03-07-2025
Hugely popular burger van owner opening new restaurant
Hugely popular burger van owner opening new restaurant
He will join forces with his fiancée's thriving food business to open their first restaurant together
Outside the new business which opens on July 30
(Image: Phil Fraser )
A hugely popular burger van owner is joining forces with his fiancée, who runs her own thriving food business, to open their very first restaurant together. Phil Fraser's Food Anarchy has won legions of fans who have followed his van around its regular locations at Dunvant, Gorseinon, Marina Market, and Mumbles Market, with popular menu items including gourmet burgers, loaded hash browns, and loaded fries.
Mr Fraser's fiancée Katie Powlson is also a favourite at food markets with her business Happy Little Cake Company serving up an array of cakes and sweet treats. Now the pair have decided to team up and launch their first business Fully Loaded.
Based in High Street in Gorseinon it will officially open its doors on Wednesday, July 30, and will trade from Wednesday until Saturday from 9.30am until 2.30pm. It will serve up loaded hash browns, loaded fries, sandos, cakes, and bakes.
A queue forms outside Food Anarchy at Swansea Marina Market
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Discussing the new venture Phil said: "It is a collaboration between Katie's company and mine. We've wanted a property for a while and this was Katie's brainchild. Someone from the market gave us the heads-up of this property and we went and saw it then started putting it together.
"With Gorseinon being so good to us with the van on a Friday night it felt well worth a go. There's going to be the loaded hash browns, loaded fries, and instead of doing burgers we'll be doing sandos to make it more of a daytime thing. From Katie's side we'll be doing cakes and bakes and we have a coffee element coming in as well.
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"The sandos are not going to be your standard tuna mayo sandwich. For instance we had the Nigella burger and we can do a version of that in a sandwich. It'll be unapologetic big-flavoured sandwiches.
"There will be brownies and blondies and tarts and things like that, and I know Katie wants to do fresh cinnamon rolls daily."
Loaded hash browns will be sold at Fully Loaded
(Image: Phil Fraser )
Sandos will also be on the menu
(Image: Phil Fraser )
Describing why they picked Gorseinon as a location Phil said: "Gorseinon is just fantastic. The people have been so supportive of it and the reaction online, or from people coming up to the van, we always have people asking: 'When's the shop opening?'.
"It sounds like we've got quite a bit of support but all we can do is give it a go. You can do everything right and still fail but if you don't give it a go you're never going to have a chance.
"It's not going to be your traditional café but it will be somewhere you can go and get some really good food or a coffee and a cake, completely unpretentious.
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"The food van will carry on as usual on Tuesday nights in season at Dunvant, Fridays outside Toasted, and Sundays at the markets. We're going to try not to affect our businesses too much – it's just a case of having a base now and somewhere we can work from.
"It feels very natural. We've been ready for this for a while but you've got to wait for the right opportunity."
