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What we are about
Spreading fun and pleasure via the magnificent means of chocolate. Choc does something very powerful to people and it’s all good! Nothing but smiles at the choc-mobile as we dart from party to festival to food market to wedding to office. Good, tasty, new-classic chocolate treats for on-the-go or to take home – ice cream, milkshakes, hot chocolates, brownie fudge sundaes, darkest truffles, choc martini shots, frozen choc-dipped bananas…. and anything else that we can spin from the van. Choc Star is for hire for any event that needs a bit of fun and MMMmmm factor.

What we do
Drive around Britain serving up chocolate treats for all weather

Who we are
Choc Star is run by Petra Barran – shaker, baker and freewheeling adventurer

Why we started
So that I could combine my three great loves – chocolate, travel and peop

www.chocstar.co.uk

09/04/2010 06:14 PM San Francisco Streed Food Festival I heard about the 2nd Annual San Francisco Street Food Festival some weeks ago. Amazing, I thought. Then it nudged up against me again – probably in the form of a Tweet or some other such fleeting message. Then came the news that it would be followed by an entire two day conference on the [...]

07/12/2010 06:17 PM Whitecross Street Market Street Fair It’s all happpening in EC1 – there’s a street party going down! Whitecross Street, home of one of the most thriving and progressive food markets in London, is once again getting ready to show us what it’s about on a weekend. If you are a trader then get in touch with them now! It’ll be [...]

06/02/2010 05:56 PM eat.st traders in Delicious Magazine this month. A few months ago I was visited by the deputy editor of food magazine Delicious. Over some high-energy truffles we fell into a deep and meaningful conversation about street food in Britain and where things are headed. Fast forward to now and a wonderful feature has been written on the subject – and using myself, [...]

05/17/2010 04:03 PM So many variables… The other day I was pulled up at the carwash on Brixton Road. As my van was taken over by a small army of ardent cleaners (brilliant if you’re after the full works – just outside Jamm at the Loughborough Road turning), my attention was suddenly caught by a jaunty little set-up in the back… [...]

05/12/2010 05:35 PM Richard Johnson drops in. Here’s a little vid that I shot with British street food champion Richard Johnson a while ago. Food journalist, Johnson, set up the Awards last year and has been visiting traders across the land to better get to know this world of flogging good food on the street. If you have a favourite trader who [...]