London vegan news, reviews & events
Folkestone just got a whole lot less delicious.
It’s with a heavy heart that I write about the closure of Dr Legumes, the beloved plant-based business that has served up thought-provoking food, community care, and a whole lot of heart for the past decade.
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Photo from Dr Legumes Facebook
Tucked away in the small Welsh town of Cwmavon, not far from Port Talbot in the preserved county of West Glamorgan, is a local pub called The Brit.
This pub is doing a lot when it comes to vegan food. This is not your usual one sad option on a menu of meat-heavy dishes. This is a flavour-packed, well-thought-out vegan experience and I want to shout about it.
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I’ve enjoyed the opportunities I’ve had to work with many compassionate and creative vegan businesses over the past 15 years. Being able to merge my love for vegan food, community, and activism into meaningful collaborations has felt like a true privilege.
Why is this important to me?
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You know I love a good vegan market. I love them so much, I used to run a couple!
So imagine how loudly I squealed when I found out that Swansea is getting its very own vegan night market. That’s right. Swansea. At night. Vegan!
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I have never believed that being vegan should stop at just avoiding animal products.
Don’t get me wrong. I love animals and won’t eat or wear them for the rest of my life. But if we’re going to build a better world for animals, we need to take a serious look at the systems that hurt people too.
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Guess what I stumbled across on a recent day trip to Brighton?
Only the second location of one of the most delicious vegan sweet shops in the country. That’s right. The Fudge Patch has opened up shop on the south coast.
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I had the immense pleasure of visiting Purezza in Brighton yesterday as an invited guest and while it’s no surprise they’re serving up phenomenal vegan food, I was particularly overjoyed by one special item on their menu.
Reader, they’ve gone and done something wonderful. They’ve put tempeh on a pizza.
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I was born and raised in Australia and, even though I’ve spent a good chunk of my adult life living in the UK, the idea of going back to my original country has been drifting into my thoughts more frequently.
Maybe it’s the passing of time. Maybe it’s the feeling of getting older and realising that I want to be closer to people I love. Maybe it’s just time.
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We are definitely seeing more and more vegan businesses popping up, even if I do write the occasional moaning post abut all the places we have lost.
The trend is definitely more plant-based, more often, and in more places.
And while vegan restaurants are appearing all over the UK, there is one (roughly) square mile of London that appears to be the actual vegan capital of the country.
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There are moments when I sit down to write this blog and genuinely wonder how I’ve managed to keep it going for fifteen years.
Fifteen years. That’s longer than most houseplants survive.
But why do I keep doing it?
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