Josh got back home from a week long trip to the USA, so of course I was expecting some vegan treats.
He didn’t let me down.
Even with his meagre carry on baggage allowance, he managed to squeeze in the following goodies for me.
Taking the long way around
Ultimate vegan shopping
Josh has left me all alone in Mexico City for a week to jet off to the USA.
He took some time out of his busy schedule of enjoying sunshine and making eyes at alligators in Florida to send me the following photos he took in a Whole Foods Market outlet.
Check out all the amazing vegan products rammed into these fridges!
Vegan BA meal in flight
If you come around these parts of the Internet often, you will know that I enjoy showing you the vegan food I am served by airlines in my column called Food in the air.
This latest post highlights the two meals I was served during my recent British Airways flight between London and Mexico City.
As you will see from the photos below, one meal was the standard meal handed out to vegans while the other was close to non-existent.
Feeling Hungary
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By now you’ve probably all read about how much FGV enjoyed the Napfényes chain of restaurants when we were in Budapest recently. I wholeheartedly agree that it was probably the tastiest food I’ve been served in Europe. However, I wanted to try some of the other vegan food in Budapest so I dragged a reluctant FGV along to Kozmosz one morning to see if Napfényes could be improved upon…
Best vegan food in Europe
Here it is, people.
It is time once again for one of my infamous FGV sweeping statements.
The following photos detail the best vegan food in Europe. Yes, that’s correct. The BEST vegan food in Europe.
Hold on tight.
Vegan food in Munich
If you ever visit the German city of Munich, you MUST make time to buy yourself one of these incredible vegan kebabs.
Josh and I found ourselves with a few hours to spare in Munich last month before heading to Passau to board a vegan river cruise on the Danube. A quick scan of the HappyCow app informed us that right next to the Munich hauptbahnhof was a kebab shop offering vegan kebabs called Royal Kebabhaus.
Although the shop served meat, the friendly server was quick to assure us which options were vegan. In fact, they were so proud of their vegan-friendliness it was plastered all over the exterior of the kebab shop.
We both ordered the vegan durum kebab which consisted of thinly-shredded seitan rolled up in flatbread with fresh salad and house-made sauces. I think the seitan was made by Wheaty but even if it wasn’t, it was the perfect combination of crispy and chewy with an incredible taste. Not being one to show restraint, I also ordered a vegan pide topped with seitan, served with a selection of fresh salads and sauces. So, so good!
Check out the photos below.
¡Taco taco taco!
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I was super-excited to read on the LA Times website that Los Angeles is getting a brand-new taquería, opened by none other than actor Danny Trejo and it appears to be very vegan-friendly! The LA Times article quotes Danny saying;
“Here, we wanted to include everybody, so we have a great vegan menu and gluten-free menu.”
Other online articles speculated that Trejo’s Tacos was 100% vegan but it has since been established that it is just vegan-friendly as they posted a picture of a chicken taco on their Instagram feed. Either way, I can’t wait to find out more during my next trip to LA!
As a side-note, FGV and I visited our first vegan taquería here in Mexico City last night… review and pics coming soon!
You can follow Trejo’s Tacos on Twitter and Instagram, or like the Facebook page.
All vegan burger restaurant
During my recent cruise along the Danube, I was pleasantly surprised and sometimes shocked by how much vegan food is out there across Europe.
Take Linz, Austria for instance.
Linz is a city with a population floating around the 200,000 mark, so you might not expect to find much in the way of plant-based eating.
But Front Food is having none of my misconceptions.
This 100% vegan burger restaurant would not be out of place in NYC or LA, but a moderately sized city in the gorgeous Austrian countryside is the only place you’ll find it.
Check out the glorious decor and the mouthwatering cuisine.
Seaweed burger in Netherlands
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As we’re on our Dutch odyssey, let’s take a quick break from bustling Amsterdam and swing by Dordrecht, a nice little town that we visited partly (ahem, mainly) due to the presence of a new vegan café called Daantje there that we wanted to try.
And we were so glad we did! Dordrecht is a very pretty town, and Daantje was a lovely café, bright and cheerful, on a postcard-perfect old Dutch street.
So the ambience was spot-on, you’ll be glad to hear the food was excellent too. I had a “Dutch Weed Burger” (which may be named provocatively but is just a play on words, it’s named after the seaweed it contains) which had been recommended to me by almost every Dutch person I spoke to (or so it seemed). It was huge and delicious!
Jess had a brie, walnut and maple syrup wrap, which was also great. The vegan brie is apparently made on the premises, and was really creamy and full of flavour. Had we been served this in a non-vegan place, I’d have been suspicious of dairy infiltration! But the friendly owner is definitely 100% vegan.
So should you fancy visiting the Netherlands but having a break from Amsterdam, then I can recommend a day in Dordrecht, including a visit to Daantje.
Goodbye from FGV
London, it has been swell.
Almost exactly five years ago today, I started this little blog called Fat Gay Vegan and to say it has taken over my life would be an understatement of epic proportions.
The blog evolved into hosting community events such as London Vegan Potluck and London Vegan Drinks. I launched a successful vegan PR company off the back of the blog and quit my job as a primary school teacher. London Vegan Beer Fest was made possible thanks to the popularity of my blog.
The past five years have been a whirlwind of blogging, events, pop ups and meeting thousands of people from all over the city, country and world.
But the only constant in life is change. It is time for me to say a temporary goodbye to the city I have called home for the past five years.
I’m leaving London and moving to Mexico City for at least six months.
Josh and I adore Mexico City. Our hearts and minds never stray too far from el Distrito Federal and the past year has been spent making plans on how we can spend more time in our favourite location on the planet.
To cut a long story short, we are heading there in January 2016 for six months.
Fat Gay Vegan will continue as a blog and my monthly advice column will appear in Vegan Life Magazine, but the regular events I am known for will of course come to a halt. You will still get all the big UK vegan news on these pages, but it will be mixed with a little more Mexican flavour.
I will be back in the future (big plans for London Vegan Beer Fest to be announced soon!) but for now it is time to say farewell.
I would love to say goodbye in person to as many readers and event attendees as possible at my final parties before I head overseas:
- You can join me for my 3rd annual Vegan Xmas Dinner this Thursday (December 17, 2015) for a wonderful 3-course meal and lots of cheesy Christmas music. Tickets are on sale here.
- My farewell party is taking the form of the last ever Queer Vegan Disco on Saturday January 9, 2016. This will be just two days before I fly out of London. This party is set to be huge. It is the final QVD, the monthly party people have come to adore. Buy your tickets in advance to secure your spot on the dance floor.
Thank you to every single person who has read my blog and attended my events during these past five years.
If I don’t see you at the Xmas dinner or Queer Vegan Disco, I will see you in the future.
xx