London vegan news, reviews & events
Have you made an effort to visit the only 100% vegan pizza restaurant in the UK?
Photos are starting to flow out of Purezza in Brighton and they are making me feel kinda sad that I’m on the other side of the world. I wonder if they deliver to Mexico?
The restaurant offers a huge range of about 20 pizzas and the menu includes such delicacies as four cheese pizza and chocolate calzone.
Keep scrollin’, scrollin’, scrollin’ to see some of the good stuff.
Cardiff. It’s your turn.
When news reached me of a 100% vegan grocery shop in Cardiff, I was ecstatic. The march of plant-based consumerism is fabulous news for our animal friends and compassionate people in Wales can now shop until they drop.
I reached out to Simply V co-founder Spencer to find out a little bit of inside information on his store:
Mexico City is intensely invested in vegan food. It is everywhere.
Street food vendors? Pizza shops? Ice cream parlours? Yes, yes and hell to the yes!
Mexico City has all of this and more. I would even boldly suggest the mega-city is up there with the untouchable plant-based locations of Portland, Austin, Berlin and Los Angeles.
Vegan food is such a serious concern here in Mexico City, you can even shop in a 100% vegan and gluten free bakery.
Check out these photos from my visit to Pan Gabriel in the leafy Condesa neighbourhood.
You all know about Essential Vegan, right?
Essential Vegan is the brainchild of my friend Vanessa Almeida and is home to some of the most delicious recipes on the Internet, which are also some of the simplest to recreate.
Because Vanessa is a perfectionist and believes things can always be better, she has gone and updated her already wonderful website to make it even easier to navigate.
Click here to visit the brand new Essential Vegan website for a stunning range of vegan recipes including the only recipe I have used more than ten times in recent years, Vanessa’s homemade seitan.
Vanessa also blogs about vegan products she has tried and you can find info on where to buy her delicious cakes in person.
Yay for Essential Vegan!
Burger by Essential Vegan
This is the first time in all of my years as a professional overeater that I have seen the following.
What is the point in packaging two clearly-labelled-as-vegan products in the same box as a non-vegan product? Check this out.
As a vegan with a predilection for grocery shopping, I was totally in my element during a visit to Costco in Mexico City today.
Scroll down for photographic proof that I was almost overwhelmed by vegan choices in the mammoth Polanco branch of the retail behemoth.
I tried Vegan Egg by Follow Your Heart for the first time.
Check it out.
My first time using #VeganEgg by @FollowYourHeart. Have you tired this product? #veganpic.twitter.com/Kk2utMlX2f
— fat gay vegan (@FatGayVegan) January 17, 2016
What do you think?
It is launching in the UK later in 2016 and is already widely available in North America.
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.
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.
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.
