, we are going to offer up 5 great tups for unique outdoor catering that will hopefully help you with your plans for your event or celebration to stand out from the many others. As well as discussing menu and food ideas, we also offer some practical tips to keep in mind too. HIRE FOOD TRUCKS Rather than serving traditional food up in a traditional manner, you could follow the popular trend of hiring some food trucks as the outdoor catering for your event. Not only ...

With the good weather finally on the horizon and many of the restrictions we have had to put up with in the UK being lifted, you will be able to enjoy a traditional British summer BBQ. If you tend to find yourself heading to your favourite supermarket for your BBQ food and are looking to up your game a little this year, you should check out some of the great markets dotted around London. Not sure where to start your search? Below we’ve highlighted the 5 London markets we think offer the best of the best in BBQ food . BROADWAY MARKET Found in the London borough of Hackney, Broadway Market is the smallest of the markets on our list. Don’t let that fool you, though, as it commands an enviable reputation and is continuing to expand and grow. This is in part because it offers a wide range of organically sourced food, including venison, veal, freshly caught fish and rare breed pork for your own BBQ. If you try the tantalising BBQ stands they have there, though, you won’t be disappointed. STR...

Summer is the perfect time to get together with friends and family. Even in Britain, if you are careful to choose those days when the sun is shining and there is not a raincloud in sight, you can have a great outdoor event. Whether it’s a wedding, birthday party, anniversary, engagement, or a party just for the hell of it, surely that’s what summer is for? However, one of the problems many people have when organising summer events is the food and catering. It can be hard to gauge what your guests are going to like, especially if a lot of them have different tastes, preferences, or even dietary requirements. If you find yourself stuck trying to decide on the type of catering you should have for your next summer event, why not consider BBQ catering ? In the following post, we are going to highlight 5 great reasons why you should. THE SMELL IS INTOXICATING We’ve all been there, haven’t we? Walking or driving along the road when we catch a whiff of the scent of charcoal burning and meats (...