Street food in Cambridgeshire mostly happens in three ways. There are the old market squares, where hot food stalls now trade alongside the veg and the flowers. There are the food truck rotas, where a different van turns up on the same patch each evening and you order on your phone before you leave the house. And there are the summer evenings, when a town council or a park trust puts out deckchairs, books a band and fills a square with vans.
This guide covers twelve of them across Cambridge and the south, Huntingdonshire, and Ely, the Fens and Peterborough. We have only given days and times where the organiser’s own website confirms them, and for the seasonal events we have said when they usually happen and where to check for next year’s dates. Farmers’ markets have their own guide, so they are left out here.
Details were accurate at the time of research in November 2026. Food truck line-ups change weekly and events can be cancelled for weather, so please check the organiser’s website or social media before you travel.
Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire
Cambridge has the county’s only daily market and a street food collective that has been parking vans outside offices, stations and science parks for years. The newer neighbourhoods on the edge of the city, Eddington and Northstowe, have turned food trucks into a regular evening routine.
Cambridge Market, Market Hill
Outdoor activity
- Cambridge City Council runs the market on Market Hill every day of the year apart from Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day
- The council lists opening hours of 10am to 4pm, and street food stalls sit alongside fruit, vegetables, bread, flowers and general traders
- From Monday to Saturday it trades as the General Market, and on Sundays and bank holiday Mondays it becomes the Sunday Market, with around 100 stallholders setting up on a typical day
- Hot food covers a lot of ground, and stalls have included Thai noodles and Spanish paella
- Planning permission for a rebuild of the Market Square was granted on 2 September 2026, with 97 stalls in the new layout, 55 of them fixed with power and lighting
- Cambridge City Council plans to rebuild the Market Square and move the market to temporary stalls in nearby streets, including King’s Parade, Petty Cury and Sidney Street, while the work happens
- Full Council decides on 26 November 2026, and the council says the market would move in March 2027 if the plans are approved, so check cambridge.gov.uk before you visit
- There is no parking on Market Hill itself, so use the park and ride or walk in from the bus station
Address: Market Hill, Cambridge CB1 0SS
Website: cambridge.gov.uk/cambridge-market
Phone: 01223 457466 (market management)
How to book: No booking needed; stalls serve walk-up customers
Market Hill is where most people in Cambridge buy lunch on a working day without thinking of it as street food. The stalls are packed tight under striped awnings, Great St Mary’s looms over one side and the Guildhall over the other, and the queues tell you which stall is having a good week. Sunday is the better day for a slow browse, when the crowd is more local and less in a hurry. If the rebuild is approved, the market moves into nearby streets while the work happens, and the stall you liked may be round a corner rather than in the middle of the square.
foodPark Weekday Lunches, Cambridge
Outdoor activity
- foodPark is a Cambridge collective of independent street food traders, run by the same company as the evening food truck business Off the Beaten Truck
- On Wednesdays and Fridays vans trade at 3/4 Station Square by Cambridge station and on The Green and The Gardens at Cambridge Biomedical Campus, between Royal Papworth Hospital and AstraZeneca’s Discovery Centre
- The Biomedical Campus published a foodPark schedule for April 2026 with trucks serving from 12pm to 2pm on Wednesdays and Fridays
- On Thursdays vans park at Cambridge Science Park (Unit 332) and at One Cambridge Square by Cambridge North station
- Monthly sites include West Square at the University’s West Cambridge site on the first Wednesday, Wellcome Genome Campus at Hinxton on the first Thursday and CAMLIFE at Fulbourn on the third Thursday
- The van changes each week, and foodPark’s This Week page shows who is coming and where
- Many traders take pre-orders online, which saves standing in a lunchtime queue
- Campus sites are workplaces first, so check foodPark’s listing before making a special trip to one
Address: Sites across Cambridge, including 3/4 Station Square, Cambridge CB1 2GB and One Cambridge Square, Cambridge CB4 0AE
Website: foodparkcam.com
How to book: Walk up, or pre-order through the links on foodPark’s This Week page
foodPark has been feeding Cambridge office workers from the kerb for years. The model is simple: one or two vans, a regular patch and a rota that means a different cuisine turns up from one week to the next. Station Square is the easiest site for a visitor, as it sits right outside the main station. The sites at the science parks and campuses are built around staff lunch breaks, so they are at their busiest just after noon. If you are commuting through Cambridge North on a Thursday, it is worth checking who is parked outside before you buy a sandwich.
