Vegetarian

• 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

• 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.

• A plant-based restaurant comes to London Fields with The Field

  The Field put plants and veg first in London Fields. Se up by the man behind The Porridge Cafe, expect a very veg menu but with the option to pimp up with meat or fish, if you want. 

• The best restaurants for vegetarians in London

  Looking for restaurants that do much more than merely accommodate those with a plant-based diet? We showcase the best veggie-friendly establishments in the city.

• Mildred's King's Cross

  Vegetarian food in King's Cross

• 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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• Carl Clarke teams up with Chantelle Nicholson and Sophie Michell for International Women's Day burgers

  

  We're usually pretty partial to anything chef and restaurateur Carl Clarke (Chick n Sours and CHIK'N) comes up with but two new limited edition burgers he's been working on sound even more our thing than usual.

  Carl's teamed up with two top women chefs to celebrate International Women’s Day (8 March) this week.

  At Chick ‘n’ Sours Seven Dials there's a perfect dish for veggies. Here the partnership is with chef Chantelle Nicholson from ...

• Cheeky AND squeaky - Nando's introduce halloumi sticks to the menu

  

  You know it's not all tasting menus and wine pairing here at Hot Dinners HQ. We'd be lying if we didn't admit to being just as partial as the next person to a cheeky Nando's. So it's only to be expected that our timeline totally blew up today with the news that they're about to launch two new veggie dishes.

  I mean, we're glad to hear that there's a veggie stew coming - Veggie Cataplana mixes chargrilled veggies with chickpeas and beans, in a hot tomato and coconut

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