London Connect

Our recent feature on street food saw us trudging the pavements, following our noses and hunting down some of the best on-the-hoof food to be found in the city. Although buttoned-up health and safety bores have ensured Britain doesn't have the spontaneous and vibrant street-eating culture of, say, Thailand or South America, we were still impressed by the amount of quality stalls we found. In fact, there were too many to digest in one sitting, so here's a second helping - some more great places to find street food in London.

Greenwich market

Situated in the middle of historic and villagey Greenwich, the market is a slightly more manageable and compact version of Borough Market. Only slightly though - it does get very busy here (as does the whole of Greenwich), especially on a hot summer's afternoon, and the stalls are fairly packed in. You're best to fight your way through the crowds, grab your grub and retreat to the peace of Greenwich Park or to Cutty Sark Gardens, where you can look out across the Thames to the steel and glass megaliths of Canary Wharf.

The market has the underfoot cobbles and overhead arched iron beams and glass of its SE1 big brother Borough - the present structure was erected in 1908 on the site of a much older trading site. About half the market is given over to various art and craft stalls, but fine foods are well represented here - the gourmet coffee roaster and the Organic Café bakery stalls are well worth a look. If your eating needs are more immediate, though, fear not - there's an exceptional selection of food to go. You could visit every weekend for months and never eat the same thing twice, but there are a few which stand out.

At the market's north entrance, one of the first stalls is Son of Pampa. There's a hot grill on one side for Argentinean-style chivitos (barbecue sandwiches): filled with imported grass-fed beef steak or free-range marinated chicken, chimichurri sauce and salad, and served on a hand-made ciabatta for £4. On the other side, a little fryer is kept busy making fresh churros - deep fried sticks of dough, filled with dulce de leche (caramel sauce) or chocolate, rolled in sugar and cinnamon (£2). This colourful and bustling stall usually draws the biggest weekend queues in the market.

Just to the left is Sausages Ltd, which does a spicy Louisiana-style Creole sausage sandwich with roast peppers and onions for £4. For afters, there's longstanding market favourite The Real Baking Company, with its picture-perfect display of beautiful home-made cupcakes and other sweet treats which start at £1.80. And at the opposite end, next to quaint Turnpin Lane, there's Juicy Bar, which squeezes combinations from its greengrocer-style display of fruit into a glass for £3.

Apart from the main market, there have been other concentrations of stalls dotted around Maritime Greenwich over the years, but at the moment there's only one permanent set-up. It's rather optimistically called Fountain Food Court, and it's found near the Antiques Market, stuck incongruously between the railway line and a Natwest. There's a few outdoor tables between small stalls offering cheap but rather undistinguished Thai, Chinese and burger bar-style options, although the recently opened Baguette + More deserves a mention for jointly pioneering the unusual banh mi Vietnamese sandwich.

Also, at the far end look for Goddards, the surviving outlet of the pie and mash business founded in 1890 in Deptford. Expect good-quality renditions of the traditional bill of meat pie and mash with liquor (£3), jellied eels and fruit pies - all at the loose change prices you'd expect for these age-old London victuals. Goddard's is open at weekends from 9.30am to 6pm.

Greenwich Market, SE10 (www.greenwichmarket.net). Cutty Sark DLR. Food stalls open 11am-6pm Wed; 10am-5.30pm Sat, Sun.

Leather Lane, Clerkenwell

If you have a hankering for a burrito as well as a cheap handbag, Leather Lane is the place to be. Nestled among the bric-à-brac, cheap shoes and pinafores is this behemoth of an operation – Daddy Donkey is a self-proclaimed ‘kick-ass Mexican grill’. Started by Joel Henderson in 2005, the stall has grown massively over the past few years but has still managed to keep the quality of its offerings consistent. Whether you’re having the cutely named ‘three amigos’ (three small tacos), a ‘naked burrito’ (sans tortilla, replaced with salad) or the Daddy D burrito, choose from six fillings (a step above other burrito stalls), including tomatillo beef (shredded beef cooked with green tomatillos and lime salsa, £5.95) or picodillo (ground beef cooked with garlic, onion, paprika, cumin, oregano, chipotle and tomato, £5.50). The combinations are endless, but there is one constant – be prepared to queue.

Daddy Donkey, pitch 100-101, Leather Lane Market, EC1N 7TE. 11am-2.30pm Mon-Wed; 11am-3pm Thur-Fri.

Goodge Place, Fitzrovia

Fitzrovia bulges with restaurants and cafés to sate hungry office lunchers, but Goodge Place offers a more informal option for those with less time on their hands or cash in their pockets. Along with the Gourmet Kitchen Cantonese food trailer ‘Express Hong Kong Lunch Box’, the to-the-point Simply Thai, and the Hoxton Beach falafel stall (also at Whitecross Street), there’s Selyus (see also below). Our pick, however, is Freebird, found in several locations around the city. Their versions of burritos are some of the best we’ve come across.

Goodge Place, W1T. Open 12.45-2.15pm Mon-Fri (times may vary).

Northcote Road, Battersea

The Breadstall is a hugely popular trailer-style mobile bakery for oven-fresh pizza, fine patisserie and top-notch sausage rolls and pies.

Pitch in front of 64 Northcote Rd, SW11 6QL. 6am-7pm daily.

Earlham Street, Covent Garden

The Selyus stall has a salad counter from which the Turkish stallholders will fill a plastic takeaway box for only £4. You can choose from stuffed, dried aubergines, stuffed vine leaves, houmous, a choice of olives and many types of salad vegetables.

Pitch in front of 10 Earlham St, WC2H 9LN. 10.30am-2.30pm Mon-Fri.

Chapel Market, Islington

The quality of the relatively few hot food stalls at this diminutive market is quite impressive. The Naked Sausage, on the left just up from Liverpool Road, sells hefty own-made half-pound burgers that are satisfyingly juicy (£3.50), though less inspiring is the ratio of sauce (lots) to salad (none). Further up is Fired Up, which sells a range of barbecued meats, slapped on a giant bun along with your choice of grilled Mediterranean veg or raw salad (£5). An oriental element is provided by Yin Cheng, selling various dim sum (£1.50-£4); try the steamed pork and prawn siu mai.

Chapel Market, N1 9EN. 9am-3.30pm Tue-Wed, Fri; 9am-1pm Thur, Sun. Weekends are the busiest times.

Berwick Street, Soho

It’s no coincidence that Soho’s last really diverse street should be the one that hosts the local market. One of the highlights is the Bread Man stall, usually pitched at the top of the market outside the Endurance pub. Bread and pastry both savoury and sweet can be purchased here, from hot sausage or salt beef bagels (£2) to huge apple-filled doughnuts or Portuguese custard tarts, all at bargain prices.

Berwick Street, W1F. Open Mon-Fri, times may vary.

Camden markets

Although Camden still has more T-shirt stalls (‘Nobody Knows I’m a Lesbian’) than food stalls, there are a couple of outdoor eateries worth heading to. The unambiguously titled Moroccan Food, just inside Stables Market in the middle of Market Hall (west of Camden High Street), does a surprisingly good chickpea tagine (£4), while buried at the bottom left corner of Canal Market (west of Camden High St) is Cupcakes Indeed, a delightful little stall serving vibrantly colourful own-made cakes (£1.50 each, £5 for 4).

Camden High St, NW1 (Markets are either side of Camden High St just across the bridge). Food stalls open around lunchtime (approx midday), Canal market and Camden Lock Market stalls close from about 8pm and 10pm, Stables Market stalls close earlier, closer to 6pm.