Don’t you just adore a fabulous bar with plenty of vegan beer and tubs of vegan snacks? What do you mean you’ve never been to one?!
Get your compassionate bones to Leeds as soon as possible to enjoy this fine experience.
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Amazing Berlin festival wrap up
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This weekend was the Berlin Vegan Summer Festival, and it would have been remiss of me to not visit and take photos of food for this blog. So I did my duty and headed down to Alexanderplatz.
On Friday we had a spicy hot dog with sauerkraut from popular vegan company Wheaty…
…and also a not-egg-mayonnaise bagel, from die Leckereienfabrik (roughly translates as the ‘delicious things factory’, a café in Berlin we haven’t got around to visiting yet!).
On Sunday we had a wonderful burger and sweet potato fries from the Vincent Vegan food truck. The photo doesn’t do the burger justice, it was full of crispy fresh veg, and guacamole.
We also shared this big choco-waffle with squirty cream, which was nice but not amazing.
To finish off, here’s something we didn’t eat but will do soon: two doughnuts from Brammibals. The doughnuts are sat in the fridge right now, calling out to me.
There’s one coconut and one toffee. (I think that calling just got louder!) And in case you’re worrying, those aren’t plastic containers, but some sort of biodegradeable material. Which is nice.
That’s only a small selection of everything available at the fest. There’s only so much I can eat!
In addition to all the food, the serious side was also covered, there were lots of animal protection causes, people working against factory farming, good people spreading the word about veganism. There were talks and discussions in the congress tent, and also music entertainment on the main stage.
A very full three-day event, and I doff my cap to the organisers!
A visit to The Gate Islington
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The Gate is somewhat of an institution in London, dating back to 1989 when their original location in Hammersmith opened. The Islington branch opened its doors more recently in 2012 and benefits from a prominent corner position on St John Street at the end of Rosebery Avenue.
Vegan chocolate spread
Don’t blame me when you become hopelessly devoted to this product. I’m just the messenger.
Morrisons stock a chocolate hazelnut spread in a jar for just 80p. All of the ingredients are plant-based, however it does carry the ‘might contain traces’ warning with which we are all familiar.
Check it out.
I idolize you
This is a massive blog post. Actually, scratch that. It is a MASSIVE blog post.
Get your scrolling finger ready and dive head first into this incredibly interesting interview I recently conducted with the fabulous Marc Massive of the band Massive Ego.
We talk music, Boy George, veganism, fashion, love and more.
This is one of my favourite posts in a long time so I’m sure you’ll love the read, too.
Thank you, tibits
Do you all remember when we helped a young person named Alex with a school marketing project involving a collection of his vegan recipes? Sure you do!
Alex went on to have the most successful project in his school and was shortlisted as a finalist in a business competition run in Sheffield.
Flash forward to last night and I met up with Alex and his mum for dinner in London!
Vegan in Liverpool
The Vegan Roadshow was travelling quickly through Liverpool this week but of course we made time to get some eating in.
Check out two of the meals I was able to consume in the brief amount of time we had in the city.
Unexpected vegan
Don’t you just love when you stumble upon unexpected vegan food? It’s even sweeter when you are in a beautiful location such as Queensferry, Scotland.
Check this out!
Yay Pesto!
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Ok. This might not be exactly earth-shattering news for anyone, but I was delighted to see Sacla have included the words ‘Suitable for Vegans’ on the new packaging of one of their products. Sacla are a household name in the UK and are the go-to people for decent, reasonably-priced pesto. Last year they launched dairy-free versions of their popular basil and tomato pesto jars, using tofu and cashew nuts to compliment the taste and add a cheesey element to the sauces. Regrettably they didn’t mention the word vegan on the jar, although a quick read of the ingredients list confirmed that the products were indeed free from all animal products. So I was pleased to pick up the new-design jar in Sainsbury’s today and see those magic words ‘Suitable for Vegans’ on the back of the jar. I wish more food manufacturers would follow suit!
Follow Sacla on Twitter here.
Laugh and drink beer
Breaking news
I am thrilled to announce an exclusive performance by comedian Jack Yapp on the London Vegan Beer Fest stage.
Jake is a multi-talented writer, producer, performer, voiceover person, dandy, delinquent and dedicated vegan.
Jake works hard to make people laugh, as he will be doing during his residency as part of Camden Fringe in August. Between August 10 and 23, you can check out Jake’s One-Derland show where he picks apart a day in the life of BBC1 in order to examine the future of the Beeb.
Click here to read more about One-Derland and be sure to follow Jake on Twitter.
Jake hits the London Beer Fest Stage at 4pm sharp.
Book tickets for London Vegan Beer Fest by clicking here NOW!