Street Food in Soho
The Soho Food Union (also known as the Soho Street Food Union) is a weekly street food market held on Rupert Street in Soho from Thursday – Saturday. From 11:00am-4:00pm, around a dozen vendors come and set up shop and offer tasty street food treats to tourists and local office workers. The theme seems to be sandwiches and you can find everything from burgers to Italian ciabatta rolls and Spanish bocadillos. I’d personally suggest stopping by the Dixie Union stand for a pulled pork burger. You get a generous pile of tender pulled pork topped with excellent barbecue sauce (it pains my Texan soul to admit I found delicious barbecue sauce in London of all places, but I did!) and tangy coleslaw made from red cabbage, all atop a fluffy sesame roll. It’s amazing. My wife and I were both greedily licking the barbecue sauce from our fingers when we were done!
There are tables scattered between the vendor stands nut they fill up pretty quickly during the peak hours from 12-2:00. If you get there early in the afternoon, you’ll probably have a better chance of finding a spot. Given London’s notorious lack of benches in downtown, it’s something to consider.
