Find your favourite street-food stalls with a new app (Picture: British Street Food Awards 2012)
Find your favourite street-food stalls with a new app (Picture: British Street Food Awards 2012)

A new app will help you locate street-food stalls and raise your glasses filled with sophisticated sherry.

What’s new
With the flurry of colourful street-food stalls and vans appearing across our cities comes a much-needed app. Launching on June 1, it gives the most up-to-date information on opening hours, locations and special offers. For phone geeks and foodies alike, it’s particularly pleasing that users can rate the food and take snaps. Those ratings will go towards a regular top 10 of British Street Food. Follow @BritStreetFood on Twitter.

Be quick if you’re a sherry fiend – not the sweet, granny’s tipple, the sophisticated dry stuff – the 2013 Tio Pepe Fino En Rama is now on sale. It’s different from ordinary chilled Spanish fino from Jerez because it’s bottled in its natural, unfiltered state, giving it distinctive ‘flor’ (yeast) and toasted almond nuances. Serve it fridge-cold. It’s £14.99, from www.bbr.com, Majestic (selected stores) and www.adnams.co.uk among others.

In season: The Alphonso Mango 
If you’re bored of the unripened fruit commonly on sale in supermarkets, look no further than the coveted alphonso mango, only available for the next few weeks. From Mumbai to Gujarat, the most discerning palates adore this curvy-bellied fruit, known as ‘the king of mangoes’. Eat raw from the hand or serve as a decadent pud with sticky rice. Mix a pinch of salt with a sachet of coconut cream.

Over a very low heat, put it all in a saucepan and dissolve 2tbsp sugar, stirring all the time. Add 20ml water if needed. Serve with the mango. A shortcut is drizzling condensed milk into the sticky rice. For a sweet and sour savoury kick, you can garnish curries with a few slices.