Awesome food van bursts back onto the scene in Plymouth

William Telford

9 November 2024 at 11:00 am·2-min read

A food business on wheels which proved a huge hit during lockdown has returned to Plymouth with a much wider menu. Spriggy’s Street Food, based in a converted ice cream van, is once again serving tasty treats to walkers around Radford Lake.

The business was launched during the Covid pandemic as Spriggy’s Seafood, while owner Peter "Spriggy" Sprigg was furloughed from his printing industry job. But when he had to return to work full time he put the van, and his culinary skills, in mothballs.

Now, with Mr Sprigg just months from retirement, he has revved up the van again and has expanded his offering from seafood to street food. He’s still selling cockles, mussels, prawns, crab, scallops, oysters, crayfish tails and lobsters, but has added the likes of jumbo chilli dogs and wagyu burgers with smoked bacon and cheese.

His tagline is “locally sourced, world inspired”. Spriggy’s Street Food can be found near Radford Castle on Saturdays and Sundays, but from next spring will be there from Thursdays to Sundays.

“And we will still do events,” Mr Sprigg, aged 62, said. “We did a Halloween bat walk, we have a birthday party this week and will do weddings too.”

“There are also seafood platters which we deliver for Christmas, normally on Christmas Eve. A nice way to wish people a happy Christmas.”

Mr Sprigg is originally from London but moved to Plymouth and now lives “a hundred yards” from where his van is sited. He started the business when he struggled to find his beloved Cockney dish of cockles and mussels in Britain’s Ocean City.

“So the idea was to do seafood, but it has grown,” he said. “We’ve got scallop and bacon wraps, Indian spiced chicken wraps, Mexican minced beef tacos, panko squid, even Cornish sardines, and more.”

A jumbo chilli dog served by Spriggy's Street Food -Credit:Submitted

And Mr Sprigg said his business is as much about getting people out into the natural world as it is about providing them with great food.

“I want to get people walking the coastal path,” he said. “They can enjoy the environment, it’s on the South West Coast Path. There are 45 species of bird and the area is great for dog walking. I love it, meeting people, seeing them come back to me.”

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