The finest traders in Britain (and beyond) have been cooking up a storm to win the British Street Food Awards since 2010, but this year they’re being joined by live music curated by Universal Music, street food crazy golf, live reviews of the food pages from some of the best journalists in the country and the world’s first aroma DJ – at the British Street Food Festival. 

The British Street Food Festival will be setting up shop in some of the country’s most perfect ‘found’ places – starting with a Norman castle in Oxford on May 1-4. Whether it’s under a circus tent in Cardiff, by a barge of fireworks on the docks in Leeds or a mystery location on the Cornish coast, they will all be spectacular parties, with food and live music at their heart.
 
This year’s dates and locations:
 
CENTRAL AND EAST HEAT: Oxford — 1-4 May
WALES AND THE WEST HEAT: Cardiff — 5-7 June
SCOTLAND AND THE NORTH HEAT: Leeds — 12-14 June
THE FINAL: London — 25-27 September
 
Each location will be fed by the best street food traders from Britain and beyond, competing for the British Street Food Awards. The public will be able to buy sharing plates from each of them, and then vote for their favourites on the British Street Food app. Winners of the vote – plus a few wild cards — will then go through to compete for a life-changing prize at the finals in London in September.