Vegan

  • The Athenian goes plant-based for their latest souvlaki deliveries

    The Athenian goes plant-based for their latest souvlaki deliveries 

    More and more restaurants are going delivery-only during the lockdown, but we haven't seen quite as many vegan restaurants make the move, so far. One that is shifting is souvlaki merchant, The Athenian. They're launching a whole new delivery service on Deliveroo called Athenian Plant-Based (really on-the-nose with the naming).

    On the menu, they'll have, available as a wrap or in a

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  • Halo Burger team up with Nanban's Tim Anderson for a vegan katsu burger

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    London's vegan burger scene couldn't be more enticing at the moment, particularly with the launch this week of a rather special new burger in Shoreditch.

    From tomorrow, Halo Burger will be selling what they say is "the UK’s first-ever vegan katsu burger". They've teamed up with Nanban owner and MasterChef winner Tim Anderson for this one-month special, which will be available at their new Shoreditch spot.

    It's made with a panko crispy

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  • Vegan grab-and-go outlet, Good to Go, is opening a second site in London

    Vegan grab-and-go outlet, Good to Go, opens a second site in LondonThere’s no disputing the popularity of veganism in London, so it’s hardly surprising that Good to Go, which started life as a-based pop-up in Old Street Station in 2017 soon launched a nearby permanent site and is now opening a second, this time in Charing Cross Road, with an increased focus on its takeaway options.

  • Peachy Goat will be a plant-based all day cafe and restaurant in Herne Hill

    Peachy Goat vegan cafe and restaurant Herne HillThree childhood friends from South London are behind this new all day spot serving up plant-based food and inspired by their Italian and British backgrounds.

  • Cookdaily are bringing their vegan bowls back to Boxpark Shoreditch

    Cookdaily is bringing their vegan bowls back to Boxpark Shoreditch

    His London Fields restaurant may have closed, but King Cook is bringing Cookdaily back to Boxpark in Shoreditch (where it first started back in 2015), serving up his acclaimed vegan bowls. 

    That'll be music to the ears of all the well known folk who have flat out loved his food over the past few years. Everyone from Skepta to Professor Green. D Double E and Giggs have posted about their fandom for

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  • Test Driving Bubala - a Hot Dinners readers' favourite in Spitalfields

    bubala restaurant review london spitalfields

    This plant-based restaurant in Spitalfields is a big hit with Hot Dinners readers - we went to find out why.

  • Clapham's Counter culture gets a new vegan residency with Alter

    Clapham's Counter culture gets a new vegan residency with Alter

    It's time for a change at Counter Culture, the small restaurant next to The Dairy (and by the same people) which runs regularly changing residencies. This time it's the turn of Alter, for an all-vegan takeover. Alter is founded by Andy Hogben, who has previously worked at Dabbous, Som Saa and Kym’s and offers vegan food with street-food influences. 

    The menu will change over the period, but here's

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  • Yard Sale are going vegan - but not just for January

    Yard Sale Vegan

    It is - as they say - Veganuary, when you're encouraged to go fully plant-based for a month. But Yard Sale Pizza are going one step further. They already have one popular vegan pizza on the menu - now they're adding three more as permanent additions. 

    The new pizzas are: 

    • American Hot - Tomato sauce, vegan mozzarella, vegan pepperoni (which they've created themselves) & guindilla chillies
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  • Million Pound Menu's Jay Morjaria is previewing dishes from JAE at Hovarda

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    Ever since featuring on My Million Pound Menu, chef Jay Morjaria's plant-based food has been in demand. Now the chef, who is currently working on plans to open his own standalone restaurant JAE, will be previewing dishes from that restaurant in Soho.

    For January Jay will be taking over the kitchens at Hovarda every lunchtime. His completely vegan, East Asian menu will include dishes like:

    • Chicory, kohlrabi and carrot salad with
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  • Kingston Kigali are serving up their Rwandan Jamaican vegan food to Peckham Levels

    Kingston Kigali Peckham Levels

    New to Peckham Levels is Kingston Kigali, an East African and Caribbean inspired food vendor. It's run by Stacey Uwimana who combines her own Rwandese Mukiga heritage with her business partner Salma's British Jamaican background to serve up vegan food with a difference.

    Inspired by the food they eat at home, they've come up with an offering intended to put Rwandan food on the map. "We aim... to get people discovering the beauty of a

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  • Simplicity Burger, Neil Rankin’s plant-based burger restaurant to open in Brick Lane

    Simplicity Burger, Neil Rankin’s plant-based burger restaurant to open in Brick LaneAcclaimed chef Neil Rankin has spent eight months working on the secret ingredients for a unique plant-based burger, which will feature on the menu at his new environmentally-friendly restaurant, Simplicity Burger on Brick Lane.

  • Earthling Ed's Unity Diner moves to a bigger Spitalfields site

    Unity diner opens in Wentworth Street in SpitalfieldsVegan activist Earthling Ed's Unity Diner is moving on to bigger things - leaving the original Hoxton Market premises for a larger site in Spitlafields. But the full plant-based menu is the same. 

  • Brewdog team up with Biff’s Jack Shack to make BrewDog Dalston their first vegan bar

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    If beer and burgers are a match made in heaven, then vegan beer and vegan burgers must be the equivalent of nirvana for East London. That's presumably the thought process behind a new collaboration between BrewDog and Biff's Jack Shack.

    The two companies have teamed up to make the brewer's Dalston location the group's first wholly vegan bar. So they'll be serving up vegan jackfruit based ‘junk’ food along with an exclusively

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  • Jake's Vegan Steaks bring their Philly Cheezesteak to a permanent spot on Holloway Road

    jake's vegan steaks opens on Holloway RoadHaving grown a huge fan base for their vegan Philly cheezesteaks, this plant-based street food trader has opened its first permanent spot on Holloway Road.

  • Huge drugs bust at Gatwick turns out to be Purezza's vegan cake mix

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    British Transport Police thought they'd made a massive drugs bust this week when a suitcase stuffed with bags of powder was found at Gatwick Airport Station.

    The only trouble is that the dodgy looking 25 bags weren't filled with a Class A substance but, rather more boringly instead, a huge quantity of vegan cake mix. It turned out to

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