vegan UK

New vegan café for London

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You can never have too many vegan cafés, but East London is pushing it!

Say hello to the new vegan café on Hackney Road called Sazzy & Fran.

The café owners reached out to let me know the idea behind their business is to provide tasty, economic vegan meals with a good balance between nutritious and indulgent. They have a rotating menu every week, with a different main dish made fresh every day. You can enjoy your meal in a lovely outdoor space, which is perfect as we head into summer.

You have just got to say yes to vegan French toast!

Sazzy & Fran Café is located at 499-505 Hackney Road in container 16c. Click here to see the exact location thanks to Google Maps. It’s just around the corner from Cambridge Heath train station.

You can follow Sazzy & Fran on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Vegan tattoo in London

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Have you ever wanted a tattoo but can’t reconcile it with your vegan belief system and lifestyle?

Well, you don’t need to put off your penchant for skin art any longer in London. Get busy knowing Maury Decay.

Maury is an artist at Santo Cuervo Studio in Stoke Newington, a loudly and proudly all vegan tattoo studio. Every single thing they use from paper to ink to aftercare is completely vegan and they are fucking proud of the fact.

You should follow Maury on Facebook and Instagram.

Also…

Maury is raising funds to be able to afford to host a booth at the upcoming HUGE Drag World UK convention taking place in London this August. The costs involved are monumental and Maury needs to raise £1000 in order to be at the show.

£300 of the £1000 target has already been met, so Maury needs the vegan community to get behind this project to make the dream of appearing at Drag World UK a reality.

Once at the show Maury will be donating 50% of takings to London Friend, a charity that supports the health and mental wellbeing of the London LGBTQ+ community.

Click here to donate to this worthwhile campaign now. Every little bit counts and Maury will be extremely grateful if you can help out.

If you are not in the position to donate to this project, please share this campaign far and wide. A gay vegan tattoo artist deserves all the help we can offer.

Special offer on vegan cake

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I love when a new season rolls around, not least because of all the new flavours and treats from superstar vegan bakery Ms Cupcake.

The summer menu from Ms Cupcake involves a brand new fruit flapjack and a S’mores cupcake. I’m drooling.

Check these out.

Summer Fruit Flapjack
Smores Cupcake

They seem to be something of which I could make short work. That means I would eat them very quickly and decidedly.

I want to show you some of the other treats coming up as part of the Ms Cupcake summer menu, but before we get to that let me tell you about a special offer from the bakery.

To celebrate their new menu, they are offering 20% discount on postal orders of bakery items for the whole of June! Use code ‘Indulgence’ at the Shopify checkout to receive the savings. Click here to shop.

Cupcakes can be delivered around London while all the bakery items such as slices can be sent UK wide.

Follow Ms Cupcake on Instagram before you check out the rest of these drool-worthy photos.

Blueberry Lime Cupcakes
Mango Blueberry Muffins
Raspberry Cheesecake Brownie
Raspberry Mango Cupcake
Almond Coconut Cupcake
Pina Colada Square
Speculoos Cheesecake Cupcake

Glorious London venue for vegan events

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If you are looking for a gorgeous new venue in London that only supports vegan events, 10 Cable St is for you.

10 Cable St is a new vegan venue in London E1. A former pub known as The Horns and Horseshoe, this was the first public house in London to ban segregation. It started welcoming customers from all ethnic minorities in 1949.

It has been lovingly restored, keeping many of the original features while creating a light, bright, airy and tranquil space. They hosts a wide range of workshops, classes, supper clubs and events based around the themes of food, design and wellbeing and also invite others who shares this vision to collaborate or to host their own events. Yes, get in touch with 10 Cable St if you are a vegan chef or event planner.

I asked founder Moko what the philosophy was behind opening a vegan events space in central London. Here is what I was told:

At 10 Cable St, we think that it’s important to consider the wider impact of the things we do on a daily basis. From the food we eat, to the things that we buy and the products we use, minimising the impact on our bodies and the planet is always at the forefront of our minds. We aim to use only natural, plant-based ingredients in the dishes that we serve and, where we can, we source locally and use organic products. This way, we know where our food has come from and that the impact of getting it from ground to plate has been minimal.

If you want to ask about hosting your own vegan event in this beautiful space, get in touch with Moko via the 10 Cable St website.

If you are interested in keeping updated with all the wonderful events taking place at 10 Cable St, follow the venue on Facebook and Instagram.

100% vegan pub food menu

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If you enjoy the idea of a 100% vegan pub food menu, then you really need to get to The Peacock in Nottingham.

