insideSUSSEX Magazine Issue 04 - June 2015 | Page 32

food+drink

Brighton’s Street Diner
When it comes to street food, Brighton’s Street Diner has it covered.
Open most Fridays throughout the year (although many would
love for these opening hours to be extended), from 11am until 3pm,
this is the first Brighton-based market to be dedicated to street
food traders. Some are local, some from slightly further afield,
some just starting out, some firmly established, but all have one
thing in common: they offer up delicious, fresh, and different food
that is cooked to order using quality ingredients. The difference is
discernible straight away, and the customers return again and again
– they just can’t get enough of this tasty Friday treat.

The market is situated between streets in BN1 and BN3,
and the food ranges from best of British to exotic flavours
that can’t be found anywhere else, or at least not within
walking distance of homes and work places on a Friday
lunchtime.
Food includes gourmet burgers, paella, burritos, meze,
vegetarian stir fries, pulled pork, and much, much more. If
you have a hankering for a certain type of food, Brighton’s
Street Diner is sure to deliver it.
And it’s not just food that gives this exceptional food market
its exciting buzz – there is often live music too, and the
social side of the market is fantastic. This is where locals
come to eat, to mingle, and to relax before the last leg
before the weekend really starts.
The vendors love Street Diner as much as the customers
do. Whereas it could cost many thousands of pounds to set
up and maintain a successful street food business, Kate and
Christina, the entrepreneurs who have started Street Diner
charge just a fraction of that for vendors to promote their
products and gorgeous looking, smelling, and tasting food.
Christina and Kate have been friends for a number of years,
both with links to Brighton (Kate was born and bred there,
and Christina lives there now after moving from London, and
she has family connections to the town), and Street Diner is

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