London vegan news, reviews & events
Do you remember when I wrote about More Than Meat burgers? Sure you do! (If you really don’t, click here)
More Than Meat has been serving up their brand of vegan meat alternatives for several months in Tunbridge Wells but the food vendor has moved on and is now trading once a week in a market situated in Richmond, West London.
I paid Barry and his food stand a visit yesterday, so scroll down and check out some of the tastiness I encountered.
I write about some left of centre stuff, but this is a new one even for me. London now has a regular vegan health spa aimed at gay and bisexual men. Yes, that’s right. A vegan/gay spa.
The organiser of S-WET alerted me to the existence of the spa and asked if I could share the information.
S-WET is located in the north London suburb of Wood Green and hosts events on Thursday and Friday nights each week. It contains a sauna, a steam room, a hot tub and relaxation lounges.
What is this about the vegan part?
S-WET bills itself as a vegan-friendly spa. The venue sells and serves vegan food and drink, as well as hosts vegan-specific events. Gay Naked Vegans is one such event that takes place on Friday 18th September, 2015 and is labelled as “an all-you-can-eat s-wet fest”. The organiser describes this clothing optional get together as a place “to indulge in a piquant and colourful medley of flavours”.
If any of this has raised your interest (ahem), you can check out S-WET online, follow the spa on Twitter or like it on Facebook.
Extra note: As I will not be eating and drinking naked in front of other people, I would love if a reader would go along and file a report for my blog. Go on. You know you want to!
Slowly. Inch by painstaking inch. London is finally getting vegan food options that are worthy of the international stage. We have been behind cities such as Berlin, Los Angeles, New York and Warsaw for so long but the tide is turning.
As this vegan wave builds, Phil T is riding high on a longboard with two of the best plant based dishes in the city. You just have to try these incredible plates.
I wrote about Phil T a while back when he took over the kitchen of a rock music venue on Holloway Road but this celebrated chef has moved on to another rock and roll pub, this time in Camden.
You can now find Phil T’s Kitchen at Our Black Heart, a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it rock and roll venue/specialist beer bar tucked away in a back alley pretending to be a street in the central London neighbourhood of Camden.
So what is Phil T serving that has got me all in a squirm?
This is a massive blog post. Actually, scratch that. It is a MASSIVE blog post.
Get your scrolling finger ready and dive head first into this incredibly interesting interview I recently conducted with the fabulous Marc Massive of the band Massive Ego.
We talk music, Boy George, veganism, fashion, love and more.
This is one of my favourite posts in a long time so I’m sure you’ll love the read, too.
Do you all remember when we helped a young person named Alex with a school marketing project involving a collection of his vegan recipes? Sure you do!
Alex went on to have the most successful project in his school and was shortlisted as a finalist in a business competition run in Sheffield.
Flash forward to last night and I met up with Alex and his mum for dinner in London!
The votes have been counted, the floors have been mopped and I am thrilled to announce the winners of Best Beer in Show and Best Overall Brewery as voted by attendees of London Vegan Beer Fest 2015.
Hold on to your pints.
Drum roll for best beer in show as voted by attendees of London Vegan Beer Fest 2015.
Maybe this is what it feels like to send a child off to college.
Almost four years have passed since I launched London Vegan Drinks back in 2011. In that time, I have welcomed thousands of vegans and not-yet-vegans to meet, eat, drink and mingle at one of the biggest monthly social events on the planet.
The event has truly become a legendary staple of the London social scene and has been attended by people from all over the world. It has been an honour to have nurtured London Vegan Drinks every step of the way. I worked long and hard to make it a roaring success and in the process created a very special and much-loved event for London vegans. My aim was to create an inclusive, safer space for people of all walks of life with compassion as the binding trait and I’m certain countless people now have many happy memories thanks to the event.
But everything changes.
My buddy Jhenn took over the kitchen at Veg Bar in Brixton a few weeks back and she is now getting into the swing of things as she launches her new menu tonight.
Get along to 45 Tulse Hill from 5pm today (Saturday July 25, 2015) for live music and a new vegan menu that looks delicious.
Check out the photos below.
Here is a bumper guest post by Sonja Ter Horst, one half of Australian vegan band Love Like Hate.
Love Like Hate launch their UK wide tour today as part of my vegan roadshow, calling in Nottingham, Leeds, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, Oxford, Bristol and London. Check out more info and grab some tickets here.
Now, on to Sonja’s guest review of London Vegan Beer Fest 2015.