foodPark at Eddington
Outdoor activity
- Eddington is the new University of Cambridge neighbourhood off Huntingdon Road and Madingley Road in north west Cambridge
- foodPark brings food trucks to Market Square, Eddington Avenue, on the second Wednesday and the last Saturday of each month
- foodPark lists the Eddington evenings as running from 5pm to 8pm
- Eddington’s own website says the collective now brings twice as many trucks as it used to
- You can walk up or pre-order online, and the line-up changes each time, so check foodPark’s Instagram or This Week page before you go
- The trucks park on the square itself, so there is space to stand and eat rather than queue on a pavement
- Off the Beaten Truck, foodPark’s sister business, runs the evening sites
Address: Market Square, Eddington Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0EU
Website: foodparkcam.com and eddington-cambridge.co.uk
How to book: Walk up, or pre-order online through foodPark
Eddington is still finding its feet as a place, and the food truck evenings are one of the things that make it feel like a neighbourhood rather than a building site. On a good evening families spread out around the square while the queue forms. It is twice a month rather than weekly, which means the last Saturday in particular tends to draw people from across the west of the city. Come on foot or by bike if you can. On a cold night, eat and go, as the square has little shelter.
Off the Beaten Truck, Northstowe
Outdoor activity
- Northstowe is the new town being built between Longstanton and Oakington, north west of Cambridge
- Off the Beaten Truck parks a food truck at The Cabin on The Green on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings
- Serving hours are 5pm to 8pm on each of those evenings
- A different trader comes each night; the first week of November 2026 brought pizza, hand-made scotch eggs, Tibetan momo dumplings and South African and Jamaican fusion food
- Some trucks are walk-up only and others take orders online or through Facebook and Instagram, and the website says which is which for each night
- The operator’s website occasionally lists a night with no truck, so check the listing on the day
- Off the Beaten Truck runs similar weekly evenings at Alconbury Weald and Wintringham in Huntingdonshire
Address: The Cabin, The Green, Northstowe CB24 1AA
Website: offthebeatentruck.co.uk/northstowe
How to book: Walk up or order ahead, depending on the night’s trader; details are on the website
Northstowe has fewer restaurants than its population deserves, and the four-night food truck rota fills that gap with something more interesting than a takeaway menu. Setting up on The Green puts the trucks in the middle of the town, so most residents can walk there. The quality varies with the trader, which is part of the fun. Check the website in the afternoon, decide whose night it is, and pre-order if the truck allows it, because the queue builds quickly at 6pm.
Huntingdonshire and the Great Ouse Valley
Huntingdonshire’s street food has followed its new housing. The big developments at Alconbury Weald and Wintringham have weekly food truck evenings, while Huntingdon’s town council has turned its Market Square into a summer evening venue.
Off the Beaten Truck, Alconbury Weald
Outdoor activity
- Alconbury Weald is the new community on the former RAF Alconbury airfield, just north of Huntingdon
- Off the Beaten Truck parks a food truck outside Swynford Coffee on Swynford Road on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings from 5pm to 8pm
- The trucks moved here from the Co-op from Thursday 10 September 2026, so older directions may send you to the wrong spot
- Alconbury Weald’s own website points visitors to the car park near Swynford Coffee if they are driving to collect an order
- The first weekend of November 2026 brought smoked burgers on the Thursday and fish and chips on the Friday, with no truck on the Saturday, so check the listing before you go
- Alconbury Weald also holds a yearly Food Festival on Watch Office Green; the 2026 festival in June drew more than 2,500 people, its biggest yet
- Food Festival dates for 2027 have not been published, so watch the Alconbury Weald website
Address: Swynford Coffee, Swynford Road, Alconbury Weald, Huntingdon PE28 4XG
Website: offthebeatentruck.co.uk/alconbury and alconbury-weald.co.uk
How to book: Walk up or order online, depending on the night’s trader
Alconbury Weald still has the wide, flat feel of the airfield it was built on, and the food truck nights give its residents somewhere to bump into each other. The weekly trucks are aimed at people who live there, so treat it as a handy dinner stop on the A14 or A1(M) rather than a destination. The Food Festival in June is the one to travel for, and plenty of its traders sold out in 2026. Arrive early on festival day if there is a particular stall you want.
