Let me start by saying I LOVE these events, they are known as food battles. I go to them as a punter myself. They are normally held at Wylam Brewery in Newcastle and celebrate some of the best restaurant and street food traders that the North East has to offer and that's saying something. Past battles include, Battle of the Burger, Slice Wars, Mexican Standoff to name a few. Holding the Indian street food battle at Durham County Cricket Ground was a new collaboration between

What better way to kickstart October than with two days at the Catalyst in Newcastle caffeinating the delegates of A-Line's Professional Development Anaesthesia training. This was a fairly late booking that came as a recommendation from my roaster, Baristocracy coffee roasters. The company approached prior to my engagement hadn't worked out so I was happy to jump in and provide the service they were looking for at a price point they were happy with. A-Line are based here in t

The last weekend of August was to be a Bellingham sandwich as I was on another event the days either side. I traded at this event last year so I knew roughly what to expect this time, as long as the weather played ball, which it did, until at least, it was time to pack up. The journey to the Bellingham Show is one of the longest I make with the van at 40 miles with the last 5 miles or so being a bit of a challenge towing up and down the roman roads. It was an early start too

This was a new event for me this year, over two days the Durham County Show has moved to its new home at Thornley Hall Farm. Setup was the day before which can be useful as it removes any of the "where do you want me?" indecision that can occur at the beginning of a trading day, plus alleviate my personal angst of how level or not the ground will be! The only challenge I had was, can I get from NT Washington Old Hall to Thornley Hall Farm by the prescribed end of setup time,

The August bank holiday weekend saw uncharacteristically good weather this year which was fortunate, as I was to spend the Saturday and Sunday positioned on Baltic Square. I didn't know what to expect from this weekend when I was booked for this initially; although the location, next to the Tyne was enough to to temp me to commit. What was a real surprise and added bonus was that this weekend was to coincide with the free, immersive art exhibition at the Baltic Centre showcas

When I started Bass Notes Coffee three years ago I wanted to serve products that had as much traceability as possible. I was able to achieve through my coffee bean choices and to adopt my, up until now USP of using a single origin coffee bean. Through careful selection I was able to carry this through to my tea and drinking chocolate offerings too. Recently I've had to adapt to the ever changing green bean coffee market. For the last couple of years I have served a single ori

OK, so not strictly a wedding coffee service, this was the day after the wedding, coffee service. Lots of the happy couple's guests had stayed over, in bell tents in some quite torrential rain. At the time of booking the rain hadn't been part of the agenda. It was an early start as I had to head south down the A19 50 miles to a lovely little village just outside Yarm to begin service at 9am. Luckily the weather from the day before hadn't left any debris on the roads to impede

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This year the rise in the cost of coffee has been in the news, it seems, almost constantly. Why? I'm going to attempt to answer that and...

Sunday was a very important day for the 60,000 runners of the 2025 A J Bell Great North Run. I've been a runner now for over 10 years so...

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On Saturday I was back once again caffeinating the audience members of this much loved North East Dance School. This is my sixth event in...

Saturday saw my return to Urban Park Market's monthly food, drink and crafts market in Gateshead's Saltwell Park. This is a regular, two...

Last weekend, 24th & 25th May saw the return of this much loved Carnival. Driven by a community desire identified in a Big Local...

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On Sunday 11th May '25 I had the pleasure of returning to The Fire Station in Sunderland to caffeinate the runners and supporters of the...

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