The Vegan Thread

Anyone recommend somewhere to have an evening meal as near to Paddington station as possible please.

Small room in vegan household available in Brockley.

https://www.gumtree.com/p/flats-houses/single-room-in-vegan-family-home-brockley-se4/1310759260?utm_campaign=socialbuttons&utm_content=app_ios&utm_medium=social&utm_source=ios_social

Probably Darcy Green: http://www.daisygreenfood.com/venues/darcie-may
Literally outside station. Makes a few vegan things.

Cooking for a good friend and is new (first time I've met her) partner.
I have zero experience of vegan cooking but enjoy cooking.
Any suggestions for a good dish(es) to impress?

How did it go?

Really well. Antipasti, Caponata and a very good bottle of Gavi. Which nearly put me instantly to sleep.
Need to get ahead of the game for the next one they were talking babies!!

This is around the corner from my house, and next one is on my birthday. Rejoice!

Great news. The former Piadina Genuina in Hackney Wick has rebranded and is now in Bethnal Green as a full-blown Italian restaurant.

http://fatgayvegan.com/2018/08/20/vegan-italian-restaurant-in-east-london/

Judging by how good the piadine are, I'm sure this is going to be a success.

Actually the only Vegan cookbook we've got is River Cottage, Much More Veg. Nice recipes in it, but there are loads more around too. Sorry can’t recommend any others but hope you find something.

Looking for flat mtb shoes with mesh upper. Any recommendations?

Paris. Anyone know of anywhere vegan in Paris?

https://www.hankrestaurant.com/
Best burgers in Paris.

Cheers mate, looks great.

There's also http://www.eastsideburgers.fr/en which is pretty good

There's an amazing falafel spot near the Louvre too, the name escapes me but it's pretty well known so shouldn't be hard to track down.

Lots of health food/bio shops all over the city for snacks etc too

There's a place called VG patisserie. Tiny spot, amazing vegan pastries.

Thanks guys, just leaving Paris now, after treating my carni mates to a Hank Burger - great stuff, even if they don’t serve beer anymore.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/25/veganism-intensively-farmed-meat-dairy-soya-maize

Kinda forgetting that most of those crops are grown as animal feed.

Mentioned here -

*There’s no question we should all be eating far less meat, and calls for an end to high-carbon, polluting, unethical, intensive forms of grain-fed meat production are commendable. But if your concerns as a vegan are the environment, animal welfare and your own health, then it’s no longer possible to pretend that these are all met simply by giving up meat and dairy. Counterintuitive as it may seem, adding the occasional organic, pasture-fed steak to your diet could be the right way to square the circle.*

The article is still nonsense. Of course we want animals to roam freely and do natural things that are good for the ecosystem. You can let them do all that without catching and slaughtering them when they still have lives to live. If everyone was vegan, we'd need far less agricultural land and there'd be plenty of room for re-wilded, self-regulating ecosystems.

Not really, it mentions reducing intensively farmed meat, which is obviously good, and mentions grain fed in the same sentence but starts off the article specifically mentioning soya and maize, soya being a traditional "vegan" crop in most people's eyes when 70% is passed through an animal before it reaches a human. I don't disagree with the her take on intensive farming, and yeah, the same issues should be considered of crops, but this reads like more of an advertisement of her farm than anything else.

Had a cracking meal at The Gate in Marylebone last night although service was pretty miserable. Smiling appears to be banned in there.

Been to Dolores in Berlin Mitte the third time now
(second time I queued for 10 mins, ordered, waited 20 mins, then asked for money back as there were still 20 people in front of me at that point) -
so this time it was still crowded (it always is), there were I think five people preparing burritos simultaneously (though I couldn't help but think that if I'd be working in a Schneckentempo like that I would have been fired a long time ago) - still I got food like 15 mins after ordering, and gotta say it was really really good.

So tl;dr go there if you're in the mood for cali-mexican food and have a little time on your hand.

Not quite an advertorial - anyway the comments are open now and appear to be of a better standard than usual.

of particular interest in the comments:

... What people are probably not aware of is the fact that Knepp Castle Estate (the land belonging to the author) is the most popular haunt of the Crawley and Horsham hunt. Isabella Tree raves on about wildlife and herds of cattle and pigs living in harmony on her land but fails to mention that she gives permission for the hunt to run riot throughout it on a regular basis. I have lost track of the number of times we have seen foxes, rabbits, hare, birds and their much lauded 'English longhorn cattle, Tamworth pigs, Exmoor ponies, red and fallow deer' chased and sometimes killed by hounds either manically out of control or being purposely encouraged to chase and kill their quarry. What a fucking joke!!! If you were thinking 'hang on a minute there, hunts don't do that sort of thing anymore, especially not round these parts', check out this other Guardian article about the Crawley and Horsham or just trawl through any of our local groups sites to see the hypocrisy laid bare... https://www.theguardian.com/…/hunt-members-guilty-fox-hounds

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You could also pay the estate a visit yourself, stay in some luxury 'eco' accommodation and witness the harmony for large sums of money..... errrrr nah don't reckon thanks. We will be there soon to stop the needless slaughter on Isabella's estate once the hunting season gets underway soon. See ya in the fields Izzy...... love Brighton Hunt Sabs

appear to be of a better standard than usual.

I take that back now - comments appear to have gone postal and at the depressing level of something like a helmets 'debate'.