If you know LD’s, you know they don’t mess about. These are the culinary heavyweights who’ve been ruling the vegan roost at The Black Heart in Camden for quite a while.
But here’s the thing. Not everyone realises they also run the kitchen at Saint Monday, a laid-back brewery and pub just a short stroll from London Fields.
And now they’ve launched a brand new menu there. It’s smoky, saucy, indulgent, and unapologetically delicious in all the right ways. It’s proper BBQ comfort food with every bite screaming flavour.
Of course artificial intelligence as a tool has been in our lives for a long time, but in 2025 it appears to be running wild.
In episode 56 of Tell Me Where I’m Going (Wrong), Josh and I discuss AI and how it is making it difficult to navigate the online world with any sense of certainty.
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If you appreciate my blog posts and the work I do to support vegan business and challenge injustice, please consider making a one time small donation of a couple of quid online here. You might also be in the position to sponsor my work on an regular basis via Patreon.
You can order my book ‘Fat Gay Vegan: Eat, Drink and Live Like You Give a Sh!t’ online now. It has been out a while now but is still a good read. You can also listen to the Audiobook read by me!
As it’s 2025, I feel as though I don’t need to explain why some wine is not vegan. Right? You all know about the fining process and how some wines are filtered using animal by-products.
Because we are all informed consumers on this front, let me move on to telling you about a wine label that is selling all vegan drinks while also raising money for ocean conservation.
Let’s have a chat about the vegan situation at the IKEA restaurant on Oxford Street, London.
First off, hats off to IKEA for offering proper vegan options. Those vegan meatballs are impressive. It’s brilliant seeing such a massive retailer embracing plant-based choices, from the plant balls to the hot dogs and even the soft serve ice cream. It really shows the tides are turning and I’m impressed.
But here’s the annoying part. The whole ordering process is an absolute muddle.
Windsor might be best known for a certain royal residence, but you need to know about a place in town that is far more exciting to me than any palace.
Other Space Arts is a grassroots arts venue, plant-based kitchen, and bar that opened towards the end of last year, and it is doing a stellar job of putting inclusive community values front and centre.
I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed by the wonderful Jordi.
Jordi is someone I’ve known for many years. He is a vegan activist, a journalist, and an attendee of my FGV events.
Jordi has a new podcast/vlog series in which he interviews vegans while walking the streets before stopping for a cup of tea at a vegan or vegan-friendly cafe.
You’ve seen me rave about Okja in Spitalfields, just a few minutes walk from Liverpool Street and Spitalfields Market.
If you are new here, Okja is a vegan bakery and coffee shop chain with locations in South Africa. A little while back they opened their first-ever UK location on Toynbee Street and people can’t get enough.
The pastries are all hand-crafted inside the bakery and every single item is exquisite… and vegan!
I popped in yesterday to catch up on the latest. Below you can see the photos I grabbed showing some new items and some recently updated items. Sensational.
I don’t make the rules, I just live by them. Actually, I do make the rules. Not sure why I wrote that.
In this weeks episode, Josh and I chat about our collective love for The Killers, childhood memories of The Goonies, the fabulousness of Cyndi Lauper, and the starvation and genocide of Gaza.
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If you appreciate my blog posts and the work I do to support vegan business and challenge injustice, please consider making a one time small donation of a couple of quid online here. You might also be in the position to sponsor my work on an regular basis via Patreon.
You can order my book ‘Fat Gay Vegan: Eat, Drink and Live Like You Give a Sh!t’ online now. It has been out a while now but is still a good read. You can also listen to the Audiobook read by me!
It’s not every day that a vegan fast food spot makes me do a double take over a salad, but here we are.
If you’ve been following along, you’ll remember I wrote a few months back about The Hogless Roast setting up at Crate in Walthamstow. Well, consider this your friendly reminder that they are still there and still turning out some of the most satisfying plant-based food in the area.