Off the Beaten Truck, Wintringham, St Neots
Outdoor activity
- Wintringham is the new neighbourhood on the eastern edge of St Neots, east of the railway line
- Off the Beaten Truck lists Friday evenings from 5pm to 8pm at The Plaza outside Wintringham Primary Academy
- The listing for the first week of November 2026 also showed morning coffee and pancake vans and an extra Thursday sushi truck, so the rota can stretch beyond Friday
- Neapolitan pizza, sushi and Dutch pancakes were all on the November 2026 schedule
- Each trader sets its own ordering, with some walk-up only and some taking online orders
- Wintringham held a summer pop-up street food evening at The Plaza in 2026 with Urban and Civic and Off the Beaten Truck, with a DJ and a vintage bus bar
- The Plaza is a paved space in front of the school, so expect families straight after the school week ends on a Friday
Address: The Plaza, Wintringham Primary Academy, St Neots PE19 0AW
Website: offthebeatentruck.co.uk/wintringham
How to book: Walk up or order online, depending on the night’s trader
Friday food trucks at Wintringham have become part of the end of the week for families on the east side of St Neots. The setting is plain, a paved plaza by a new school, but the traders come from the same pool of independents that foodPark uses around Cambridge. It is a good option if you are coming off the A428 or the A1 and want something better than a drive-through. The summer pop-ups are the bigger nights, with music and a bar, and Wintringham’s own website announces them. For a full evening, park once and walk into St Neots town centre and down to the river afterwards.
Sunset Beats and Bites, Huntingdon
Outdoor activity
- A series of free summer evenings on Huntingdon’s Market Square with street food vendors, live music and deckchairs
- It is run by Huntingdon Town Council in partnership with Huntingdon First
- The 2026 series opened on Friday 22 May with acoustic music from local duo Charlie and Rehanna
- In 2025 the evenings ran on four Fridays between May and August from 4pm to 9pm, with traders including Jez Guyanese Cuisine, Scotties Hot Scotch Eggs and Collette’s Crepes
- The town council has not yet published 2027 dates, so check its events page in spring
- Deckchairs are set out on the square, and the evenings are pitched at families as well as adults
Address: Market Square, Huntingdon PE29 3NR
Website: huntingdontown.gov.uk
How to book: No booking needed; entry is free
Huntingdon’s Market Square is busy on market mornings and quiet in the evening, and Sunset Beats and Bites is a deliberate attempt to change that. It works because it is small and unpretentious: half a dozen vans, a bar, a local act and the deckchairs set out in rows facing the music. The Cromwell Museum and All Saints’ Church frame the square, which gives it more character than a car park pop-up. Arrive around six, when the food is in full swing and before the queues for the dessert van get long. Huntingdon station is about ten minutes’ walk away, so you can leave the car at home.
Ely, the Fens and Peterborough
Ely has turned its Market Place into the county’s busiest street food square outside Cambridge, with something cooking on most days of the week. Further north, Peterborough’s big park and its cathedral square host the summer and seasonal events, while Wisbech has a food festival built around Fenland producers.
Ely Markets: Weekend Street Food
Outdoor activity
- Ely Markets is run by the East Cambs Trading Company, the trading arm of East Cambridgeshire District Council, on the Market Place below the cathedral
- The Saturday Craft, Food and Vintage Market runs every week from 8:30am to 3:30pm, with street food including Thai and Lebanese stalls alongside antiques, books and handmade goods
- Coach operator Shaws said in June 2026 that Saturday street food includes Mexican and Brazilian dishes
- The Sunday market runs from 10am to 3pm, with street food, plants, vinyl, vintage collectables and a fairground ride for children
- The Thursday Charter Market also has street food stalls among the produce and household goods, from 8:30am to 3:30pm
- Tibet Flavour, which sells momos, curries and noodles, has traded at Ely Market
- The Saturday food stalls trade every week, including the farmers’ market Saturdays, so the second and fourth Saturdays bring the widest choice of food in one trip
- Ely station is about 15 minutes’ walk uphill to the Market Place
Address: Market Place, Ely
Website: elymarkets.co.uk
How to book: No booking needed
The Market Place sits right under the cathedral, and on a Saturday lunchtime the queues for hot food run right across the square. Our market towns guide covers the history and the parking, so here is the food angle. Saturday has the most hot food and the most people. Sunday is calmer and better with small children, thanks to the fairground ride and a slightly later start. If the weather turns, the cathedral and the cafés on Fore Hill are a minute away.
