The festival is set to dish out everything visitors have come to expect: local food talent serving your crispy, saucy, fried, or fresh pavement-favourites and live DJs spinning the soundtrack to the day. African flavours will serve as the inspiration for this year’s festival.
The 2018 Street Food Festival will expand to include 10 days of festivities, which will kick off with a launch party at House of Machines in Cape Town on 31 August 2018. The festivities will culminate with an after-party in both cities.
The festival will include a lineup of crate talks by local food entrepreneurs. In Cape Town listen to talks by Dial-A-Koesister whose Sunday morning deliveries bring delicious warm koesisters to your door; Toast Ale who brew beer using unsold bread loaves and unused crusts; Elisha Madzivadondo, co-founder of The Sunshine Co., and Jeremey Barty, founder of Breadrev - an organisation built to uplift communities through artisan bread.
In Johannesburg listen to Trevor Chomumwe, the host of The Hello Dinner Club, a monthly pop-up pan-African dining experience; Kgosi Rampa and Sifiso Dlangamandla, the co-founders of Soweto’s hip LoCrate Market, and the Makhelwane Festival where houses along Poka Street in Soweto are transformed into eateries and art galleries over three days. Also speaking are Boitumelo Ramashaba, the founder of Thirst Trap Juices, and Mokgadi Mabela of Native Nosi, a black female-owned bee farm near Tzaneen producing organic, indigenous honey and other products.
South African mayo brand Nola will be stirring up some tasty nibbles and showing you how even just a dollop of Nola can #CreateAStir and transform your favourite dishes.
This year, the Street Food Festival will launch SFF Loves; an initiative which will identify a different cause each year to support. SFF Loves will partner with Food Forward SA, an organisation that collects surplus food from manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers to redistribute to verified partner NPOs that run food programmes that feed thousands daily. SFF Loves has launched an online and physical pop-up shop where virtual versions of South African street food favourites like the gatsby, bunny chow, and magwinya will be sold. All the proceeds received from the sales will go to Food Forward SA to assist them in alleviating widespread food waste and hunger in South Africa.
For more info, go to www.streetfoodfestival.co.za.
