London vegan news, reviews & events
Honestly, you could eat out every day and night of the week in Glasgow and you wouldn’t run out of vegan options.
I’ve written about The 78 in the past, but check out the latest tasty dishes my group devoured during our recent stop. This fabulous pub/restaurant is definitely something you want to experience.
Every town should have a Screaming Carrot.
My recent stop in Nottingham opened my eyes to some marvellous things, not least a workers’ co-op vegan bakery and grocery store named The Screaming Carrot.
Tucked away down a small road in a quiet suburb, The Screaming Carrot is a one-stop shop for all your vegan pantry needs and sweet treats.
Slowly. Inch by painstaking inch. London is finally getting vegan food options that are worthy of the international stage. We have been behind cities such as Berlin, Los Angeles, New York and Warsaw for so long but the tide is turning.
As this vegan wave builds, Phil T is riding high on a longboard with two of the best plant based dishes in the city. You just have to try these incredible plates.
I wrote about Phil T a while back when he took over the kitchen of a rock music venue on Holloway Road but this celebrated chef has moved on to another rock and roll pub, this time in Camden.
You can now find Phil T’s Kitchen at Our Black Heart, a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it rock and roll venue/specialist beer bar tucked away in a back alley pretending to be a street in the central London neighbourhood of Camden.
So what is Phil T serving that has got me all in a squirm?
I’ve found the best vegan nachos in Europe. Tell everyone.
The Auld Hoose is a pub in Edinburgh with a very impressive vegan menu nestled within its non-vegan offerings. You think you’ve had awesome vegan comfort food? Take a look at what our group ordered on a rainy Scottish night, including the biggest and best nachos I’ver ever been served in Europe.
This is a massive blog post. Actually, scratch that. It is a MASSIVE blog post.
Get your scrolling finger ready and dive head first into this incredibly interesting interview I recently conducted with the fabulous Marc Massive of the band Massive Ego.
We talk music, Boy George, veganism, fashion, love and more.
This is one of my favourite posts in a long time so I’m sure you’ll love the read, too.
Do you all remember when we helped a young person named Alex with a school marketing project involving a collection of his vegan recipes? Sure you do!
Alex went on to have the most successful project in his school and was shortlisted as a finalist in a business competition run in Sheffield.
Flash forward to last night and I met up with Alex and his mum for dinner in London!
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I’ve not written a Berlin blog post for a couple of weeks, and I’m not going to write one this week either because I’ve been in Copenhagen, so I’ll write about that instead!
First of all, I was surprised at the scarcity of vegan places in Copenhagen. Perhaps I’ve been spoiled by Berlin’s seemingly endless array of vegan food, but compared to other European capitals of a similar size, Copenhagen felt lacking.
My favourite place of the trip was the Astrid och Aporna Spiseri which translates roughly to “Astrid and the Monkeys’ eatery”. It’s an all-vegan burger-and-hot-dog place, and very nice it was too. Unfortunately the chip fryer was out of order when we were there, but the burger was large and tasty.
Astrid och Aporna also have a vegan grocery store/cafe in Copenhagen, which is really clean and bright with a wide range of vegan groceries, toiletries, etc. (We were particularly excited to find Fentimans fizzy drinks as they were a favourite treat of ours in the UK!). They sell a lot of VBites products which have been rebranded by Astrid och Aporna with wonderful cartoons on the labels. I really like the designs, very fresh and happy.
Also well worth visiting is a brand-new vegan ice-cream shop called NiceCream. They sell ice-cream as a lolly on a stick, no scoops here. There are many flavours, we shared one peanut butter and chocolate, and one toffee strawberry. They were really tasty! Highly recommended.
Copenhagen has four raw vegan places and we visited one café called Raw 42. I’m not a fan of raw food as a concept as it feels to me like a fad diet tacked on to veganism’s moral and ethical standpoint, but the sandwich I had was very tasty with lots of avocado, which is always a winner. We also had a tasty tomato stroganoff (which was hot, so perhaps this raw thing isn’t what I thought it was anyway?).
The one non-vegan place we bought food from was right near our apartment, a pizza take-away called Express Pizza. They had a separate vegan menu with a range of vegan pizzas, plus a wrap and a sandwich. It was a good pizza although nothing to get too excited about, unless you’re a hungry vegan in Copenhagen.
There are more vegan-friendly places in Copenhagen which we didn’t have time to visit, including a café in Christiania which a few people have mentioned to us and is apparently almost fully vegan, so if you have any recommendations let us know in the comments.
The votes have been counted, the floors have been mopped and I am thrilled to announce the winners of Best Beer in Show and Best Overall Brewery as voted by attendees of London Vegan Beer Fest 2015.
Hold on to your pints.
Drum roll for best beer in show as voted by attendees of London Vegan Beer Fest 2015.
I was once awarded the runner up ribbon in a creative writing competition as a child and everyone took great delight in telling me the thrill actually existed in the nomination.
I expect to hear that phrase a lot this year after discovering I have been nominated in the VegfestUK Awards.
You can check out my insurmountable competition in the Best Vegan Lifestyle Website category by clicking here. Not sure if I’ll enjoy losing to Viva!, Animal Aid or The Vegan Society more but of course the real pleasure is in the nomination.
Thanks, VegfestUK!