Foodie Friday, Ely
Outdoor activity
- An evening street food market on Ely’s Market Place on the last Friday of the month from April to August
- Ely Markets lists Foodie Friday as running from 4pm to 8:30pm, with a large covered seating area
- Cambridge Edition described Foodie Friday in June 2025 as more than 20 food vans, with plenty of benches and live music
- East Cambridgeshire District Council promoted Foodie Fridays for 2025 as street food from around the world with live music from local artists
- The 2026 season has finished; 2027 dates are not yet listed, so check the Ely Markets website from March
- Past traders have included waffles, salt beef beigels, momos, paella and wood-fired pizza, with vegan options
- It is free to get in, and you pay each trader for what you eat
Address: Market Place, Ely
Website: elymarkets.co.uk
How to book: No booking needed; entry is free
Foodie Friday is the best night out on Ely’s Market Place, and it has grown steadily since it was relaunched in 2023. The covered seating means a summer shower does not empty the square, and the live music keeps people lingering long after they have eaten. It is a good one for groups who cannot agree on what to eat, as twenty vans covers most arguments. Go before six if you want a seat under cover.
Foodie Fridays at Ferry Meadows, Peterborough
Outdoor activity
- A weekly summer street food evening run by the Nene Park Trust at Ferry Meadows, Peterborough’s biggest country park
- In 2026 it ran every Friday from 5 June to the end of September, at a new spot outside the Visitor Centre
- Food vendors served from 3pm to 8pm, with live music from 5pm to 8pm, and the 8pm finish depends on the weather
- Entry is free, but the park’s normal car parking charges apply to every vehicle
- Traders and musicians change every week; the final night on 25 September 2026 included Romanian grilled food, sushi with a Brazilian twist, Afro-Caribbean soul food, Hungarian pancakes and ice cream, with an 80s and 90s DJ set to close the season
- A resident craft bar serves drinks alongside the food vans
- The Trust has not yet published 2027 dates, so check its events page in late spring
- The Visitor Centre has toilets, and the lakeside paths make it easy to walk off dinner afterwards
Address: Visitor Centre, Ferry Meadows, Peterborough
Website: nenepark.org.uk
How to book: No booking needed; entry is free and parking is paid
Foodie Fridays turns a summer evening at Ferry Meadows into something more than a walk round Overton Lake. Peterborough families come straight from work and school, spread out on the grass and work through the vans one at a time. The line-up leans heavily on Peterborough’s mix of cultures, so expect Romanian grills and Afro-Caribbean soul food alongside the burgers. Arrive by bike along the park paths if you live nearby and save the parking fee.
Peterborough Vegan Market, Cathedral Square
Outdoor activity
- A plant-based street food and makers’ market that takes over Cathedral Square in Peterborough city centre for one day a year
- The organiser, Vegan Markets, lists hours of 10:30am to 4:30pm
- Stalls include vegan street food vendors, artisan bakers, ethical jewellers, local artists and environmental charities
- The organiser has not yet announced the next date, so watch veganmarkets.co.uk
- The organiser says the event is fully accessible and well-behaved dogs are welcome
- Cathedral Square is a few minutes’ walk from Peterborough station and the Queensgate bus station
- You do not need to be vegan to go, and plenty of visitors come for the food alone
Address: Cathedral Square, Peterborough PE1 1XH
Website: veganmarkets.co.uk
How to book: No booking needed
Cathedral Square is Peterborough’s main public space, with the Guildhall on its columns at one end and the cathedral gateway behind, and the vegan market fills it properly. The food is the main draw, with vans and stalls doing plant-based versions of street food standards and a good few things you will not find elsewhere in the city. It runs on one day a year, which keeps the crowds up. Combine it with a look round the cathedral precincts through the gateway. Check the organiser’s calendar in the new year for the next date.
