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New vegan food in Hackney

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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.

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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:

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¡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

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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.

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Indian to your door

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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.

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Food and drink in Newcastle

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I don’t know if this is new info or if I’m out of the loop, but you are going to love this very vegan-friendly establishment in Newcastle.

The Bohemian is a super cool looking bar, restaurant and record shop (!) situated smack bang in the heart of the northern city.

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So, just how vegan-friendly is it?

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Supper club January

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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:

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Drink FGV

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This is my favourite piece of news I have shared in a long time.

I’m thrilled to let you know I am making my very own beer!

The brew is being made and sold in conjunction with Dominion Brewery Company, which is also responsible for the incredibly popular Pitfield range of vegan beers.

Andy, head brewer and owner of Dominion, has helped me bring my ideas to life and we recently held a tasting workshop during which we fine tuned the flavours.

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The FGV beer will be exclusively launched at London Vegan Beer Fest in July and will be available to attendees of Manchester Vegan Beer Fest and Glasgow Vegan Beer Fest later in the year.

You can follow Vegan Beer Fest UK on Facebook and Twitter to be the first to know about tickets and dates for these three huge events in 2016.

Following on from the beer fests, the FGV beer will be available to buy online and in independent beer shops, vegan retailers and selected bars.

Inspiral ending?

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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:

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Now serving meat

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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.

Egyptian vegan 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:

  1. The animals you are serving up surely are not happy with this development, so you have instantly failed in your mission to please everyone.
  2. 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.

Vegan wedding

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I recently answered a letter, in my role as resident agony uncle for Vegan Life Magazine, about how to deal with non-vegan guests at a vegan wedding.

My suggestion to the concerned reader was to throw the sort of wedding they wanted to throw. If people love and care for you, they will respect your wishes and enjoy the event.

That is exactly what happened during the wedding of Els and Matt. Josh and I were thrilled to be a part of the special event and Els was more than happy for me to share how wonderful the celebration was with all of you.

Check it out. This is what a vegan wedding looks like.

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