The Vegan Thread

Where's good for something quick and relatively healthy around Liverpool Street or Hackney?

King Cook Daily, Hanbury street

https://g.co/kgs/ss7eKct

Edit: closed on a Sunday? Wut.

Ok - the Ethiopian stand in spitalfields market then!

Pilpel also good in Spitalfields, if a chain.

Amazing, I was desperately trying to remember the name of King Cook Daily the other day and it was driving me mad! Shame it's not open on a Sunday.

@kl - Pilpel is my go to around there but I need something a bit less beige today!

The Ethiopian stall Caz mentions has opened a restaurant, in the space where there was another vegan one before (can't remember its name).

https://www.happycow.net/reviews/merkamo-vegan-east-london-433605

Only three glowing reviews on Happy Cow. It doesn't seem to have been open for long.

That might be where we end up! Thanks Oliver and Caz.

Another question! Any suggestions for somewhere around Covent Garden for dinner that's good for vegans and non-vegans?

The unhelpful answer might be - it's just a bit shit around there. That's my experience of wandering around with my son a few times looking for somewhere to eat. I could have missed some gems, however.

Mildred’s is nice, non-vegans can actually eat vegan food and not die ;)

Are you sure about that?? I'm actually asking for my partner who's going out with work work colleagues. I think she's too nervous about the whole thing anyway to rock the boat but having the gall to suggest that someone misses out on eating a dead thing.

I feel for her. I’ve been on more than one work meal where the reply to is there a vegan option was we could do you an omelette or such. Twats.

Homeslice? Or do you want more fancy

Went to a work Xmas lunch a few years back and questioned where my vegan option was - turned out it was the bowl of carrots and parsnips everyone else had shared with their roast beasts...

Good suggestion! I'll pass it on. Thanks.

Mildred's is a safe bet, as non-vegans will like the food, too. It's a reason for their success.

More of a lunch/cafe place but Cream Dream the Ukrainian run cafe is around there for anyone looking for somewhere in that area in the future

Back to the West London recommendations, Portabello Health Foods (formerly The Grain Store) is a really good, lots of options and can pile it up if you ask for an open takeaway.

Mildred's is a safe bet, as non-vegans will like the food, too.

Srsly Oliver, have you ever met any meat eaters? You take a bunch of randoms from any average workplace to a vegan place, they'll put in a complaint to HR.

I'm sure they would love it, I just don't think my partner has the confidence to suggest it, haha.

Top tip, thanks! I'm back there this week so I'll have a look.
Last week I went to Nourish Hub on St Ann's Road which was lovely. A community centre serving great food (with at least 1 vegan option for each meal) with a sliding scale for payment. Would recommend.

I've taken numerous meat-eaters to vegan or vegetarian restaurants, yes, including Mildred's. Not work colleagues, admittedly. You just tell them a place has delicious food. Sure, it wouldn't work for every vegan place, but Mildred's has a formula that seems to wow people.

Well, there's a first time for everything. :)

Extract Labs D8 gummies are Vegan. You'll pay through the nose for postage from the US, but they do have regular promotions and if ordering a couple of tubs it doesn't work out too badly

Bud Mother sell their own brand of D8 and HHV vegan gummies in the UK. Although they often seem to be sold out.

We recently took our whole team at work to Wulf & Lamb and nobody batted an eyelid. The person who booked it had no idea it was vegan.