Yorkshire to Kansas City: Brit Boy Street Food Featured on KCTV5
KCTV5 wanted to know what England picking Kansas City meant to an actual Englishman running a food business here.
Brit Boy Street Food ·
When England announced Kansas City as their 2026 World Cup base camp, KCTV5 went looking for a local reaction. They found a Yorkshireman making British pies in the Northland.
Why they came to us
There aren’t many British businesses in Kansas City. When a story breaks about the England national team moving into town for a summer, the list of people who can speak to both sides of it is short.
Chris grew up in Leeds. He came to the States in 2007 on a soccer scholarship, which means the football part isn’t a marketing angle — it’s how he got here in the first place.
The distance in the headline
“Yorkshire to Kansas City” is about 4,000 miles, and it’s a stranger journey than a news segment has room for.
Chris didn’t come here to open a food business. He came to play football, stayed, built a marketing company with Lizzie, lost it to Covid, took a corporate job, and lost that too — the full version is in the VoyageKC interview.
Brit Boy started in March 2025. Less than a year later he was on local television talking about the England squad. Football brought him to Kansas City and then, in a very roundabout way, brought Kansas City to him.
What it meant for a small business
A base camp isn’t just a training ground. It’s a press corps, a support staff, travelling supporters, and a lot of English people a long way from home for several weeks.
For a business built on the idea that British food should be available in the Midwest, the timing was hard to believe.
What happened next was stranger than the announcement — we ended up feeding the press room and, eventually, the players.
Yorkshire on the menu
The Yorkshire connection isn’t decorative. Our recipes come from Chris’s mum, a home economics teacher, and they’re the ones he grew up with:
- Shepherd’s Pie — lamb-led, with the ratio worked out over a lot of attempts
- Steak, Ale & Mushroom — beef braised in dark ale
- Sausage rolls — sage, black pepper and nutmeg, in butter pastry
All of it available frozen for collection around Kansas City or overnight shipping nationwide.
The KCTV5 segment is here. More coverage from that week on our press page.