I am sitting in Mexico City as I type this blog post and I’m thinking maybe I left London a few days too early.
Check out this glorious vegan Indian food you can get delivered to your London home or office starting this week.
I’ll pay you to cook for me
Food and drink in Newcastle
I don’t know if this is new info or if I’m out of the loop, but you are going to love this very vegan-friendly establishment in Newcastle.
The Bohemian is a super cool looking bar, restaurant and record shop (!) situated smack bang in the heart of the northern city.
So, just how vegan-friendly is it?
Supper club January
My buddy Jhenn is a food mastermind. She turned Veg Bar into a hotspot of culinary delights with her kitchen wizardry and has been serving up delicious food via her own supper clubs for years.
Now that Jhenn has stepped away from her role at Veg Bar, she has decided to dedicate her time and energies into staging a whole bunch of vegan supper clubs in her own home. London, you lucky things!
Check out the amazing list of events Jhenn is running in January alone:
Now serving meat
This ain’t cool.
One of the finest purveyors of savoury vegan food in London is now selling meat.
I have long been a champion of Koshari Street. This food outlet near Covent Garden has been selling their delicious vegetarian food for several years.
Their main offering was a sumptuous pot of lentils, pasta, fried onions, chickpeas and tomato sauce that is a staple dish in Egypt. I absolutely adore this food.
Unfortunately, Koshari Street felt the need to switch from a 100% vegetarian menu (all the savoury food was 100% vegan) and have started offering meat as an option.
I reached out to the restaurant to ask ‘what the hell?!’ and they responded by saying they aim to please everyone.
I’ve got two things to say about that:
- The animals you are serving up surely are not happy with this development, so you have instantly failed in your mission to please everyone.
- Your Twitter bio still features the phrase ‘Our food is 100% #vegetarian’. Reports of you serving meat go back a month or more, so I would think you need to urgently update your social media to avoid upset and claims of false advertising.
Koshari Street assure me that vegans can still eat the savoury tub of food as long as they stay away from the meat.
The major problem for the restaurant is a lot of us don’t want to anymore.
Eating in Glasgow
I am often found singing the praises of Glasgow. Well, not really singing because I can’t but I am known for seriously loving the city and its vegan food opportunities.
My recent-ish visit to the Scottish city had me all in a flap, trying to get my chubby paws on as much of the glorious plant-based offerings as possible.
Like I did with the following food/drink from The Flying Duck.
V Revolution still fabulous
Manchester. So much for which to answer. Or something like that.
A recent trip to the northern city was somewhat planned around a trip to V Revolution. Don’t know it? V Revolution is one of the finest examples of vegans doing fantastic stuff with food and making it an enjoyable experience, too.
The cafe is tucked away in the Northern Quarter and manages to churn out delicious burgers, irresistible hot dogs, ice cream floats, and the best nachos south of Edinburgh (yep, nothing beats Auld Hoose).
Scroll down to see what I’m talking about. These three photos are from my latest visit and looking at them you can imagine why the V Rev staff had to push me out the door at closing time. I didn’t want to leave!
Best 9 of 2015 Instagram
There is a trend sweeping social media today that involves using software to generate a best 9 list on Instagram.
Without too much pomp and ceremony, here is a collage of the most ‘liked’ photos from my Instagram account during 2015.
Enjoy!
Vegan comfort on another level
This blog post contains some of the most explicit comfort food photos you will have seen in a long time.
The photos are heavy going and some people will find them quite confronting. Sit down, take a few deep breaths and then scroll down for the visual g(l)ory.
Manchester has it
Manchester has a lot of fab vegan things going for it and right up there on that list is the plant-based menu at Ning.
Ning is a Malaysian cuisine eatery situated next door to the current location of V Revolution. Even though I’ve written about Ning in the past, my recent trip there was so outstanding I wanted to share the food photos with you all.
Check this out.
Best crumble
How often do you find a vegan crumble with custard in a London pub?
If you answered, “Never FGV, never!” I would believe you and act extremely sympathetic. The lack of vegan pub desserts in the capital is close to a disgrace. An emergency, if you will.
Thankfully, the Old Ship W6 is here to elevate our compassionate pudding experience.
Not only is this pub serving up one of the items on my ‘top 13 vegan things to consume in London list’, they are also offering this seasonal dessert that would surely satisfy most anyone.
What do you think? Do you like the sound of that crumble?
Check out the current vegan menu on offer at the Old Ship W6 here.