Vegan

• The plant-based Neat Burger (backed by Lewis Hamilton) moves into Camden Market

  

  Neat Burger, the plant-based burger chain that's backed by Lewis Hamilton, is growing. They already had a restaurant in Mayfair, but now they've just expanded to Camden Market too, which opened this week.

  The food is all based around their own plant-based pattie, with burgers including: 

  • The Big Stack - Double Neat Meat Patty, Triple Bun, Lettuce, onions, Pickles, Tangy Big Stack Sauce
  • Chick'n Burger - Crispy Chick’n Patty,
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• Club Mexicana brings vegan tacos & more to Soho

  After pop-ups and residencies across London, Club Mexicana are bringing their vegan Mexican food to Kingly Court. 

• Club Tropicana sees By Chloe and Club Cultured team up in Clapham for a vegan pop-up

  

  A new vegan pop-up is on the way for August. it's a team-up between By Chloe (vegan fast food) and Club Cultured who are all about fermentation and tempeh - a traditional Indonesian plant-based protein made from fermented soybeans. 

  They'll be popping up in Clapham (in the space which once held Kerbisher & Malt and The Mayfair Chippy) with a completely plant-based menu of brand

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• Veggie Pret's bakery counter goes all-vegan, with new croissants, brownies & more

  

  Pret may be having some difficulties at the moment, with fewer workers in the office, but the Veggie Prets continue to be very popular. And they're moving to the next stage of development with the launch of an all-vegan bakery counter. Making it all-vegan means that they're also launching lots of new pastries. 

  • The Vegan Plain Croissant, The Vegan Almond Croissant and The Vegan Chocolate Croissant
  • Vegan Banana and Walnut
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• Ikea launch Plant Balls - the vegan equivalent to their legendary meatballs

   

  We're among many, many people who have a not-so-secret love of the Ikea meatballs. A trip to the store isn't the same without a plate of meatballs and chips and then taking home even more for the freezer. Just writing this is making us crave them right now. God, we love them. 

  But if you're vegan or vegetarian - the meatballs have been out of reach - until now. Because Ikea is about

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• The best veggie and vegan burgers being delivered in London

  

  For the times when you want a delivery driver dropping off a towering plant-based burger to your door - we've got you covered.

• Pied a Terre is delivering Michelin-starred vegan meals

  

  Vegans were already well catered for at David Moore's Pied a Terre, with dedicated a la carte and tasting menus on offer. Now, they've kicked off their delivery service and this has started with an all-vegan menu too. 

  Here's this week's selection:

  • Chickpea, kidney bean and cumin hummus with pink peppercorns
  • Salad of broad beans, borlotti, cannellini, fennel and mint
  • Chilled
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• Simplicity Burgers are doing a limited drop of their vegan kits with Turner & George

  

  Not all burger kits are created equal and you can expect the one dropping this morning to be an instant hit. In an interesting tie-up, chef Neil Rankin has joined forces with top London butchers Turner & George to sell a limited run of his Simplicity Vegan Burger Kits.

  There will be just 100 kits on offer - each containing 4 x Simplicity Patties, 4 Sesame Vegan Burger Buns, Simplicity Burger Cheese, Simplicity Sauce, Pickles,

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• The best vegan and vegetarian food for delivery in London

   

  London's recent boom in plant-based restaurants has taken a little longer to filter into the delivery scene - but there are notable exceptions. Here's our pick of some of the best delivery options for anyone after vegan or vegetarian food during the lockdown. 

• 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

  

  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

  There’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

  Three 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

  

  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

  

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