Fenland Food Festival, Wisbech
Indoor and outdoor
- A free one-day festival of Fenland food at the Queen Mary Centre in Wisbech, hosted by the Ferry Project Cookery School
- The 2026 festival was held on Saturday 5 September from 10am to 3pm, sponsored by Fenmarc
- A Street Food Zone of food vans sits alongside a food market of around 20 stalls from local producers and organisations
- In 2026 the Street Food Zone served goat curry and jerk chicken, hog roast, gourmet wraps and dirty fries, hot crumbles and brownies, and barista coffee
- The 2025 festival added the Street Food Zone for the first time, with tastings, cookery demonstrations, talks and have-a-go sessions alongside
- Live music sets ran through the day, and some stalls are run by advice services rather than food sellers
- The festival is usually held in early September; 2027 dates have not been announced, so check the Ferry Project website
Address: Queen Mary Centre, Wisbech PE13 2PE
Website: ferryproject.org.uk
How to book: No booking needed; entry is free
The Fenland Food Festival is small, local and run by a charity, and that is exactly why it is worth a trip north. The Ferry Project’s cookery school uses it to show off what the Fens grow and make, so the market side is full of growers, bakers and producers you will not see at the Cambridge events. The Street Food Zone keeps everyone fed while they browse. Wisbech is a town that rewards an afternoon’s wander, with the Georgian Brinks along the Nene and Peckover House a short walk from the centre. Make a day of it rather than eating and leaving.
Seasonal Highlights
Spring: Ely’s Foodie Friday season normally starts on the last Friday in April, Huntingdon’s Sunset Beats and Bites opened on 22 May in 2026, and Cambridge Food and Drink Week, run by Cambridge BID, filled the city’s restaurants and cafés with offers and tastings from 9 to 17 May 2026.
Summer: Foodie Fridays at Ferry Meadows every Friday from early June to the end of September, the Alconbury Weald Food Festival in June (13 June in 2026), and the last Foodie Friday of the Ely season in late August.
Autumn: The Fenland Food Festival in Wisbech in early September (5 September in 2026) and the last Ferry Meadows Foodie Friday at the end of September.
Winter: The weekly food truck evenings at Northstowe, Alconbury Weald and Wintringham carry on through the dark months, Cambridge Market trades every day except Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day, and Full Council decides on 26 November 2026 whether to rebuild the Market Square.
A Note From Inside Cambridge
Street food moves faster than any other part of the county’s food scene. Vans change pitches, rotas change weekly and a good trader can disappear for the winter, so treat this guide as a map of where to look rather than a menu.
If you run a regular street food night we have missed, or you trade at one of these sites and something has changed, please get in touch. We would love to add more of the Fens and Huntingdonshire next time.
Before You Go
- Check the operator’s website on the day for food truck sites, as Off the Beaten Truck and foodPark change traders every night and sometimes have nights with no truck
- Pre-order where the trader allows it, especially between 6pm and 7pm at Northstowe, Alconbury Weald and Wintringham
- Bring a card and some cash, as payment methods are set by each trader rather than the organiser
- Cambridge City Council plans to rebuild the Market Square and move the market to temporary stalls in nearby streets, including King’s Parade, Petty Cury and Sidney Street, while the work happens. Full Council decides on 26 November 2026, and the council says the market would move in March 2027 if the plans are approved, so check cambridge.gov.uk before you visit
- Ferry Meadows charges every vehicle for parking, including on Foodie Fridays, so factor that in or arrive by bike
- Evening events on open squares and green spaces are exposed, so take a coat even in summer and expect weather cancellations
- Peterborough City Market on Bridge Street is open Tuesday to Saturday from 8:30am to 4pm, but its food hall is butchers, a fishmonger and a deli rather than hot street food
- Summer evening series in Huntingdon, Ely and Ferry Meadows publish their dates each spring, so check the organisers’ websites from March
