On Saturday, the 1st of August, I attended the first Maboneng Street Food Festival to be held in Johannesburg. It was hosted at the Hazard Gallery at Arts on Main in the Maboneng Precinct. The market was free and open to the public and served authentic street fare made with quality ingredients.
Street food is real food and is quickly becoming very popular with us city folk. With food trucks, markets and stalls the options are really limitless. I particularly loved how this festival – along with inner-city markets like Market on Main, Neighbourgoods and The Sheds @ 1Fox – bring people into the city.
We headed to Origin Coffee for a flat white to fuel us up for all the walking we intended to do.
There were many choices but after checking them all out we finally settled on the beef ribs and Waygu Beef burgers from Woodview.
While photographing The Counter my son picked up a huge piece of fudge, licked it and then put it back! I had to buy it, along with some cookies. And boy, am I glad I did. That fudge was a creamy, melt-in-your-mouth square of heaven.
The Street Food Festival was a fun and tasty way to spend a Saturday afternoon and I cannot wait for the next one!
While the Street Food Festival is an annual event, you can visit Market on Main every Sunday for delicious food, beer, coffee and sweet treats, plus you can also browse galleries, fashion and home decor stalls.
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