London vegan news, reviews & events
I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed by the wonderful Jordi.
Jordi is someone I’ve known for many years. He is a vegan activist, a journalist, and an attendee of my FGV events.
Jordi has a new podcast/vlog series in which he interviews vegans while walking the streets before stopping for a cup of tea at a vegan or vegan-friendly cafe.
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You’ve seen me rave about Okja in Spitalfields, just a few minutes walk from Liverpool Street and Spitalfields Market.
If you are new here, Okja is a vegan bakery and coffee shop chain with locations in South Africa. A little while back they opened their first-ever UK location on Toynbee Street and people can’t get enough.
The pastries are all hand-crafted inside the bakery and every single item is exquisite… and vegan!
I popped in yesterday to catch up on the latest. Below you can see the photos I grabbed showing some new items and some recently updated items. Sensational.
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It’s Tuesday and it’s podcast day.
I don’t make the rules, I just live by them. Actually, I do make the rules. Not sure why I wrote that.
In this weeks episode, Josh and I chat about our collective love for The Killers, childhood memories of The Goonies, the fabulousness of Cyndi Lauper, and the starvation and genocide of Gaza.
It’s a real mixed bag again.
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It’s not every day that a vegan fast food spot makes me do a double take over a salad, but here we are.
If you’ve been following along, you’ll remember I wrote a few months back about The Hogless Roast setting up at Crate in Walthamstow. Well, consider this your friendly reminder that they are still there and still turning out some of the most satisfying plant-based food in the area.
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Do you know Natasha Orumbie? Perhaps you’ve heard of The Vegan Patty Lady.
If you’ve not had the pleasure of trying one of Natasha’s Jamaican patties, I’m here to tell you that your life is missing something special. Luckily, that’s an issue you can now sort out from the comfort of your own sofa. The Vegan Patty Lady is now selling her patties online and I want to twell yo uall about it.
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I had the absolute pleasure today of visiting a space super rooted in community care and purpose and I’m still feeling good from the experience.
Pulse & Pickle in Walthamstow is not just another vegan café. It is a space packed with hope, justice, and outrageously delicious food.
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Three years ago, my friend Josh and I sat down and decided the London LGBTQ community needed something. We needed a place to express. To perform. To create. To listen. To connect. So we started Queer Open Mic.
That was back in 2022. We had no idea where it would go, but we knew what we wanted it to feel like. We wanted it to be safe. We wanted it to be welcoming. We wanted people to turn up with songs, poems, guitars, jokes, and voices.
And we wanted them to leave feeling like they’d been seen and that they belong.
Fast forward to 2025 and Queer Open Mic is still going strong. In fact, it’s thriving. We now call The Cock Tavern in Kennington our home. It’s a proper south London gay bar with heart, and it’s the perfect setting for a night that is all about lifting up community voices.
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If your ideal Saturday night includes beats, vegan food, and a dance floor full of happy people, keep reading.
There’s a free club night coming to north London and it’s got everything your plant-based heart could ask for. It’s called Plants ‘n’ Bass and it’s happening at the ever-welcoming Karamel Club on Saturday 2 August, 2025.
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If the thought of another night alone with a meal deal and an even sadder swipe app makes your blood run cold, I’ve got news for you.
Sylvia, the brains behind vegan and vegetarian speed-dating events in Bristol and Liverpool, is bringing the love (and the friendship) to East London. Mark your calendars for Sunday 18 August, 2025 because Love Shack is about to be taken over by plant-based romantics and platonic hopefuls.
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Another Tuesday means another podcast episode.
Tell Me Where I’m Going (Wrong) is barrelling along into its second year and the chaotic and unrehearsed nature of it persists.
In this episode, Josh and I chat about LGBT icons as well as Ozzy Osbourne, classic Australian television show Prisoner, The Cosby Show, and lots of other random topics.
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If you appreciate my blog posts and the work I do to support vegan business and challenge injustice, please consider making a one time small donation of a couple of quid online here. You might also be in the position to sponsor my work on an regular basis via Patreon.
You can order my book ‘Fat Gay Vegan: Eat, Drink and Live Like You Give a Sh!t’ online now. It has been out a while now but is still a good read. You can also listen to the Audiobook read by me!
Follow me on Instagram, Threads, TikTok, Facebook, and Blue Sky.