Popular vegetarian restaurant Mildreds only just recently open their second location in Camden, but have already announced plans for a third restaurant.
And it opens next month!
London can you wait?
Pie Baby is back!
If you like vegan pies and beer, you had better move super fast. The last time Pie Baby put on a spread, the tickets scuttled out the door in no time at all.
Check out the details for this tasty London event.
Vegan restaurant NOT closed!
Remember when I told you Dou Dou in Camden was closed? You can see that original and hysterical post here.
The truth of the matter appears to be that the restaurant was closed temporarily for renovations.
Check out this update from Kellie:
As we came back home via London after the Vegan River Cruise, we happened by Camden and…whether to rub salt into my wounds or what…we decided to peak at the old Dou Dou…only to be very excited by the A-board out the front and the neon Open sign flashing!!
So apparently Dou Dou was closed for 3 weeks over Christmas for some renovations. Everything looked fairly similar / if not the same except perhaps for new tiles on the floor. There were some new faces and less staff than usual. It does make me wonder why they wouldn’t let people know (even if just by written sign on the door) that they were only temporarily closed?!
But…if renovations were in the works it perhaps suggests a more rosy picture than them struggling 🙂
Thanks for the good news, Kellie!
Vegan restaurants: 1. London soaring property prices: 0.
Get back into Dou Dou for greasy vegan food.
New vegan food in Hackney
I know what you are going to say.
East London doesn’t need more vegan food and people should spread the plant-based love to other parts of the city and the UK.
Well, you might be retracting your complaint when you read about how awesome the brand new Café SoVegan is and you’ll probably be thankful it exists, even if it is in Hackney.
On hearing about the impending launch of the cafe, I reached out to co-owner Davina Pascal-O’Mahoney to get the lowdown on this new food business and this is what she shared with me:
Indian to your door
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.
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:
Inspiral ending?
My buddy Quarrygirl alerted me to an article yesterday about InSpiral Lounge closing in Camden.
Well, it’s a little bit more complicated than that.
The article on the Kentishtowner website featured the following information:
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.
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.