Street Food Chef cooks up expansion to serve fourth Sheffield outlet

Sheffield’ Street Food Chef, which specialises in Mexican food, has taken a lease on a Sharrow Vale Road property to establish its fourth outlet in the city.

Street Food Chef was launched six years ago by Abi Golland, a former nursery teacher from Oxford, and her Sheffield-born husband Richard who spotted a gap in the market for Mexican cuisine.

Wake Smith, the Sheffield-based solicitors, advised on the lease for a former Sharrow Vale burger restaurant on behalf of Street Food Chef’s owners, who now operate out of outlets on Pinstone Street, Arundel Street and Glossop Road.

The new Street Food Chef outlet, located at 376 Sharrow Vale Road, will specialise in the company’s signature burritos, nachos, tacos, quesadillas and dips and is expected to start trading in July 2016.

Abi Golland, co-founder of Street Food Chef, said: “We always had the vision to create a string of outlets in Sheffield and the concept works really well here. Our locations are well positioned for the business community, students and people who are out shopping.

“Mexican food is really taking off in most cities and we identified the premises on Sharrow Vale Road as somewhere we really wanted to launch another Street Food Chef, but this meant quite a short time-frame for Wake Smith to deal with the lease requirements, so we are delighted that it all went smoothly.

“Sharrow Vale Road is a really vibrant, boutique shopping district and always seemed to be a natural location for us with its proximity to Ecclesall Road.”

Street Food Chef was initially launched as an event catering service and operating from a mobile catering van before moving into permanent premises.

Paul Gibbon, director at Wake Smith’s commercial property division, commented: “We were really pleased to be able to arrange the lease requirements for Street Food Chef’s latest expansion, especially in view of the short timeframe.

“The business model established by Abi and Richard works extremely well and they have developed a really devoted customer base across all of their sites and Sharrow Vale Road taps into another section of the city which has good footfall.”