London vegan news, reviews & events
Important news from the wonderful Made in Hackney.
They need our help to raise funds for the valuable plant-based educational work they do for their local community. They work hard to give low income, vulnerable and hard to reach people knowledge and skills related to affordable, nutritious vegan cooking.
Check out these facts about their gala fundraiser event and then book tickets!
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Don’t get knocked over in the stampede. For this week only, you can devour a freshly prepared five vegan cheese pizza in London.
Wanna know where?
Get ready to run out the door.
I present to you the very best vegan sandwich currently being served in London.
Check it out.
London. It just got amazing for vegan pizza lovers.
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Firezza is a London-wide chain of pizza shops specialising in handmade, chewy bases with fresh toppings and, from this week, vegan cheese as an optional topping.
PeTA reached out to me earlier in the week to let me know the owners of Firezza had made the decision to include VioLife as an optional extra across all 17 locations. This is surely the biggest chain of pizza restaurants in the UK to be offering a vegan cheese pizza.
Very fortunately for me, one of the 17 Firezza locations is situated just a few minutes walk from my house. This was my experience today.
You all know one of my favourite things to eat in London is the seitan burger from Essential Vegan, right?
Vanessa and her helpers have been serving this gorgeous handheld delight at Pump food market in Shoreditch for the past few months.
If you haven’t already treated yourself, you need to be really fast before they disappear for a while.
Sunday September 13th, 2015 is the final day you will find Essential Vegan in Shoreditch. Following that date, Vanessa will be packing up the kitchen and looking for a permanent location.
Don’t miss out! Get to Shoreditch this weekend.
Don’t forget to order some crunchy polenta fries with your final burger!
Extra note: this photo originally appeared on my Instagram account.
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I have recently been on and on about the vegan Italian food business housed in a double decker bus. If you have been anywhere near this blog or my Instagram account these past few months, you would have seen me absolutely singing the praises of Just Fab.
The cuisine created by Chef Myra is some of the best vegan food in the country and everybody I ask to join me for a meal on the bus walks away awestruck by the delicious experience.
Just Fab has been trading every Saturday on Shoreditch High Street (you can read my original glowing review here) but the rest of the week left fans of this superstar Italian kitchen high and dry.
But things have changed! The Just Fab bus has a permanent location where it will be serving delicious vegan food all the time. Yep, you can get the best vegan Italian food in London six days a week.
London doesn’t have an amazing choice for Sunday roast dinners, so it is wonderful to see this new addition to the plant-based landscape.
This glorious plate of vegan comfort food is now being served up by Kabaret @ Karamel every Sunday (they just celebrated one year of being a vegan bar/restaurant!).
The mighty meal contains smoked tofu, chestnut & almond Wellington, roast potatoes, carrot & turnip mash, Bavarian red cabbage, peas and red wine gravy.
Good stuff!
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Get ready for this HUGE collection of photos.
I just arrived home from a few hours at the Specialty & Fine Food Fair 2015. This annual trade event is housed in the mammoth National Hall at London Olympia and is always a great place to spot to find new vegan products, as well as reconnect with some old favourites.
Check out everything that caught my eye.
I have often heard about The Waiting Room in the south London enclave of Deptford, but really wasn’t sure where Deptford was situated. It sounded like one of those places you would never visit due to it being in the middle of nowhere.
I don’t know why I thought that, I just did.
This week led to somewhat of a revelation as I discovered there is a train departing every 10 minutes from London Bridge station that takes an incredibly short time to deliver its passengers to Deptford, just one station away.
The Waiting Room is a vegetarian coffee shop offering vegan alternatives for almost their entire menu. It would be marvellous to see this rad store front make the switch to completely vegan, but until they do vegans still have a lot of food and drink to keep them busy.
Check out what I got my paws on during my visit this week.
Do you like vegan Mexican food? Do you like vegan beer?
‘Yes’ to both questions? You will absolutely love this event.
Street food champions Club Mexicana have teamed up with east London brewery Five Points to create a food and beer pairing event that has me drooling.
Check out the five course menu below, detailing each delectable morsel and beer pairing to match: