Read this menu and then click to buy your tickets IMMEDIATELY because this is gonna sell out quickly.
Essential Vegan is the much-beloved Brazilian vegan café located in Shoreditch, London. It is one of the best places in Europe for vegan eating and now you can attend an exclusive pop up dining event featuring an eight-dish tasting menu that is exceptional.
Check this out:
Pinto beans soup (caldinho de feijao) with farofa and cheese crackers – Rich and hearty, this slow-cooked beans soup is served with a seasoned and toasted cassava flour and cheese cracker
Tapioca dice with green apple chilli sauce – Golden, crispy-skinned cubes packed with melted lupin cheese combined with the sweet and sour flavours of their sweet chilli sauce
Warm cassava salad – Boiled and seasoned cassava sticks (mandioca) served with a fresh vinaigrette
Grilled okra – Crunchy, creamy okra served with their coriander chilli sauce
Acarajé – A fritter light in texture and bold in flavour: Stuffed with caruru (okra paste), vatapa (peanut, cashew and coconut milk paste) and fresh tomatoes
Ginger mango sorbet – Highly refreshing and creamy sorbet
Brazilian doughnut with guava paste – They call it bolinho de chuva, a deep-fried dumpling, sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar served with a creamy guava paste
Green apple tea with Sequilho – End this journey with a highly digestive and fragrant tea served with their famous coconut biscuits
The café doesn’t sell alcohol but you are more than welcome to take your own booze, make yourself at home and enjoy their supper club with your favourite tipple.
The tasting menu night is taking place on August 28, 2019 between 7:00pm and 8:30pm. Cost per ticket is £35.
I have heard a lot of questions and pleas for information over the years as FGV, but nothing gets asked about quite like vegan afternoon tea options in London.
So I thought it best if I share this information with you as I know there are a lot of plant-based eaters out there who LOVE a quality afternoon tea experience.
Nora and Nama is a vegan bakery and deli situated in Camden Lock Market. I’ve written about them a few times and the business has created a loving and loyal fan base thanks to their exquisite products.
It is also home to an incredible-looking vegan afternoon tea.
Check out this menu.
The afternoon tea is available at a cost of £26 per person for a minimum booking of two people.
I recently flew out of Australia with QANTAS and the vegan food was on the correct side of acceptable.
First up was the main meal an even though the photo is atrocious, the meal itself was tasty and satisfying.
I enjoyed and pasta, vegetable, and tofu dish with a mini vegan bread. This main was also accompanied by a moist slice of chocolate cake and a pack of dried fruit pieces.
Once again, economy lighting and space restrictions mean I feel the need to apologise again for the terrible photography.
Next up was some sort of breakfast muffin sandwich that was so outrageously hot from overheating, I actually couldn’t hold it for fifteen minutes.
Once it cooled, I chomped my way through it and loved it. It was like a breakfast muffin filled with a bean patty.
Finally, I was served a breakfast dish consisting of vegetable and bean rissoles, mushrooms, and tomatoes.
This was accompanied by a bread roll and a packet of quinoa and apple crispy bites.
Of course this food wasn’t going to win awards, but it certainly kept me feeling well-fed and nourished during the 13-hour flight between Brisbane and Los Angeles.
As far as inflight meals go, QANTAS is up there with the best.
Some non-vegan stores are better for plant-based consumers than others, but I think I might have just been to THE BEST non-vegan store catering to vegans on the planet.
Seriously. This blog post is dozens and dozens of photos of vegan products all taken in one store.
Sam Coco in Brisbane, Australia is a 24-hour (that’s right, they never close!) fruit store and butchers that for some reason also has an amazing amount of vegan groceries.
I don’t know what else to say except please take your time to savour all my photos below.
These photos don’t represent even close to everything vegan available in the store.
London, you had better not sleep on this incredible food event.
It is sensational.
Anri of Fussy Chilesaurus was always a crowd favourite at my market and her delicious vegan take on Japanese cuisine is legendary. She once had a queue of dozens and dozens of people on a bizarrely warm day at Guildhall market because word had spread among the diners about how fantastic her food was that day.
So you need to take advantage of the fact that Anri will be cooking and serving her exquisite menu as a pop up at Tottenham Social Pop Ups at Craving Coffee this week.
