When selling jollof on the streets is your life but the opportunities to sell jollof on the streets continue to be reduced, what do you do? How do you adapt? And what are the opportunities emerging out of all this difficulty? Jollof Mama's Tieyan Eweka fills me in... Read more...

Reopening at Seven Dials Market, launching his first standalone site in Soho, packing away the meal kits (only to be plotting the secret next level of the meal kit), all while contending with hospitality curfews and a gutted central London, Tom Bickers' head is getting a bit done in, though his game face remains on point as he bikes around London, ensuring Truffle's survival... Read more...

Twenty minutes in the life of Seven Dials Market from the inside and what the hell are we going to do if we are once again forced to close - but this time with no support? From a deck chair in Hyde Park, Simon Mitchell and I mull over our options, so many of them sitting on uncertain ground...  Read more...

Fresh from his first weekend off in months, Only Jerkin's Luke Dawes is breaking back onto the streets and the festival circuit, albeit of a whole different texture and with a lot less dancing allowed... Read more...

Inside the world of the food writer and recipe developer, Melissa Thompson who refused to stay silent about racism in her life and industry anymore. here we are catching up on virtue signalling, representation and the triumph of the setting coconut custard... Read more...

Just on the verge of opening her first stand alone site in Soho, lockdown curtailed her plans and sent Meriel on a different path towards feeding the NHS. Now that she has finally been able to get back to Club Mexicana I go and visit her to catch up on where she is with it all. Read more...

Here I am with London Union's JD at his house in Dalston, catching up with him as he prepares to head off on a vision quest to work out what we do about all this f**kry. Read more...

It's September and a lot has shifted since we locked down and launched KERB on the Inside back in April. What's everyone up to now? I want to find out. Here we go, back with Zan from Bleecker Burger - catching up on the last few months of life in London food and the reopening of her burger joints. Read more...

What’s it like to open a bustling market when bustling isn’t allowed? How do you create a safe and enjoyable space that is also busy enough to sustain the traders? Welcome to some of our current dilemmas - and to our new spot, KERB National Theatre Read more...

Jerk is a big deal, inciting strong feelings and deep pride amongst people of Jamaican heritage. So what happens when you grew up with it - where even your Sunday roasts were jerked - but you decide to play with it? This week I speak with Luke Dawes, co-founder of Only Jerkin’ - and creator of the ever-popular ginger beer battered fried jerk chicken nuggets. Read more...

We have always liked to think of KERB as a space for democratic cooking and democratic eating. A glorious representation of London and its many cultures. But are we really? In our efforts at building greater awareness and change around racial equity, inside and outside our company, I want to talk to some of the black business owners in the KERB community about how inclusive it is... Read more...

America’s on fire, and so are our social media feeds. The centuries old pandemic of state violence on black bodies in the US, flared up again via the death of George Floyd and the other pandemic, is forcing many of us to rethink how racism operates. Not just in America, but here on British soil and within the multi-cultural-seeming walls of our own industry. Read more...

Welcome inside our shuttered food hall. With income down to zero and debt mounting, we take a walk around the empty floors of Seven Dials Market and look at the reality of our situation and what hope we have to reopen. This week, the conversation is with someone close to home - my business partner and KERB and Seven Dials Market CEO, Simon Mitchell. Read more...

Truffle’s Tom Bickers was left with a load of excess stock when we had to close Seven Dials Market. Through packing it up and sending our team home with it, he created the prototype for a burger kit that would save his business. We talk to him about this whole new way of feeding his customers. To see what KERB and our traders are getting up to on the inside, head to our Keep the Wheels Turning Campaign. Hosted by KERB founder Petra Barran, with audio production from KERB stalwart Robin Leeburn of Fairly Media and music ℅ pioneer of the UK grime scene, Tottenham’s very own Meridian Dan Read more...

Here’s the exclusive first listen to Pts 1 and 2 of Fish Taco Rap “Culeros Ride/Culeros Ride Again” - mixed by our man, Robin Leeburn of Fairly Media. Read more...

Here in Episode 3 I pick up with long time KERBanist, Meriel Armitage of Club Mexicana to hear how hospitality, and entrepreneurship have come together to get frontline NHS workers fed, whilst also keeping the wolf from the door for street food traders with no trade. It’s a study in ground-up changemaking that brings kindred spirits together over a common cause and pressing need. Read more...

In our second episode we take a wide lens view of the state of our industry by speaking with man on a mission, Jonathan Downey. ‘Powered by Whatsapp’, high def foresight and an unwavering capacity for getting things done, JD’s proposals to government could help save thousands of businesses. Read more...

Welcome to the first episode of KERB on the Inside - our new podcast for this new era that none of us saw coming. Joining me is burger maverick and KERB Alumnus Zan Kaufman of Bleecker, sharing thoughts on how she’s attacking this curve ball and how she may even be considering a return to the streets that launched her... Read more...