Vegan

• Vegan influencer Loui Blake is opening Kalifornia Kitchen in Fitzrovia

  An all-day vegan cafe in Fitzrovia, eschewing junk food in favour of healthy, nutritious dishes.

• Biff's Jack Shack brings deep-fried jackfruit burgers and more to Boxpark Shoreditch

  Summing it all up: A permanent set up for Biff’s Jack Shack at Boxpark Shoreditch, with a range of deep-fried jackfruit burgers, wings and sides.

• Redemption Bar brings their health-conscious food and drinks to Covent Garden

  This is the third Redemption Bar to hit London, which focuses on healthy eating, including lots of vegan and gluten-free options. And there's an alcohol-free cocktail bar on top of that. 

• Wild Food Cafe is bringing its vegan delights to Islington's Upper Street

  Plant-based menus and vegan pizzas will feature at this new Islington outpost

• Sutton and Sons goes vegan with its Hackney restaurant (and opens a bigger one down the road too)

  Sutton and Sons are lauded as among the best fish and chip restaurants in London. And now they're embracing the vegan market by opening a vegan-only restaurant in Hackney.

• KERB is going completely meat-free in Devonshire Square

  

  A brand new KERB street food market is on the way but it's one with a difference - it'll be completely meat-free. They're linking up with WeWork, who have a location on the square and who already have a meat-free policy in action. 

  This will be the 10th KERB market, and as well as the traders on show, they'll also be developing future vegan and vegetarian offers there with their "inKERBator" programme so expect to

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• Flipside on Cowcross Street will serve everything from morning smoothies to late night veggie burger treats

  Right around the corner from the meat traders at Smithfield Market is this new plant-based all day spot, serving up smoothies and juices in the morning, salads and soups at lunch and then turning into a fully-fledged burger spot in the evening.

• Stokey Veg Vegan will be Stoke Newington's new veggie-focused restaurant

  Expect a British/Italian small plates menu from this new vegetarian and vegan restaurant opening up on Stoke Newington High Street

• Genesis in Shoreditch will be a vegan restaurant with an organic award by The Soil Association

  A new two-storey vegan spot in East London with a lengthy drinks menu, lots of international food and an ingredients list that's so organic, it's certified by the Soil Association. 

• Sinner in Hackney lets you play video games that reward - or punish - you with booze (plus vegan pizzas)

  Seb Lyall, the brains behind London's naked restaurant and Bletchley Park cocktail bar, is at it again with a whole, 200-cover space to play with on Hackney's Mare Street. First up - an arcade that rewards, or punishes you, with shots, depending on how well you play. 

• Try vegan freakshakes and milkshakes at Byron Burgers pop-up

  

  Top news for vegans with a sweet tooth - Byron Burgers are launching a new pop-up milkshake bar that’s 100% vegan, running for 10 days just outside Oxford Circus Tube. They’ll be churning out all manner of extra-thick milkshakes, that are dairy-free and vegan-friendly, including some everyone's favourite calorie bomb, the freakshake, with customisable toppings. And if you’re not sure what a freakshake is,

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• Buffalo is a new plant-based diner that's just opened on Brick Lane

  London's booming veggie and vegan scene throws up another East End opening as Buffalo diner offers a casual, entirely plant-based dining experience.

• The new Stokey Bears burger bar in Haggerston gets ready to add a vegan burger menu

  Burgers plus an extensive vegan menu at the new Haggerston branch of Stokey Bears.

• V For vegan lifestyle and food festival hits Brick Lane this August

  

  Shoreditch's Vegan Nights market is set to go next level for August as part of a new vegan lifestyle festival at The Old Truman Brewery. Running for the whole of the month, V For says they're aimed at vegans, vegetarians and the V curious (their term, not ours) with fitness, shopping and food events running throughout the festival.

  On the food front, in addition to Vegan Nights' usual traders there are a couple of interesting new folk. Key among those is

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• Mao Chow vegan Chinese brings its devilled eggs and sashimi to Behind The Wall

  

   

  East London's popular vegan Chinese restaurant Mao Chow broke the hearts of plant eaters across town when its last pop-up at Pamela finished. But now owner Julian Denis whose self-proclaimed "inauthentic Chinese Food" broke Instagram with shots of incredibly realistic looking vegan 'eggs' in various Chinese dishes has moved it to a more permanent footing.

  They open at Behind the Wall in Hackney on Thursday for an

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