Your £5 entry goes straight to madeinhackney.org, a local plant based cookery school and food kitchen helping some of East London’s most vulnerable people. It also entitles you to 1 free beer and free pizza all night!
NXT LVL’s master chef will be cooking up a storm in our courtyard, showing us the secrets of making food so good, you don’t notice it’s saving the planet. Come down, try some next level pizza, talk about the future of food and get to know your community.
@ HWK – 29 White Post Ln, London, E9 5EN
Thursday 12th May: 7pm – 11pm
£5 entry – free pizza + 1 beer* – 100% of proceeds go to Made In Hackney
CLICK HERE to buy your ticket now. Numbers are strictly limited.
*Pizza will be served by the slice. Beer tokens will redeem 1 alcoholic or 1 non-alcoholic beer. A soft drink option will also be available. Please check bar listing for more information.
Ever since I adopted a vegan lifestyle over 20 years ago, I’ve been searching for the best plant-based pepperoni pizza.
We didn’t have a lot of pepperoni pizza opportunities in Australia when I was younger and by the time I got to the UK where they were more popular, I was vegan!
But hey, guess what, people? I think I’ve found the vegan pepperoni pizza of my dreams… and you can invest in the company responsible for bringing it to the UK capital.
NXT LVL PZA is a fast food concept that was pretty easy to fall in love with.
I stumbled upon the NXT LVL pop up restaurant in Soho just over a month or so back and was swept up by excitement and greed. The brand is all bright colours and video game imagery while the menu is 100% plant-based.
The idea of the concept is to give hungry people (like me) the food they desire while doing good stuff for the planet and animals. I saw so many people getting excited about the pizza before they realised it was plant-based and that excitement didn’t let up when they started eating.
The pizza from NXT LVL is extremely tasty.
I think what NXT LVL PZA has got right is not trying to invent the wheel when it comes to ingredients that other people do incredibly well already.
The brand has created partnerships with leading plant-based companies such as Beyond Meat to create pizzas with toppings that can’t be, er.. topped!
This is why the pepperoni pizza has got me all hot and bothered.
The Spice Invaders pizza (see photo above) features the mouthwatering pepperoni slices of Verdino Foods. This is by far the best plant-based pepperoni I have ever enjoyed. My childhood dreams are coming true!
Following on from a trial delivery kitchen near Battersea over the past few months, NXT LVL PZA is ready to take their delicious vegan menu across London via a series of delivery kitchens. I think they plan on opening ten delivery kitchens as a starting point!
And if you like the sound of getting a slice of the action (get it?), you can invest in their expansion via a crowdfunding campaign. Of course you need to know that any sort of investment opportunity carries risk, no matter how much some chubby Australian blogger loves vegan pepperoni pizza.
Click here if you want to discover more info about investing in a chain of vegan pizza kitchens.
Extra note: keep a close eye on my social media announcements in the coming week. I love NXT LVL so much, there might just be an FGV pizza party sponsored by the brand coming to London and you will definitely want to be a part of it.
Every now and then, I like to jump on here to share my latest haul of freebies.
I don’t get sent lots of stuff for free but it comes semi-regularly. I also get a few invites to dine with restaurants in exchange for sharing on my social media. I’ve included a few of those opportunities in this latest roundup.
First up, my mate Mirel and I were invited to try the menu at Holy Carrot. This swanky vegan restaurant is in the even swankier neighbourhood of Knightsbridge.
The menu is inventive and it was nice to have a change from burgers and fries. No, I haven’t gone off fast food but I do appreciate a change now and then.
Click on the original post below to scroll through out food photos.
If you don’t wanna wait until I get myself in order to post on here, the quickest way to see what I’m getting given for free is to follow me on Instagram.
Imagine ten years ago someone telling you it was possible to order frozen gourmet vegan pizzas for home delivery and that you had a huge range from which to choose.
It would have seemed laughable (and desirable).
Well, guess what?
One Planet Pizza are the future and they have all the pizzas for your taste buds and can ship directly to you, including this cheeseburger variety!
You can order all of the pizzas from the One Planet Pizza online shop, where you can even set up a monthly rolling order to ensure you will never run out of pizza again with their UK delivery option.
Only days after announcing their third location will be opening in Hove, superstar vegan pizza chain Purezza has announced ANOTHER location is on its way.
This time in Bristol.
Not long after tripling the size of their Camden branch to become the biggest vegan restaurant in the UK, Purezza will be opening at 79-81 Gloucester Road, Bristol which just happens to be the site of a former butcher before being taken over by Pigsty, a pork and BBQ restaurant.
