London vegan news, reviews & events
Get ready for this HUGE collection of photos.
I just arrived home from a few hours at the Specialty & Fine Food Fair 2015. This annual trade event is housed in the mammoth National Hall at London Olympia and is always a great place to spot to find new vegan products, as well as reconnect with some old favourites.
Check out everything that caught my eye.
Today is International Vegan Junk Food Day!
The 2nd annual global celebration finds people all over the planet rejoicing with compassionate comfort food.
Why don’t you join the party?
Click here to read all about the day and find out about some of the special offers and events taking place for International Vegan Junk Food Day. Get a free donut in NYC, a free drink in the Netherlands or attend a gorgeous junk food meal in London.
Use #ivjfd15 to share all of your decadent food photos on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
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Happy eating!
The votes have been counted, the floors have been mopped and I am thrilled to announce the winners of Best Beer in Show and Best Overall Brewery as voted by attendees of London Vegan Beer Fest 2015.
Hold on to your pints.
Drum roll for best beer in show as voted by attendees of London Vegan Beer Fest 2015.
Here is a bumper guest post by Sonja Ter Horst, one half of Australian vegan band Love Like Hate.
Love Like Hate launch their UK wide tour today as part of my vegan roadshow, calling in Nottingham, Leeds, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, Oxford, Bristol and London. Check out more info and grab some tickets here.
Now, on to Sonja’s guest review of London Vegan Beer Fest 2015.
Did you all get along to the mega Just V Show in London Olympia last weekend?
If you didn’t, the following photo collection documents some of the goodness you missed out on.
If you did make it, I’d love for you to tell me what vegan goodies I missed as I scuttled around the venue.
As you know due to my relentless excitement, London Vegan Beer Fest is less than three weeks away.
This year, the massive vegan beer, cider, wine, food and music event has moved to King’s Cross and I am thrilled to have some very special partners helping me make this possible.
Vegan store Vx will be running a merchandise stall inside the venue where you will be able to purchase LVBF t-shirts and posters, as well as a whole range of items from their own Secret Society of Vegans collection.
Fry’s Family Foods have teamed up with Sara Mittersteiner of Pomodoro E Basilico for a gourmet food stand like no other.
Check the menu out below:
If you had asked me a week ago to name one adventure I never thought possible in my lifetime, I could very well have told you a trip to Sheffield to meet a vegan snooker champion was not going to happen.
But check this out!
The brand new issue of Vegan Life magazine features an impressive story about vegan beer. As a lover of compassionate drinking, of course I pushed my snout into the article with my views on drinking kindly.
What is not fab is the more-than-unfortunate subheading for the story on the magazine cover. Drink up, lads? Really? I’m not going to try and explain why this is problematic. You get it, right?
The publishers have been grilled on social media about the blatant sexism and rightly so, with the author of the article even expressing his disappointment with the choice of words.
If you can get past that gruesome mistake, Oliver Coningham has compiled a nifty introduction to vegan beer and I want to thank him for including London Vegan Beer Fest in his article.
You can check out Vegan Life online.
Read more about London Vegan Beer Fest 2015 here.
Remember a few weeks ago when I mentioned I will be at VegfestUK Brighton this March?
Well, check this out!
After all the excess of NYE, Saturday’s menu at London Vegan Drinks is pure comfort food.
You will be able to choose from Cornish pasties, mushroom and vegetable pies or sausage rolls with sides of home cooked ‘skins on’ fries/sweet potatoes and a healthy salad for a mere £7.95.
If you’ve got a grand scheme for some sort of January detox, our host venue Kabaret @ Karamel will also be serving a delicious brown basmati rice superfood salad for £6.95.
Of course the entire bar, like the food menu, is 100% vegan and will include beer, cider, spirits, wine and champagne.
DJs will be spinning between 10pm and 2am. We have Supa B & Springz with fresh tunes following on from their triumphant New Year’s Eve set (people were jumping up and down… really) plus the inimitable Baroness Bamberforth playing pop, house, indie and DEVO!
This is the first London Vegan Drinks of 2015, so let’s make it one to remember.
Click here for all the details.