Pipoca – this vegan crepes business rounds out the line up.
Isn’t this incredible? It is wonderful knowing that thousands and thousands of commuters and tourists will pass these vegan businesses every single day of the week.
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Ten years is a long time for a blog. A really long time.
I can hardly believe that in December 2020 I will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of being Fat Gay Vegan.
It has been a wild ride of a decade and to look back in a positive way, I am hosting a week-long vegan cruise on the gorgeous Danube river.
Wanna celebrate ten years of FGV with me?!
Prices start from $1,499 USD per person.
Join me and Vegan Culinary Cruises for a week-long 100% vegan cruise on the Danube traveling from Budapest, Hungary to Passau, Germany between December 31, 2020 and January 7, 2021.
As the cruise is a celebration of the 10th anniversary of Fat Gay Vegan, it is set to be a vegan experience like no other.
The cruise will feature:
morning yoga classes
incredible vegan cuisine served across three meals a day
special guests involved in cooking demos and panel discussions
disco and karaoke nights in the lounge
100% vegan toiletries in each cabin
Wi-Fi access
24h coffee and tea station
Teatime and cake
Midnight snack in the lounge
All day water and ice-tea in the lounge
Electrically assisted bicycles
Optional extras on the cruise will include:
city and vegan food tours
drinks packages
airport transfers
Cruise schedule
Day 1 December 31 Budapest
Day 2 January 1 Budapest
Day 3 January 2 Bratislava
Day 4 January 3 Vienna
Day 5 January 4 Villages of the Wachau Valley – Durnstein & Melk
Day 6 January 5 Linz
Day 7 January 6 Passau
Day 8 January 7 Passau: Depart
We take over the complete ship meaning this is a fully vegan cruise.
Help me celebrate my 10th anniversary as Fat Gay Vegan. I have met thousands of vegans and vegan-friendly people over the past decade and it would be wonderful to share this huge milestone with familiar faces.
Click here to get all the details and if you like what you see, book a cabin!
No matter if your Valentine’s Day is going great or less than desirable, this news is guaranteed to make it better.
Superstar purveyors of plant-based comfort food Young Vegans are launching a bottomless vegan brunch at their pizza restaurant in Bethnal Green, London!
What is a bottomless brunch?
Don’t worry, you get to keep your pants on. Bottomless brunch means you get to drink and eat as much as you can/want from a selected menu for a set amount of time.
The Young Vegans bottomless brunch features unlimited pizza AND unlimited Prosecco or beer for 90 minutes for a flat rate of £30 per person!
The bottomless brunch is available only via advanced bookings on the Young Vegans Pizza Shop website or Open Table for times between midday and 5pm every Sunday, starting on Sunday February 16, 2020.
Some of the rules for the bottomless brunch:
You must eat everything (no leftovers/takeaway)
Doesn’t include any side dishes
Only one pizza at a time per two people
I love the sound of this bottomless brunch!
The drink menu also features organic wines and cocktails (such as a gorgeous Bloody Mary), Aperol Spritz, gin and tonic, and their special Hackney Mule for extra cost. The beers are from Hackney Brewery, which brews just 15 minutes from the restaurant.
I love a success story, especially when it comes to vegan businesses.
What The Pitta is one of the true runaway success stories of the London vegan food scene.
Cem and Roj crash landed on the Shoreditch landscape a few years ago with their peerless doner kebabs and have gone from strength to strength ever since. The fast food heroes now have What The Pitta locations in Shoreditch, Camden, Croydon, and Brighton.
What The Pitta is one of the finest places on the planet if you are interested in vegan comfort food. Their kebabs and chip boxes are simply legendary.
And it isn’t just us vegans that think they deserve recognition.
What The Pitta have been nominated in the Best Takeaway in London category in the 2020 British Kebab Awards.
Yes!
The vegan chain is the ONLY vegan business nominated across a huge line up of possible winners.
We need to combine out vegan super powers and make sure they win their category. Click here to vote for What The Pitta.
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Visit What The Pitta online to see their menu and location details and be sure to follow them on Instagram.
Vegan Life Live in London is a huge annual celebration of everything vegan, hosted at Alexandra Palace across March 14 and 15 in 2020.
250 exhibitors will showcase food, clothing, accessories, campaign groups, personal care products, and cosmetics making it the perfect way to connect with every aspect of the vegan lifestyle.
There will be speakers including Earthling Ed and MackaB, talking top tips for your vegan journey.
There will be three kitchens with cooking demonstrations from leading vegan chefs and bloggers including Gaz Oakley, Chef Day Radley, Tomi Makanjuola and Niki Webster, all working hard to inspire you to take new ideas home to your own kitchens.
Vegan Life Live is sponsored by Viva!, The Vegan Society and Vivo Life to name just a few.
Sounds great, right? Well, how about cheap tickets?
Click here to access the special two-for-one ticket offer being dangled in front of FGV readers.
Want to read more about the event and what you can expect to see? Click here to visit the Vegan Life Live website.
