Food market Blue Collar Corner is set to open today with a rooftop terrace and bar.

The highly-anticipated addition to Hosier Street is made entirely of shipping containers and boasts local tradespeople, a DJ and outdoor heat lamps.

The Reading Chronicle has taken an exclusive video tour of the quirky business before its doors open at 11am.

“I just think it’s exciting more than anything else,” said owner Glen, from Didcot.

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“I think the food traders we’ve got here are up there with some of the best in the UK in terms of Street Food”

“Hopefully there’s a few kind of different people that will come: those that love it because it’s a querky design, people who are in to drinking and then obviously foodies as well.

Blue Collar Corner will be open from 11am to 10.30 pm Thursday to Saturday and from 11am to 8pm on Sundays.