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if you;re interested in cooking meat free at home then Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's 'Veg Every Day' is the best veggie cookbook I've ever owned, particualrly going into the winter months.
spoken with the experience of a meat eater who has lived with and as his veggie girlfriend for the last 6 years
as for restaurants in the capital: the world food cafe in neal's yard is a friendly place for lunch, as is Vitae on Whardorf St. (which does buffet style plates for about £6). I've still yet to find a veggie michelin/st. pellegrino celebrated restaurant though :/
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Vegan Peasant
Do pop-ups and markets (I think Columbia Road) and the odd special event.
If you get a chance to try it, their stuff is amazing.
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Thanks Ben. Hugh did some telly on that book, inspired me to make celeriac gratin which rocked!
yeah i remember that. The world food Cafe have two veggie books that are also quite good but for a more global palette.
Yottam Ottelenghi's 'plenty' has lots of veggie dishes too but I find he uses some ridiculous ingredients. Can anyone well me that've legitimately used Sumak in a dish? No?
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Yottam Ottelenghi's 'plenty' has lots of veggie dishes too but I find he uses some ridiculous ingredients. Can anyone well me that've legitimately used Sumak in a dish? No?
I agree but I've just learned that it's easy to grow indeed people on my allotment grow it) so I'll have a bash and fgrow a whole plant for the two recipies where he mentions it!
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The Bonnington Cafe in Vauxhall
http://www.bonningtoncafe.co.uk/
and Mildreds in Soho
http://www.mildreds.co.uk/enjoyed my meals a lot in these two places.
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Also, this is quite recent:
http://decorandstyle.co.uk/best-vegetarian-restaurants-in-london/
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It's sad but I really really fucking miss RedVeg. When I'm in central London I don't want a plate of lentils, grains, pulses, cabbage and salad leaves. I want a RedVeg burger with mushrooms and BBQ sauce, fries and spicy breadcrumbed mini sweetcorn firesticks.
I recently had a "burger" salad box from Borough Market and was incredibly envious of my girlfriend with her grilled cheese sandwich. Don't call it a burger if it's a wodge of bland quinoa that is going to disintegrate all over a pile of bland salad. This is what meat eaters think vegans like to eat.
Go to Milk Bar for a coffee and their homemade beans with toast and avocado (I think the avvo is just on the vegan version, usually sour cream or something)
Mildred's is OK, I like the mushroom and ale pie. Good cakes too I think.
I mostly just make nice food at home and prepare for disappointment when I eat out.
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I mostly just make nice food at home and prepare for disappointment when I eat out.
this is what normally happens at posh meals out with the mrs. I eat splendidly and she is underwhelmed. Exception being The Kitchin in Leith, Edinburgh where she had something involving the smoothest, most flavoursome sweet potato gnocchi I could imagine. Lovely.
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Coach and horses Soho, posted about it somewhere else on the forum.
I suppose this as good a place as any to put this. As the Aforementioned Bacon loving muslim from earlier in the thread have a review of sorts for you.
On Saturday I had the pleasure of my better half taking me here for dinner.
http://www.coachandhorsessoho.co.uk/
They only do a set menu at £15 for 2 courses, or £20 for 3, so not that cheap, particularly for us, but as it was a special occasion, we treated ourselves.
The setting was absolutely lovely, and as we were having a particularly early dinner, we caught people who were having the tale end of their afternoon tea. The whole room is decked out like a 1930s tea room, with waiting staff in pseudo period dress, and songs of the era playing on a gramophone. Very twee, and not the sort of thing that would normally be to my liking, but surprisingly I enjoyed it.
Onto the food. Is tarted with the welsh rarebit which was served with a side salad. I know this is essentially just cheese with cream on toast, but lovely cheese was cooked, and it was served to perfection, I really enjoyed it. Nhatt had I think it was a stunning looking Puy lentil and something else salad. I'd love to say how good it was, but she enjoyed so much I didn't get to try any.
For the mains I had the portabello mushroom burger and chips. Standard gastro pub fair, but once again served to perfection. They were out of the haloumi cheese this was meant to be served with, so I had it with goats cheese. It was also served with a beautiful onion relish and their home made mayo. Lovely.
Nhatt had the beer battered Tofu, chips and peas, again served with homemade Mayo. And once again she enjoyed this so much that I had none of it!
Whilst eating, I also looked at what other people were eating around us, and whilst I can't testify as to how it tasted it looked stunning. there was a beetroot Tarte au tatin, and the home made veggie sausages and beans.
Portions were sizeable and I struggled to finish mine. Whilst it sounds like standard gastro pub food, it was done to a far higher quality than I've encountered in your normal gastro pub.
We left incredibly satisfied.
Also worth noting if you're there for just a pint, the veggie sausage rolls are brilliant. I used to love drinking here and eating their meat filled sausage rolls with a pint, and was surprised last month when I ordered one and it was veggie, but it didn't disappoint.
Definitely worth going to, and even the most hardened meat eater will enjoy the food. If they don't they're more than likely lying.
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I've still yet to find a veggie michelin/st. pellegrino celebrated restaurant though :/
Here's a michelin place:
http://www.vanillablack.co.uk/
I found it a bit poncy, but I find anything that doesn't do pizza or curry poncy. The menu's a bit of a daft Hester wannabe confection - the lettuce foam soup was possibly the worst thing I ever tasted.
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It's sad but I really really fucking miss RedVeg. When I'm in central London I don't want a plate of lentils, grains, pulses, cabbage and salad leaves. I want a RedVeg burger with mushrooms and BBQ sauce, fries and spicy breadcrumbed mini sweetcorn firesticks.
Me too - I loved going there - a real once in a while treat (I had to limit myself or I'd end up morbidly obese as I'd probabky eat there every day otherwise).
After the one in London closed down I was very sad but got all excited as I remembered there was one in Brighton and I was popping down there for the day.
It was fucking closed down there too. :(
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My favourite place for vegan 'junk food' is the gallery at the bottom of old ford rd, near the childhood museum. Service can be pretty hit or miss, but its cheap and the vegan burgers are huge
Shit I keep forgetting about this place, never checked it out.
Does anyone remember a hole-in-the-wall style burger outlet in Camden? Probably last saw it 8-10 years ago. Pretty sure the patties were based on Burgamix but they were pretty great. Had vegan garlic mayo and stuff.
And the 99p (crap) burger place that replaced the Tai buffet on Greek St? Disappeared after a few months. Weird place, chatted to the owner who'd never heard of RedVeg despite setting up 1 minute away.
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Just eaten a delicious lunch at The Orchard on Sicilian Avenue. Real food, some vegan options available ... it's not cheap but I'm impressed! As recommended by my pals at Control Couriers. They must be doing very well!
Please post good animal-free food finds below! I'm in a mission to eat less meat, fish & dairy so I thought I'd start a thread.
Ta.