They are reclaiming the space for the vegans!
The ethos and ingredients behind Purezza’s plant-based Neapolitan pizzas may be a far cry from the building’s previous occupants, but they are nonetheless loved by foodies globally, having won National Pizza of the Year in 2018 in the UK, Vegan Restaurant of the Year 2018, and being prize winners in the World Pizza Championships in 2019.
Purezza is known for crafting its own plant-based mozzarella, and a unique sourdough pizza base made with organic wholegrain flours. These are used in a range of pizzas from classics like the Margherita, to unique inventions like the Parmigiana Party which uses aubergine parmigiana and meat substitutes for its toppings.
The restaurant will also serve a full gluten-free menu, a large range of creative cocktails, and raw dishes including a raw pizza using a base made with seeds and nuts, and raw tiramisu made using finely blended cashew nuts. Food will also be available via local delivery services.
Hello friends of Mexico City. (Blog post in Spanish below English)
Sebastian of Gold Taco has developed a big following by making delicious vegan pizzas at Bazar La Veganería every month.
Now that Mexico City is practising social isolation, Sebastian has announced he will be making his vegan pizzas from home delivery.
The vegan pizza delivery service is starting this Friday April 3, 2020. If you want pizza on Friday, you need to place your order the day before on Thursday.
Gold Taco will be delivering pizzas every day. If you want pizza on Saturday, order on Friday. If you want it on Sunday, order on Sunday.
The delivery range will be the neighbourhoods of Condesa, Roma, Narvarte, Del Valle, Napoles, and Coyoacan.
The menu is simple and features 6 varieties of pizza:
Pepperoni (Vegan mozzarella, tomato sauce, and vegan pepperoni)
Supreme (Vegan mozzarella, tomato sauce, red onion, red pepper, mushroom, and vegan pepperoni)
Hawaiian (Vegan mozzarella, tomato sauce, pineapple, and vegan ham)
Margharita (Vegan mozzarella, tomato sauce, and fresh basil)
Mushroom (Vegan mozzarella, tomato sauce, mushrooms, garlic, and parsley)
Tomato pie (Tomato sauce with garlic, olive oil, and fresh basil)
Each pizza costs $160 (Mexican pesos) and they are approximately 12 inches.
To order, message Sebastian via WhatsApp 55 2449 7204 with your order. Make sure you tell him your preferred delivery time between 12pm and 8pm.
Pay cash on delivery.
En español….
Hola amigos de la Ciudad de México.
Sebastian de Gold Taco consiguió una buena base de seguidores por hacer deliciosas pizzas veganas en el Bazar mensual, La Veganería.
Ahora que la Ciudad de México está en aislamiento social, Sebastian anuncia que tendrá pizzas veganas a domicilio.
El servicio de entrega de pizza vegana comenzará el viernes 3 de abril de 2020, de 12pm a 8pm. A pesar de que la entrega se hace diariamente, todos los pedidos que se hacen se entregan un día después. Así que planea y ordena tus pizzas con un día de anticipación.
El rango de entrega contempla la Condesa, Roma, Narvarte, Del Valle, Nápoles y Coyoacán.
El menú es simple:
• Pepperoni (mozzarella vegana, salsa de tomate y pepperoni vegano) • Suprema (mozzarella vegana, salsa de tomate, cebolla roja, pimiento rojo, champiñones y pepperoni vegano) • Hawaiano (mozzarella vegana, salsa de tomate, piña y jamón vegano) • Margarita (mozzarella vegana, salsa de tomate y albahaca fresca) • Champiñones (mozzarella vegana, salsa de tomate, champiñones, ajo y perejil) • Pastel de tomate (salsa de tomate con ajo, aceite de oliva y albahaca fresca)
Cada pizza es de 30 centímetros y tiene un precio de $160.
Para realizar un pedido, puedes enviar un mensaje a Sebastian a través de su WhatsApp 55 2449 7204. Asegúrete de mencionar la hora de entrega.
I don’t know how you are all coping with me saying the same thing over and over, because I’m even sick of the sound of my own voice.
It is distressing to watch all of our vegan money be sucked up by huge corporations while independently owned local vegan business go under.
Ms Cupcake of London has recently announced they will be closing their doors (read about it here) and now we have this warning shot being fired by vegan pizza specialists Zad’s of Manchester.
Read the fill statement below:
It’s been a tough six months for us, here at Zads. We sent an email out around New Year explaining many of the issues we had been having, but it seems to have been picked up by a lot of junk mail filters (the Happy New Year subject probably could have done with being a little more original perhaps).