Curated and hosted by vegan blogger, writer, and event planner Fat Gay Vegan (that’s me!), this Mekong cruise has been designed to be a relaxed, inclusive, and safe adventure for LGBT travellers as well as their friends and families.
As a gay person, I have often longed for an LGBT-friendly vegan vacation opportunity. I know what it is like to put a lot of effort into planning and paying for a holiday and I want to know that every part of my trip celebrates who I am. My partner and I want to feel safe and relaxed whether we are in our cabin, sharing cocktails in the bar, or dining together at night. Vegan Culinary Cruises helped me turn this dream into a reality for me and my LGBT community!
Even though our gorgeous Mekong adventure is focused on celebrating LGBT community members, the cruise is also welcoming to non-LGBT friends and family members. We have worked hard to create an experience in which everyone can celebrate our diverse communities.
Our luxury Mekong river cruise combines places rarely visited with opulent world heritage sites exploring the wonders and culture of Vietnam and Cambodia
With only 25 cabins, this luxury cruise is an exclusive adventure for only 50 guests. It is all inclusive and means the cruise, delicious vegan cuisine, open bar, tours and more!
Vegan Culinary Cruises Vietnam & Cambodia Mekong river cruise is one of the world’s most exotic and unforgettable journeys. Marvel at ancient temples, mist-covered mountains and colourful floating markets along the Mekong River as you travel by luxury river cruise through two of Southeast Asia’s most beautiful countries. Along the way, visit temples and monasteries, royal palaces and pagodas, rural villages and experience first-hand everyday life in this unique part of the world. This deluxe river cruise ship features delicious regionally-inspired vegan cuisine, spa treatments and a pool on the sun deck so our guests can return to luxury after each on shore adventure.
Our all-inclusive program includes delicious vegan cuisine, thought-provoking lectures, entertainment, and fabulous on-board programming, along with local tours at each locale we visit.
Picture yourself watching the river flow from the window of your cabin or one of the decks as it takes you to new places and reveals storybook landscapes as you relax in total comfort. The sublime ambiance and personal service aboard your Vegan Culinary Cruise ship creates an oasis of relaxation that is simply unexcelled. Each one of the bright, airy cabins has unrestricted views of the scenery through panoramic, glass windows with private balcony that spans the cabin’s width. Experience travel like you never have before with the sheer ease of river transport.
Details
Pricing from: US$5790 per person based on double occupancy Dates: July 4, 2020 until July 11, 2020
We are offering a US$500 per person discount if you book your cabin before September 1, 2019.
There is also an optional Siem Reap Cambodia pre-tour available at additional cost.
Pre-tour
Day 1 – Thursday July 2 – Siem Reap – Arrive transfer to hotel Day 2 – Friday July 3 – Siem Reap area tour Day 3 – Saturday July 4 – Siem Reap morning area tour, afternoon transfer to ship at Kampong Cham
Cruise
Day 1 – Saturday July 4 –Afternoon transfer Siem Reap to ship at Kampong Cham Day 2 – Sunday July 5 – Kampong Cham, Angkor Ban, Wat Hanchey – Cambodia Day 3 – Monday July 6 – Kampong Tralach, Kampong Chhnang – Cambodia Day 4 – Tuesday July 7 – Phnom Penh – Cambodia Day 5 – Wednesday July 8 – Tan-Chau, My An Hung – Border crossing Vietnam Day 6 – Thursday July 9 – Sa Dec, Binh Thanh Island – Vietnam Day 7 – Friday July 10 –- Cai Be, My Tho – Vietnam Day 8 – Saturday July 12: Ho Chi Min City / Saigon – Vietnam – Disembark
Get all the finer details of this incredible vegan, LGBT-friendly cruise along the Mekong online here.
You can also find out about future cruises like our south of France general vegan cruise next year. Follow Vegan Culinary Cruises on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.
Put the animal cruelty aside for a second and some people just don’t like the salty crunchy things at all, while some people adore the traditional pub snack.
For people who were fans of pork scratchings after a few pints in the pub, there is great news.
Two passionate pork scratching fanatics have taken it upon themselves to create a vegan version of this divisive snack.
And they are running a Kickstarter campaign to get the compassionate version into pubs around the UK.
