Folks, stop what you are doing. You must get your a**e to York.
As some of you may know, hubz and I are here on a 4 day camp trip which was primarily just any old excuse to get a cheap weekend away from all the renovation works that still need done in the house, but secondly as we are both a tad sad and love trains, so we want to go to the National Rail Museum :) but you can imagine my sheer joy when a wee stoat around the town today unveiled an absolute Food Haven!!!
Streets upon streets of food filled bistros, cafes, delis, restaurants, pop up shops and market stalls! We have toured the York Brewery today, sampled a Chocolate Tasting Board at York's Chocolate Story and had real lemonade made before our very eyes on the street, whilst a fire throwing maniac entertained the rest of York behind us.
Yet, the real stand out experience for me today came in the form of a six seater postage stamp of a shop named Shambles Kitchen. I'm salivating as I type. Words cannot explain how out.of.this.world their Pulled Pork Bap is!! I kid you not! 12 hour slow cooked juicey pork, topped with a fresh, tangy and crunchy raw slaw, your choice of sauce all contained in a soft, chewy sour dough bun. Naturally I opted for Hot Sauce, it's a no brainer.
Disclaimer: I have never been one for pulled pork, the 'on trend' phase of pulled pork last year completely passed me by and I never found what all the fuss was about. Now, a fuss must be made. This was simply the most delicious flavour and texture combination I have ever tasted, I mean that sincerely. The tang with the sweet and the salty rendered me silent and when I didn't think it could get any better I find out these guys are using local fruit and veg in their store, scratch cooking everything from their back of house kitchen and using all profits to push forward a social initiative in schools which teaches kids to set up their own juice bar!!! Come.on. Take your hats off for Shambles Kitchen!! They are rocking great taste and great ethics which leaves us with only one option....
....to go back for another tomorrow.
