READING’S newest food and bar venue opens this weekend.
Blue Collar Corner on Hosier Street will open to the public at 11am on Saturday, March 12, offering a variety of flavours to street food fans from a two-floor container village.
It also has a bar serving drinks including Double-Barrelled Brewery’s craft beers, and will host DJ slots to provide a musical backdrop to the site.
Blue Collar’s Wednesday and Friday lunchtime pop-ups in Market Place will continue.
Glen Dinning, the man behind the venture, has being running food events around Reading for six years.
“A permanent container village has always been my ambition,” Mr Dinning said.
“I was inspired by similar set-ups in places like Brixton, Peckham and Shoreditch and wanted to bring something like those home.”
The process began a year ago, when Mr Dinning found the plot on Hosier Street. Six containers have been converted for vendors, and one has been turned on its side to form the staircase between the two floors. The stairwell is decorated with a gallery of posters from Blue Collar events since it began.
“It’s been a long time coming, now that it is finally happening it’s a relief,” he added.
“Lots of contractors have been involved and Sonning Flowers have made the canopy displays, which will be changed with the seasons”
It will be open Thursdays to Sundays, 11am until late, and is free to enter.
Vendors confirmed for the launch are Gurt Wings, Sarv’s Slice, The Taco Tree, Urban Cheescake, and You Bao.
DJs interested in playing at the venue are invited to contact Mr Dinning.
For more information, visit: bluecollarstreetfood.co.uk