The founders of Vegan Pig said:
We never dreamed we would end up with a product that not only tasted so great, but was so similar to a pork scratching in both texture and in taste.
We’ve overcome challenge after challenge, but now, our next step is getting Vegan Pig into production.
We’re asking the Kickstarter community for £5200. This money will help us scale up our production and get our pig snacks out into the world – as well as helping us meet the minimum orders required to use 100% recyclable packaging.
Once we begin to produce them, we’ll be able to go from pub to pub to sell this delicious snack – so you can all give them a go yourself, with a nice cold pint.
If you check out their Kickstarter page right now, you’ll see they have already broken through that fundraising target!
It seems vegan pork scratchings are an in demand product.
You still have a week remaining to get behind this project and of course some of the reward levels include your own packets of Vegan Pig pork scratchings when the first retail packs are produced.
TWO COPPER BRANCH LOCATIONS IN TORONTO ARE NOW OPEN PAST MIDNIGHT
The chain’s locations on Bathurst St and at the Sheppard Centre now offer vegans and omnivores alike the chance to eat plant based at nearly any hour.
The Montreal-based chain, which is now the largest plant-based restaurant chain in the world, has announced that two of their key Toronto locations are now open past midnight seven days a week. Their Bathurst and Sheppard Centre stores will now feature their full menus well past the time any other healthy or plant-based restaurants have closed for the evening. This will allow anyone out for the evening in the city or night shift workers to enjoy the benefits of delicious, plant-based meals at an hour when previously the best they could do would be burgers and fries.
Copper Branch’s location at 410 Bathurst St is open until 2am seven days a week and their restaurant at the Sheppard Centre is open Thursday through Saturday until 2am and Sunday through Wednesday until 1am.
“Customer response to these two locations staying open late has been incredible,” says Copper Branch Global Director of Marketing, Andrew Infantino. “Our customers love that they can replicate their late night favorites such as burgers, Buffalo wings, nachos, and even poutine in an all-natural, healthy version when they’re out late in the city.”
With over 60 restaurants worldwide, what sets Copper Branch apart from other quick service plant-based restaurants is its commitment to both familiar fare as well as unique global recipes that diners can only get at Copper Branch. The chain features an all-day breakfast and an all-encompassing menu that includes power bowls, burgers and sandwiches, soups and chili, and power smoothies. The entire menu is whole food plant-based, with many non-GMO, organic, specialty and naturally gluten-free foods.
Though the entire Copper Branch menu is vegan, the company has found that the vast majority of its customers are not strict vegans, but rather omnivores who want to replicate the delicious foods they currently enjoy but in a healthier, more ethical and sustainable way. “This is food I’m proud to have my children eat” adds CEO Rio Infantino. “Now our customers can do so at any hour, which is exciting for the industry and for the company.”
Copper Branch is considering adopting the late night strategy at more locations.
ABOUT COPPER BRANCH
Started in 2014 and headquartered in Montreal, Copper Branch is a privately held company and holds the distinction of being the largest and fastest growing plant-based fast casual chain in the world. The company’s mission is to Empower, Energize and make people feel their Best; providing a convenient, plant-based dining experience without sacrificing taste, quality or satisfaction. The reasonably priced, 100% plant-based menu items are never fried and consist of mainly organic and non-GMO ingredients. For locations, menus and other details, visit the website.
The Nuneaton Vegan Fair is taking place in the Warwickshire town this Saturday August 3, 2019.
The following description of the event is from the organisers and it sounds fab.
The Nuneaton Vegan Fair will feature 30 stalls selling a wide range of vegan products including delicious cake, chocolate, cheese, cosmetics, clothing, recipe books, and a selection of hot food.
FREE entry. All welcome.
STALLHOLDERS
Caterers
Got No Beef Burger Bar
Sheila’s Kitchen
Vegan Joe’s
U-Juice
Cakes & Confectionery
SOOKS Ltd
Sweetest Things
Trishul Raw Chocolate
Totally Vegan
Lakeside Ethical Treats
Vegan Cheese
Soul Cheeze
The Naturally Vegan Food Company
Other Food Stalls
Venitin FOODS
Butterbelle
Vork pie
Natures Finest Juices
Tropical Paradise Preserves
