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The Cookhouse Street Food
The News, Portsmouth
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16/02/2025
The Cookhouse Street Food in Portsmouth, run by Ashley Cornish and his sister Danielle Cornish.
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Hi, I'm Ashley Cornish, this is Danielle Cornish, my sister, and we own the Cookhouse Street Food.
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We've been running this for about three years now, and Danielle can tell you why.
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I saw a film, it was based in America with lovely sunshine, and they've got a food truck and it
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looked so much fun, I thought let's give it a go, but didn't take the weather in mind, that's the
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only problem. Brilliant, so tell me what your sort of favourite food places are in the city?
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I am really enjoying the briny at the moment, I love fresh fish and I love what they're doing
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there, love the quality and stuff. Always have to shout out Dwayne at Broadway Coffee,
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he sort of gave us our first gig in Pompey and got us around, and then Staggeringly Good,
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they helped us loads as well, we love them guys. Fab, so tell me a little bit about what
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the Cookhouse brings to the city? So for us, the reason we need to do this is because we're
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passionate about food and we love eating, it's not, I would say, a generic burger van, there's
01:08
nothing wrong with that, but for us to be interested it was all about quality, and I believe we're
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building that brand now. And the fact that everything's made by us too, even down to the
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chips. Yeah, well I think we're the only mad people that actually make our own chips in this type of
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setup, and it can be testing at times. So tell me a little bit about your setup then, in terms of,
01:29
I understand you're obviously a food van and then you travel around the city or further afield?
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Yeah, so essentially at the moment we do, Victoria's Festival is our biggest one we do,
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then we do lots of private corporate events and that's what we're pushing for now, we really want
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to do sort of the festivals at weekends and corporates through the day. You do a lot at
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Southsie Common as well, don't we, when they have the fireworks? Yeah, that's for the Portsmouth
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Council. Yeah, cool, tell me what's the big seller on your menu? Well that's got to be the lamb
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filthy fries. It's a bit of a cult following now. Yeah, we've made our uniform, or James
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Madgwick, he made this for us, it's a really cool design, that's the lamb chopping up potato
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for the chips. That's, yeah, it's a lot of work goes into it, but the lamb filthy fries is
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definitely our best seller. So tell me what the future is for the cookhouse? So like previously
02:29
said, we're pushing the corporate now, we want to make that sort of at least 50% of our business,
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and then going forward hopefully you'll see the same brand, the cookhouse, but we'll be offering
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maybe the cookhouse coffee, things like that. We are in the process of building a commercial kitchen
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and then in the future having a coffee shop, but that takes a lot of money so
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that'll be a little while away yet. So what is lovely is the amount of support we've had from
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start up until now, starting on Hayling with all the regulars that we've had, coming over to
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Portsmouth, building more, and then Hampshire, and yeah it's been an amazing amount of people
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we've met and that's supported us from the start all the way to now.
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