Vegan

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

  Acclaimed 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

  Vegan 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

  

  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

  Having 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

  

  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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• Lewis Hamilton gets into the plant-based burger biz with Neat Burger

  Already one of the more famous vegans, Lewis Hamilton is now opening his very own plant-based burger restaurant, Neat Burger, just off Regent Street. 

• Brixton's Halo Burger launches a vegan deep-fried Magnum

  

  Already getting respect for serving up one of London's best plant-based burgers, Halo Burger in Brixton has just put another couple of items on the menu that both sound a bit special. 

  First up is the "THIS™ Isn’t Chicken Nuggets" using on the plant-based chicken that THIS™ produce (made to be as close to chicken as possible) with a choice of BBQ sauce, signature sauce, ketchup or mayo.

  But it's the

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• By Chloe. is opening more vegan restaurants - this time at Oxford Circus and the O2

  American import by Chloe. are doing pretty well in London and are opening two more of their fast food vegan restaurants here. 

• KFC is unleashes its vegan Imposter burger in London

  

  Update 3/7/19 - after selling out in three days, the burger is now back in stock

  It was only a matter of time - now KFC is getting in on the whole vegan trend. So if you've moved over to a plant-based diet but sometimes have the intense craving for some of Colonel Sanders chicken (we all do at some point) then now you can head on back for your fix. 

  The new burger is called "The Imposter" in an "I see

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• Rudy’s Dirty Vegan Diner returns to Camden market, and they're bringing a vegan shake bar

   

  If you've been missing Rudy’s Dirty Vegan Diner since they closed for relocation in Camden Market, then you'll be very happy to know that they're now back in a much larger site, still within the market. 

  And that bigger size means that more is on offer - the biggest change being the addition of a vegan shake bar. That'll be serving up vegan freak-shakes made

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• Squeg + Bonez to bring plant-based dishes and natural wines to Hackney

  Two friends, Holly and Alice, are behind the new launch, bringing with them experience at Cornerstone and in the coffee world at AllPress and Monmouth.

• Plant-based pizzas come to King's Road with Humble Pizza

  Vegan and vegetarian pizzas are the order of the day at this very pink Chelsea plant-based pizza palace. 

• St John’s Wood​ ​is getting their own The Gate, and that means vegan brunch

  Given they’ve been in business since the 80s, it’s no surprise The Gate know a thing or two about veggie and vegan cooking. Now they’re taking their plant-based knowhow to St John's Wood, with a new restaurant that’ll have brunch, lunch and a newly extended menu.

• Vegan afternoon tea is now a thing thanks to by CHLOE

  

  We've had vegan burgers, vegan fish and chips and vegan cocktails, so it was only a matter of time before London started seeing vegan afternoon teas on offer. One of the first we've heard of is from US import by CHLOE, which is launching their afternoon tea next week.

  As you'd expect from any trad tea set, there'll be teeny sandwiches including 'tuna' salad, 'egg' salad and smoked 'salmon' with cream cheese. That 'salmon', for example, will be made by

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• We Are Vegan Everything vegan cafe opens in Hackney

  Comfortably riding the vegan wave, We Are Vegan Everything is a vegan cafe in Hackney from the same people behind Camden Market vegan bakery, Cupcakes and Shhht.