UK Competition BBQ
Perdido Street Bacon is a UK competition barbecue team built on smoke, obsession and unreasonable standards.
The manifesto
We cook over fire.We occasionally win things.
We are not a restaurant, a catering company or a pair of men wearing matching aprons for the internet. We are a UK competition barbecue team chasing better bark, stranger ideas and the occasional trophy.
Our food is built from British ingredients, global influences and an unreasonable amount of discussion about sauce.
Smoke from the city below
Competition reports, improbable victories, expensive mistakes and everything we learned while standing in the rain beside a smoker.
SMOKE / FIRE / RAIN / REPEAT
Next competition
Three turn-ins, two smokers, one deeply overcomplicated pork dish. We are heading back into competition with a new glaze, a better plan and precisely the same amount of confidence.
The food
Not full recipes. Not trade secrets. Just the dishes that keep us awake and the ideas we cannot quite leave alone.
Big pork, heavy char and a finish that sits somewhere between competition precision and outright greed.
Sticky, lacquered and sweet-edged — the sort of thing that makes restraint feel unnecessary.
Low-and-slow meat, deep colour and exactly the right amount of collapse at the edges.
Bark, fat and smoke ring doing the talking — proof that the inside matters as much as the crust.
The team
Equal parts culinary ambition, poor decision-making and total confidence that the next adjustment will fix everything.
Flavour / detail / unnecessary flourish
Flavour development, detail and excessive deliberation over the final ten percent.
Known weakness: adding one more element after the plate is finished.
Fire / instinct / sensible objection
Fire management, instinct and the calm voice asking whether the dish genuinely needs one more element.
Known weakness: occasionally allowing Paul one more element.
Kindling
Kindling is Jared's conversation paper for the space around the barbecue: a single question, a few prompts and an excuse for people to put their phones down and actually talk.
Read it. Argue with it. Fold it badly. Then ball it up and throw it on the fire.
It is part social experiment, part firelighter, and exactly the kind of gloriously impractical idea we believe deserves more oxygen.
Partners, invitations and strange proposals
We work with brands, compete around the UK and are generally interested in anything involving smoke, storytelling or a very large piece of pork.
