A brother and sister from Mt Eliza, a hot griddle in Camden Lock Market, and a Dutch street snack the UK had never properly met. This is how Stacked got stacked.
Kane and Jessica Harrison grew up in Mt Eliza, an hour south of Melbourne. Two foodies, one shared obsession with market culture, and a deep family-grade sweet tooth. After both moving to London — Jess via a six-month travel stint, Kane via sixteen — they finally did the thing they'd been talking about for years: opened a market stall.
In January 2013 they pitched up at Camden Lock Market with one product nobody in London was making properly — poffertjes. The bite-size Dutch pancakes that the Harrisons had grown up loving at the markets back in Melbourne. Within months they were open seven days a week.
What started as a single stall became a national rotation — Camden Lock, Southbank Christmas Market, Brick Lane, London Zoo's Sunset Safari, Whipsnade, Ealing Jazz Festival, Notting Hill Carnival, Grand Design Exhibition, Spitalfields, weddings, festivals, corporate functions. Thirteen years of cooking poffertjes fresh, in front of people, exactly the way they were meant to be eaten — together.
Now we've opened our first permanent kiosk at Bluewater. Same recipe. Same toothpicks-and-sharing ethos. Bigger stage.
From rented griddles to a national rollout. (We move fast when we're hungry.)
Jess and Kane pitch their first stall in January. Open seven days a week within weeks. Brick Lane, Notting Hill Carnival and Camden Christmas Market follow that same year.
The Stacked stall lands its longest-running residency — every winter at the Southbank from 2014 through 2021. London Zoo Sunset Safari starts the same summer.
A pop-up kiosk trades at Bluewater Shopping Centre — our first taste of shopping-centre life, and the seed of what comes next.
Grand Design Exhibition, Ealing Jazz, Whipsnade Zoo, Spitalfields, weddings and corporate gigs. A fully-formed events business operating alongside the markets.
After 13 years of stalls, we open our first permanent home — Bluewater Shopping Centre. More UK locations to follow.
Three things we'll never compromise on — even when it would be easier (and cheaper).
Every poffertje is griddled to order. We don't freeze, we don't pre-batch, we don't reheat. If we can't make it fresh today, we don't serve it today.
We don't do sad portions. We don't do "you can have one topping." Life's hard enough — your treat shouldn't be apologetic.
Open kitchens, no theatre curtains. Watch the pan, watch the flip, watch the sauce hit the stack. It's half the fun.
A small, very-caffeinated crew making the magic happen.
Mt Eliza native, sixteen-month traveller, hospitality-trained. Did the maths on a Camden stall and never looked back.
Kane's sister, the other half of the Mt Eliza obsession. Spent six months travelling before landing in London and saying yes to the stall.
Friendly, energetic, full of beans before opening time. Trained to flip poffertjes, talk toppings and read a queue.
No live vacancies right now — but we're growing, and we keep every good CV on file. Bring the energy, we'll bring the pan.
Marketing, ops, design — if you think Stacked needs you, pitch us anyway: kane@stackeduk.com
Cast-iron pans, fresh batter and a queue that never quite goes away.
