* A new collective is making plans to serve its street food right across the region.
The collaboration named Scoff is bringing together five Midlands vendors – The Jabberwocky, Hungry Toad, Spectacular Goat, Big Daddies Diner and The Meat Shack.
Barny Luxmoore, aged 30, who launched gourmet toastie venture The Jabberwocky with partner Flic three years ago, said: “The idea is to bind together to get more power behind the traders and allow us to put on our own events. The problem as an individual trader is that when you try to put on an event you have to organise everyone else and give the location or venue the confidence that you can do it.
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“As a collective that confidence is really boosted.”
Scoff’s first focus is a pop-up project each Saturday at the Cask and Bottle in Leamington Spa where traders will take turns each week to take over the kitchen delivering pub grub with a twist.
They are in talks with a venue in Wolverhampton to run a weekly street food event and hope to gain another residency in Warwick as well as taking on one-off events throughout the year.
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* Maison Mayci will be returning to television screens on Monday .
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The Birmingham bakery is competing in the semi-final of ITV’s Britain’s Best Bakery, hoping to be crowned the best in the country.
Opened in Kings Heath in 2006 by French brothers David and Remi Faveau, the bakery’s second branch came to Moseley in 2010.
The bakery beat competition from fellow Brummie enterprises Vera’s Traditional Caribbean Bakery in Great Barr and city centre venture Frost and Snow to reach the competition’s regional final where it triumphed over bakers from right across Wales and central England.
It will need to survive the heat on Monday to win a place in the final.
* After taking a break in January the popular Digbeth Dining Club is set to make a return on Friday.
The club kicked off Birmingham’s street food scene in August 2012 and gained a cult following through Twitter and Facebook, drawing a loyal crowd to its weekly appearances at Spotlight, under Digbeth’s railway arches in Lower Trinity Street.
It was named Best Street Food Event at the 2013 British Street Food Awards and has a regular roster of more than 20 local vendors, taking turns to feed the crowds, as well as welcoming visiting street food traders.
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Its return will see four vendors serving freshly-cooked food to a post-work crowd.
Expect Esmie’s Seafood Kitchen, Fat Duck Spuds and two Brum favourites, Low n Slow and The Meatshack.
It runs from 5.30-10.30pm every Friday.