This local pub situated about 200km north of London (for those unfamiliar with UK geography) is all about serving up mouthwatering vegan pub food 7 days a week.

Check out the stunning menu just released last week.

I don’t even know what to start singing the praises of first.

Pakoras. Seitan wings. Fish and chips. All day breakfast. Sunday roast. Ribwich. My head is spinning from this menu… and it’s all vegan!

Food is served at The Peacock between midday and 3pm and then 5pm until 8pm every day, except Sunday. Sunday hours are midday until 4pm. Click here to see where the pub is located thanks to Google Maps.

Follow The Peacock on Facebook and Twitter.

Yay for vegan pub food!

Grilled cheese this weekend

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London, you have something very special happening this weekend and you must put a reminder in your phone NOW.

Decadent comfort food superstars Joey’s Kitchen will be back at The Boiler House on Brick Lane this weekend (Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 June, 2017) with a spectacular menu.

Check it out.

OK, so grilled vegan cheese sandwiches are fabulous in their own right but look at all of those extras you can add. Bacon bits! Jackfruit! Seitan!

Of course you would also have to make room for a slice of the baked cheese cake.

Follow Joey’s Kitchen on Instagram and let me know if you get your hands on a sandwich this weekend.

New vegan spreads

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Here is some handy news for people looking for widely available and affordable vegan margarine.

Flora has released three new spreads and each one carries the trademark logo from The Vegan Society.

Check out the three new packs below.

The three spreads include avocado oil & lime, coconut & almond oil, plus walnut oil.

Of course some people are not interested in buying products owned by Unilever.

If you are looking for these new spreads, you can buy online from Tesco and Ocado. Tesco also have them in stores.

Have you tried any of these spreads? Did you like them?

Finally Pizza Express joins the club

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I’m really not sure why this has taken so long, but it finally has arrived so you need to know.

After years of watching multiple other pizza chain restaurants introduce a vegan cheese option to their menu, Pizza Express is now offering vegan mozzarella.

It used to be that you could take your own vegan cheese into one of the almost 500 outlets in the UK and Ireland for the chefs to add to a customised pizza (I’m not joking), but now you can go into any one of their restaurants and order a vegan pizza without having to bring some of the ingredients yourself.

The following is from the official Pizza Express announcement online this week:

For some time now, our customers have been telling us that they want a vegan mozzarella alternative on the menu and in parallel, the world of vegan ingredients has opened up and become so interesting, enticing and tasty too. So, after a lot of tasting and testing, from June 20th we finally have an option that we believe you’ll love. One that we can say is sufficiently delicious to warrant it’s inclusion on our menu and sit atop our unique dough and delicious passata.
Made in Italy using Italian ingredients, our new vegan mozzarella alternative melts perfectly in our pizza oven and gives a creamy finish to any recipe. To celebrate, we have taken some of our favourite ingredients and created a new pizza recipe that combines flavoursome artichokes with our new asparagus, red onion, garlic oil, black olives and seasoning on a classic dough and passata base to create our new Vegan Giardiniera. Not only this, our vegan mozzarella alternative is available to be used across all of our pizzas, making this a great option for those looking for a dairy-free alternative.

How do you feel about this new option? Is it going to make your life any easier when it comes to dining out with friends, family or colleagues?

Yay for vegan pizza!

Tibits gets a new location

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One of London’s top spots when it comes to vegan-friendly eating in a non-vegan spot is tibits.

This buffet-style eatery just off Regent Street has long been a hub for plant-based eaters. This might have something to do with most of their food being suitable for vegans, including delights such as sticky toffee pudding and a huge range of salads and pastas.

This month sees the opening of a second London version of tibits (if we don’t count the west London version that came and went very quickly years ago).

Fans of the serve-yourself restaurant can know fill up on their vegan options near the Tate Modern on the south side of the Thames.

The maps above shows the new location set to open this month (June 2017).

You can see all of the tibits locations over on their website, including the multiple restaurants spread around Switzerland.

Are you excited about another tibits?

Follow tibits on Facebook to stay updated on the opening.

New vegan milk in Sainsbury’s

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I wrote about this brand coming to the UK a little while ago, but the time has finally arrived.

Cailfia Farms plant-based milks have started showing up in Sainsbury’s stores around the UK.

Dean, a super friendly reader, sent me this photo taken inside Sainsbury’s South Woodford.

I’m super excited about Califia Farms now being available around the UK. These milks are delicious.

I’m also curious about the Soya Dream  Oat Dream bottles on the shelf below. I’ve haven’t tried yet and I can’t wait to get my hands on these.

Have you tied any of these new plant milks?