Street Kitchen

Street Kitchen, the first venture of its kind in the UK, will see Jun Tanaka, Executive Chef at Pearl Restaurant, and Mark Jankel, chef and founder of The Food Initiative, take to the streets in an airstream kitchen, cooking up gourmet food for Londoners to eat on the go.

Launching in Covent Garden on 4 October as part of The London Restaurant Festival (4-18 October 2010), Street Kitchen will go on to visit two other landmark London locations finishing at the closing ceremony of the festival in Old Spitalfields Market on 18 October.

The New York-style street van will be selling a seasonal British menu, serving dishes such as Home Smoked Salmon and Braised Featherblade of Beef. All dishes will cost between £4.50 - £6.50 and food lovers can follow daily updates @foodinitiative and @chefjun.

All the produce and beverages will be sourced directly from sustainable and organic UK farms and producers. Street Kitchen will celebrate the wonderful produce that the UK has to offer in October and champion its growers and producers. Whilst in Covent Garden (4 - 10 October), Street Kitchen will also be joining the Covent Garden Real Food Market.

Mark and Jun have enlisted the help of the Ecological Economist, Dr Daniel Lopez Dias, who will help them consider the impact of all their consumptive choices to minimise the environmental impact of the project.