Burrito bar launches newest site

SHEFFIELD is set for the newest site from Street Food Chef.

The Mexican eatery chain has taken up the former burger restaurant on Sharrow Vale Road. It will be its fourth in the city.

Sheffield solicitors Wake Smith advised on the lease on behalf of Street Food Chef’s owners, Abi Golland, a former nursery teacher from Oxford, and husband Richard.

The company already has outlets on Pinstone Street, Arundel Street and Glossop Road. It specialises in burritos, nachos, tacos, quesadillas and dips.

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 is in its sixth year, having started life 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, said: “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.”