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- Jam Delish bring their vegan Caribbean food to Islington with an ex-Fifteen chef in charge
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If you're looking for a positive thing you can say about the lockdowns, they do seem to have given a lot of people the push they needed to open their own business. One such lockdown-generated company is Jam Delish. Co-founder Jordan Johnson was furloughed during lockdown, which is when he took that opportunity to start up his own popup. Jordan, whose mother is
... - Yard Sale Pizza's Veganuary pizza is The Romesh Spesh with Romesh Ranganathan
Not only is Romesh Ranganathan all across your TV right now, he's even managed to spare time to slide into the restaurant world this month with a collab with Yard Sale Pizza. The vegan comic has teamed up with the pizza group to come up with his very own pizza for Veganuary.
The Romesh Spesh, which goes on sale today, is topped with Sri Lankan curried aubergine, coconut sambol, mint raita and
... - Brixton's Ritzy cinema gets its own En Root vegan cafe
South London's plant-based group En Root is heading to Brixton. The brainchild of South Londoners Nish Modasia and his cousin Harshil Modasia, who also have places in Peckham and Clapham, the new cafe is being touted as the first vegan cafe to open in a UK cinema.
If you haven't been to one before, En Root focus on what they describe as an Indian fusion menu, inspired by Nish's Gujarati
... - Club Mexicana goes big with vegan tacos and frozen pina coladas in Spitalfields
If the thought of California-style street food gets your motor running, or if you were already making pilgrimages to Club Mexicana at their Kingly Court or Seven Dials locations, then news of an upcoming Spitalfields location will make the job of hunting down vegan tacos even easier.
Located in the former HotBox site, Club Mexicana Spitalfields promises an even bigger menu and some serious bar
... - The "mostly vegan" Tendril returns - popping up near Regent Street
After a popular (and much extended) pop-up at The Sun and 13 Cantons, chef Rishim Sachdeva is bringing back Tendril for another pop-up (with a permanent restaurant to come too).
The new pop-up will be just off Regent Street (most recently where Bindas Eatery was and Stem before that). As before, it will be all about (mostly) vegan dishes using his
... - Flat Earth Pizza are opening a permanent meat-free restaurant in Bethnal Green
You may have caught them in pop-ups and residencies over the past couple of years. but now Flat Earth pizza are getting ready to unveil their first restaurant (which just happens to be where they held their first-ever pop-up).
Set up by Sarah Brading and Rich Baker, Flat Earth are all about meat-free pizzas with an added focus on sustainability. Together they
... - Burger King opens a meat-free restaurant on Leicester Square
We'd been hearing that Burger King were going to be trying something new with the reopening of their Leicester Square restaurant - and they've certainly done that, going completely meat-free.
We've had meat-free Prets, and a recent meat-free Honest Burgers but we think this is the first of the big fast-food giants to take the plunge.
This new restaurant adds fifteen new
... - Mao Chow is moving and transforming into Facing Heaven
Vegan restaurant Mao Chow has come to an end - but Facing Heaven is rising to take its place.
Julian Denis, the man behind Mao Chow, has closed that restaurant in Hackney but is opening just around the corner in a new guise. It's a bigger space which means that they can do a little more with the menu, broadening their influences to take in Cantonese, Yunnan and Shaanxi cuisines as well
... - Punk Pasta brings vibrant plant-based pasta to Bloomsbury's Brunswick Centre
There's a lot of change afoot at Bloomsbury's Brunswick centre at the moment, we've had new openings like Tian Tian supermarket and now they're about to get a new plant-based pasta restaurant, Punk Pasta.
It comes from Erich Ribeiro, best known for
... - Mildreds takes over the old Angus Steakhouse on St Martin's Lane
It's good news for anyone looking for a plant-based spot to book in London's theatre district. Mildreds is opening on St Martin's Lane this spring.
This'll be the vegan restaurant group's sixth London restaurant since they burst onto the London scene with their pioneering opening in Soho back in 1988.
The all day spot in Covent Garden sounds pretty large - the two floored restaurant actually used to
... - Baggio Vegan hit up Walthamstow with their plant-based burgers
They've been plying their Amalfi-coast inspired Italian burgers in and around Walthamstow for the past five years, but now father and son team Baggio Burger are stepping things up. Last week they opened their first dine-in restaurant in E17, but this one is a bit of a departure from their usual meaty offerings, being devoted to plant-based burgers.
Baggio Vegan has five vegan burgers on the menu including their
... - Best vegan restaurants in London by cuisine - sushi, tacos, Sunday lunch and more...
For Veganuary - but just as useful for the rest of the year - we've compiled an uber edit of plant-based restaurants that have particular specialities...
- Stem & Glory brings plant-based food to Broadgate Circle
22/9/22 - Updated with the opening date
Stem & Glory, the plant-based restaurant in The City, moved pretty far afield for their second restaurant, opening in Cambridge. For their third opening, however, they're back in the same territory as the original with a new restaurant that's coming to Broadgate Circle.
Here's a taste of what's on their vegan
... - Honest Burgers go vegan with new V Honest restaurant
Updated 11/1/21 with opening date
After opening Honest Burger restaurants all over town, they're now looking to try something different with V Honest, their first fully vegan burger restaurant.
The menu will have vegan versions of the Honest and the Tribute and to that, they're adding the Buffalo, Pesto, Teriyaki and the Chilli burgers. At this point, the Teryaki's the only
... - Adesse at Selfridges is US celebrity vegan chef Matthew Kenney's new London restaurant
Updated 12/10/21 with opening date
We'll confess we hadn't heard of American chef Matthew Kenney before. But it turns out he's a pretty big deal, with more than 40 restaurants around the world and a slew of A-list celebrities loving what he does. And what he does is plant food - but he makes it sexy.
Having opened restaurants in New York, Bahrain and Sydney, it was only a matter of time before
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