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How would you like 15% discount at three of the finest food outlets in London throughout January?
Yes!
All you need to do to save 15% on any dish or any meal deal at CookDaily, Home and CookDaily Croydon is to show up and order.
No secret handshake. No confusing codes. Good for January 2017 in celebration of Veganuary.
London. You are truly becoming a spoilt brat.
Do you remember reading about the drama vegan café Buttercream Dreams was experiencing in Croydon. You can read about it here, but the short story is owner Lauren needed new premises and was going to have to leave Croydon and mover her business to central London if she couldn’t find something suitable.
She couldn’t find a venue. Sorry Croydon.
Lauren is now set to open the Camden version of Buttercream Dreams at 126 Camden Road from Thursday 9th June, 2016. Yes, THIS week!
Before the café opens just steps away from Camden Road train station this Thursday, I wanted to share some of their tasty food photos with you.
All of the above photos have been featured on the Buttercream Dreams Facebook page, which you should like NOW!
London, get along to support this new adventure for Lauren in Camden.
Croydon, all is not lost for you either.
Lauren has advised she will continue to keep doing a stall at the Surrey Street Market in Croydon and will keep looking for a suitable shop front. When she can find one, Buttercream Dreams will have two fabulous permanent locations.
Do you remember when I flipped out about CookDaily having the best vegan food in London.
Sure, you do. I even swore. Check out the blog post here.
It seems you can’t keep fabulous food down because CookDaily is set to open location in addition to the pop-up they have in Boxpark Shoreditch.
Check out this interview excerpt in which King talks about where he is taking his scrumptious food creations next:
A few days ago I put a call out to concerned vegans. A vegan food business took a knock (really) and I wanted to rally the troops and make a sizeable donation to help them back on their feet.
Guess what?
We reached the target set of £500 in just a few days. I have already transferred the funds over to Veg Instead, so hopefully the hungry vegans of Croydon will have their favourite street food back again soon.
Greg of Veg Instead wrote in response:
The response has been really touching and the money will be really helpful. Please say thanks to your followers on our behalf.
How lovely! Vegans helping vegan business. We did it.
Scary news out of Croydon.
The traders running vegan street food market Veg Instead had an extremely fortunate escape from serious injury today when a car crashed into their business.
According to London Evening Standard:
An unmarked police car crashed into a south London market stall amid a police chase following an armed robbery this morning.
The black Citroen hit a stallholder and then smashed through a vegan food stand at Surrey Street Market in Croydon just after 9.10am.
You can read the full story here.
As soon as I found out about this accident (thanks Oliver for the tip), I phoned stall owner Greg to check if everyone working this morning was OK. He assured me all was fine as far as physical wellbeing goes, however most of the Veg Instead equipment was destroyed.
This is where the vegan community comes in to help fix this situation.
I have set up a Just Giving page to raise the funds to replace the destroyed equipment. Greg estimates the damage at around £500.
Click here to donate now.
We have the collective power to get Veg Instead back on the road instantly. Insurance claims can take weeks and every day they wait to reopen, Veg Instead are losing income and Croydon is without a vegan food option on its streets.
All we need is 500 people to give £1 and I know more than 500 people will read this story. We can and should use our vegan might to sort this out.
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