Increasingly, when we eat out, we want three things: variety, informality and freedom. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the irresistible rise of food halls, street food events and produce markets that share a freewheeling, eat-eclectic dynamic – offering multiple kitchens, affordable dishes and fun with friends. Modern Britain wants to eat how and when it pleases: global menus, endless choice, indoors, outdoors, no set format. To celebrate this great liberation, Olive has selected some of the country’s hottest multi-kitchen spots, from artisan markets to street food parties
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Off the Beaten Truck, Cambridgeshire
Food trucks have had a stop-start history in Britain but OTBT weaves them into daily life. It feeds hungry office workers in Cambridge by hosting top-rank traders at its foodPark sites. In the evenings, it also runs suburban events, such as its weekly Saffron Walden flagship (up to six kitchens in summer). This sees the likes of wood-fired Pizza Mondo or buttermilk fried chicken outfit Buffalo Joe’s, serving at the community-owned Railway Arms pub, and on Saffron Walden