As many others have already said, the mainstreaming of veganism is incredible and something we’ve all dreamt of for a long time, but it comes at the expense of many vegan businesses; hardly a week goes by now that we don’t hear of another independent vegan business calling it quits and shutting up shop. We’re not quite ready for that yet, but we do need to make a few changes.
From this week, we will now be closed on Mondays AND Tuesdays, plus we will not be opening until 5pm on Saturdays and Sundays.
For some time now, our weekday takings have all but disappeared. It is not uncommon for us to not even take enough to cover staff wages, let alone the cost of the food we’re selling and the other costs which come with running a business. We have always been in the fortunate position of not being here to make a fortune. The owner of Zad’s has never taken a penny of income from the business and the business was set up as an extension of the vegan activism which he and the other founding staff members feel is so important.
We hope that compressing our opening hours a little will make the business a little more viable and if it is possible, we will take the opportunity to hire an extra driver at the weekend, to help take off some of the strain during busy periods. We would also dearly love to pay our staff a little more too, which they so thoroughly deserve. This also means that a small price increase is coming in the next couple of months, along with a few small changes to our menu.
Thank you all for your wonderful support, every order, every positive review, or lovely message, really does mean the world to us. We’re trying our very best to make this work, but we can promise you it’s not easy. Many sleepless nights over the last six to twelve months and probably more to come.
We have been inundated with amazing reviews recently, so we know you love what we do – we do, too.
If we do not support independent vegan businesses, they will disappear. When we only spend our money in huge conglomerates, our money disappears out of our communities. Local people cannot make a living being vegan if we don’t support them. They can’t pay their bills. They can’t employ other local people.
If you live near Zad’s and you have the spare cash to eat takeaway food occasionally, please make a pledge to do it.
I’m in no way saying that is a bad thing, I’m just commenting on how it seems to be popping up everywhere in London.
One of the most-loved vegan pizza joints in the UK capital is Good Belly which is located inside The Railway Tavern just a few steps from Dalston Kingsland Overground station.
The pizzas at Good Belly get rave reviews from those in the know, so I can only imagine how delicious these two Christmas-themed specials will taste.
The first seasonal special I want to tell you about is their Christmas Day Pizza. It is constructed from a cranberry & merlot tomato base, mushrooms, red onion, stuffing crumbs, bacon bits, parsnip puree, and shredded sprouts.
That is one dreamy Christmas pizza!
Another special they have is their flaky (and delicious) Santa’s Sausage Roll. Good Belly assure me it is one of the best sausage rolls on the planet.
Check it out.
Both of these specials from Good Belly will be on their menu until December 22, 2019 so hop along rapidly if you want some seasonal treats.
You can see the full regular menu from Good Bellyonline here, follow the restaurant on Instagram, and check out the exact location of The Railway Tavern thanks to Google Maps.
London. Do you need more vegan pizza in your life?
Superstar vegan pizza makers, Picky Wops, have just announced they are opening a restaurant on Brick Lane in East London. Huge news!
Picky Wops have been wowing people around London with their gourmet take on pizzas for a few years now.
A recent kitchen takeover at a pub in Brixton has been a runaway success, as have all their appearances at outdoor markets and events around the capital. People can’t get enough of their unique flour mixes, gourmet toppings, and good vibes.
If you aren’t familiar with what Picky Wops do, read on.
Picky Wops pizza bases are all fully customisable and each dough has a different colour, texture and flavour. Available bases include burnt wheat and turmeric. Pizzas can be served cheeseless or with vegan cheese, and a mouthwatering variety of toppings are available.
If pizza isn’t your thing (really?!), classic Italian sides such as garlic bread, dough balls, and a variety of vegan pasta dishes are also featured on the menu. A firm favourite is their carbonara which comes complete with meat free bacon bits. Carb loving Londoners will also appreciate the innovative loaded fries, topped with Italian inspired sauces such as pesto and bolognese.
Ingredients used by Picky Wops are high quality and plant-based, while all dishes are made from scratch. Founders Cristiano Vitelli and Andrea Moro are both trained in the art of pizza making in their home country of Italy, meaning their food remains authentic.
Enough chit chat. Where is the new Picky Wops location?
You will be able to find the restaurant at 53 Brick Lane from their opening date of Friday December 13, 2019. You can see the exact location thanks to Google Maps.
For December only, visitors can sample a festive white pizza aptly called The White Christmas. This special is topped with spiced sweet potato mash, roasted brussel sprouts and walnuts, seasoned soya, sweet cranberry jam, vegan mozzarella and a light sprinkling of parmesan.
