Vegan

• 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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• A second By Chloe. is coming to London at Tower Bridge

  The popular US vegan chain is following up its first opening in Covent Garden with it's second at One Tower Bridge. Expect vegan fast food aplenty.  

• Made in Chelsea stars to open Tell Your Friends vegan restaurant in Parsons Green

  Reality TV stars Lucy and Tiffany Watson from Made in Chelsea are expanding their brand with a vegan restaurant for Parsons Green where they're hoping dishes like vegan "chicken" bites will attract a wide clientele.

• Dumplings, drunken noodles, gadgets and more - your weekly roundup

  

  From a new champagne bar in Primrose Hill to an all veggie menu in Islington, we bring you all the news that was fit to print (but we just didn't get around to covering elsewhere this week)...

• Here are the seven new burgers Byron has put on the menu

  

  It's been an "interesting" period for Byron. It's probably fair to say that with their rapid expansion - not to mention hitting the headlines over immigration issues - they've lost some of the love that the British public had for them, back in the day.

  But the burger chain is

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• Plates in Shoreditch is a one night a week plant-based restaurant that should be on your radar

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• Sutton and Sons in Stoke Newington are launching a vegan fish and chips menu

  

  The latest section of the London food scene to chase the vegan pound is the chippy. And Stoke Newington's Sutton & Sons are first out of the gate. They're launching a new vegan menu with vegan ‘fish’ & chips.

  They did some noodling around with ideas during Veganuary apparently and came up with the idea of using banana blossom which they say is "remarkably like the real thing due to a marinating process in seaweed to give the fresh seafood

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