OmNom is a new vegan café and yoga space located in Islington, London.
The café founders have this to say:
Everything we do is focused on journeying together to an enlightened lifestyle through serving your Body, Mind and Soul. OmNom brings you delicious, fresh vegetarian/vegan food that acts like yoga for your belly. As well as this we offer yoga, mindfulness and meditation sessions so you can connect with the real you. As you may have guessed by now, we’re all about giving, and as a Conscious Charity every meal you have at OmNom will feed a meal to a child less fortunate across the globe.
I like the sound of a meal going to a hungry human in exchange for every meal purchased in the café.
Sandi from OmNom clarified further:
Our mechanism is pretty straight forward. With every meal/yoga class that we sell, we will pay for one child to be fed. We work with a number of charities, including Annamrita who serve 1.2 million meals to children across seven Indian states every day.
If you want to see the sort of food being served at OmNom and check out some of their classes, get over to their website now. They have some great opening specials and discounts featured online.
You can see the exact location of OmNom in the flyer above or online thanks to Google Maps.
Hey, London. Where do you go for vegan brunch each weekend?
If you answered anywhere other than Arancini Brothers in Kentish Town, I’ve got news for you that might shake things up.
Arancini Brothers is the superstar fast food chain focussed on risotto balls, with locations in Old Street, Maltby Street, Dalston, Ely’s Yard, and Kentish Town.
In exciting news, the Kentish Town location is trying something new by opening only for brunch on the weekends.
And what a brunch it is!
Check out the photos below:
First of all, that fry up tray looks sensational. Furthermore, I say a big YES PLEASE to peanut butter jam toasties.
The rest of the brunch-only menu is stuffed with filled fococcia, salads, croissants, and sausage rolls.
Get along to Arancini Brothers Ketish Town every Saturday and Sunday between 10am and 4pm.
The restaurant is located at 115A Kentish Town Road. You can see the exact location thanks to Google Maps.
It has been quite a while since I visited Mog’s in Leeds, so I thought it would be the right time to remind everyone about this 100% vegan junk food joint.
Mog’s started life as a vegetarian and vegan eatery a few years back. In 2018 it became a fully vegan restaurant and then got itself some new management in 2019.
What can you expect to eat at Mog’s in 2020?
The menu is packed solid with comfort food such as burgers, chickn dinners, coleslaw, gravy, wraps, and fries.
How often do you get along to the gorgeous vegan spot in Brixton called Café Van Gogh?
This not-for-profit social enterprise enjoys a legendary reputation with locals, while a lot of people further afield often make the trip south of the river to enjoy the delicious cuisine.
I’ve popped on here today to let you know about the brand new monthly menu released by Café Van Gogh for February.
Check it out.
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The above menu is the evening menu, so grab a few food friends and make it a night out.
Café Van Gogh is open Tuesday to Friday midday until 4:30pm and then 5:00pm until 9:00pm, Saturday 10:am until 9:00pm, and Sunday between midday and 4:00pm.
The café is dog friendly and you can get in touch with them for bookings via 07593 010 566.
Multi-award winning vegan pizzeria Purezza extends its Camden venue using recycled and eco-friendly materials.
Purezza, the UK’s first vegan pizzeria, is extending its Camden branch. The new branch will be one of the biggest vegan restaurants in the UK, and is the first part of the restaurant’s expansion plans for 2020.
Purezza’s Camden branch first opened in March 2018. The company, which also has a branch in Brighton & Hove, went on to win National Pizza of the Year following its London opening.
The new restaurant is three times bigger than its previous Camden branch. It boasts a new sheltered garden area with live plants adorning the walls, making it perfect for alfresco-style dining no matter the weather. It also has a large extended bar, where diners can enjoy a range of drinks and cocktails along with light nibbles such as Purezza’s famed vegan Cheese Dough Balls.
Purezza’s focus on sustainability in its food has extended to the build and interior of the new restaurant. Furniture is from both Purezza’s previous restaurant, and discarded items from other restaurants. The plaster on the walls is made using sustainable hemp. Upholstered furniture uses vegan leathers and inner foams made with recycled plastic bottles. Mirrors and lighting were made with recycled and reclaimed materials using sustainable methods of production. Purezza even used the flooring from their previous Camden restaurant for seating booths, and doors were sourced from an old chapel.
The restaurant has seen steadily growing demand, which it credits to the combination of growing interest in plant-based food and innovation, and its unwavering commitment to quality.
Tim Barclay, co-founder and co-owner of Purezza said “our flagship London restaurant has been struggling to keep up with demand throughout 2019. The single biggest complaint we receive is that it’s almost impossible to get a table most nights. It’s a good problem to have, but providing exceptional customer experiences is one of our core tenets at Purezza, and by tripling the size of our Camden restaurant we’ll be able to meet the demand.”
The new Purezza opens on 3rd February in Camden at 45-47 Parkway, NW1 7PN. Click here to see the exact location thanks to Google Maps.
