Very cool interior, reasonable prices, vegan pad thai decent. Spring rolls not great
Gardi’s
Excellent hot & crispy chips with fluffy insides. Hidden-away upstairs seating area. Radio 4 on; listened to Archers for first time in ages
Aromi
Cheap & tasty foccacia pizzas.
London
Tofu Vegan
Am a fan of most things on the menu.
Gauthier Soho
Food is clearly excellent, and really interesting, but getting the full set menu takes an extremely long
time – ~3.5h in the restaurant. And 22:30 is getting towards when I want to be going to bed, not finishing my dessert.
Holy Carrot
Similar concept to Gauthier of well-crafted vegetable-based veggie food, but more much relaxed atmosphere.
Studio Gauthier
The most recent time I went there, the service was disappointingly inattentive & slow. Food is generally good, but rather small portions (especially with the “3d printed steak”)
Taro Soho
Very filling veg bento box, tasty too (£18 so a bit expensive though). Quite busy and one slightly rude waiter.
Dishoom
Cool interior, food fine but nothing special for me
Itadakizen
Their aubergine dishes were impressively soft, almost melt-in-the-mouth, though
I felt like the plates we had should’ve been served hotter – lots felt
lukewarm (but maybe this is customary) .
Taste of Chongqing
OK vegan options, works well for large groups (went for an EV
meetup, with Fuchsia Dunlop ordering for us!)
Champor Champor
Good range of vegan mains & starters. Some dishes were great, others (e.g. plantains, papaya) were meh. Service mediocre and the restaurant has bad acoustics so very hard to hear: tables really packed together. <2min from London Bridge station, so very convenient, but I reckon most of the time I’d go to Mallow instead
Plants of Roselyn
Thai, also right next to LBG. Small in a nice way; good service. The fried mushrooms starter is excellent. Rest of the menu fairly good but not spectacular.
Unity Diner
Abysmally slow but great vegan “fast” food
Persepolis
A restaurant that (in décor) feels like a cross between an ethnic supermarket,
the home of habitual hoarder, and a greasy spoon café, in a very homely and whimsy way. Very tasty food, the feast set menu just keeps coming
Jam Delish
Somewhat soulless interior. A wide variety of faux meat (& fish), almost all of it very tasty. Would skip goat stew though.
Vegan Yes
Fine; not that special. Cool concept of Korean x Italian fusion and friendly proprietor. (My mum gave a huge anti-recommendation, but I didn’t think it was actively bad)
Merkamo
Very prettily-presented, nice Ethiopian food
Dauns
Really tasty smørrebrød (tofu scramble fish), but I feel overly slow service for a cafe
Bento Bab
Good atmosphere and sizzling bibimbap
Mallow
Mildred’s
The Gate
Vantra
Japan Centre
Oxford
La Cucina
Old-fashioned décor in a nice way; had a decent vegan menu
Chiang Mai Kitchen
Surprisingly cheap mains, good veggie menu
The Gardeners Arms
Very cosy pub, has nice outdoor area around the back! Just quite out of the way if you’re not in Jericho. Don’t confuse for the other nearby Gardeners Arms (the veggie one is on Plantation Road)
Hall at Merton
Come for lunch & get unlimited salad/fruit/bread/soup; early suppers are disappointing
Edamame
Seems overrated to me and I don’t get why people queue outside for 15-30min. Veg options fine
but not spectacular, and portion sizes somewhat small for the price
Spiced Roots
Two tasty vegan mains on the menu plus various starters. Quite liked the afrobeats(?) music playing too.
Pan Pan
Three Thousand Restaurant
Hole-in-the-wall place, chickpea noodles are more filling than you’d expect
Green Routes
Pancakes too sweet for my liking but savoury stuff is very good; might have to wait a while for table though
Taste Tibet
Café Orient
Excellent service; especially recommend the fried aubergine
Red Star
Fast, but food is just fine
Gloucester Green
Ceylon Spicy is especially good – they do dosa, kothu roti, and curries
Covered Market
Georgina’s for meze; Rozana’s for wraps (a long line but it moves fairly quickly); Lulu’s is more of a sit-down place, Ethiopian
Kibou
Japanese place. Expensive but nice atmosphere
Al-Andalus
Quite slow & understaffed / inattentive service, but decent tapas. Tables near the toilets are very smelly, so avoid
Handlebars Café
Tasty brunch, often a long queue though
Elsewhere
Cafe Vegu, Lewes
France
Paris
Bululu Arepera
Cheap and tasty, can leave out cheese and have veggie option with plantains + beans + avocado
P1 Bouche
Vegan sandwich and nice tarts (courgette or tomato)
Gamine Bakeshop
Didn’t have any specifically vegan things but made nice sandwiches to order
L’atelier sando
Japanese rice bowls and sandwiches, good fried tofu
La cantine de Sam
Filling salad bowl (“le healthy”)
Bloom Sushi
Delicious sushi. Pretty expensive though, was €60pp (for more than enough food)
USA
Berkeley / Oakland
The Butcher’s Son
All vegan, very nice outdoor seating area. $15 for a sandwich feels expensive to me but it was filling (for a lunch, would be insufficient for dinner)
Thai Basil; Bear’s Ramen House (both in Durant Ave food court)
Tasty, one meal is enough food for two days’ lunches. Have had aubergine & tofu at Thai place twice now
Blondie’s Pizza
Vegan cheese is pretty good
Golden Lotus
All vegan but would not recommend, slow service and food about average
San Francisco
Cha-Ya
All-vegan Japanese place. Small portions but I had a nice tempura noodle soup
Papalote
Cheap, quick, filling burritos. Several vegan options. Didn’t like the soyrizo much but tofu mole with refried beans was great. And you get nacho chips in the bag too!
Tiya
Very fancy and correspondingly expensive Indian food, lots of “experiences” on their tasting menu (which were nice & interesting).
From this experience, I feel like fine dining is overrated. But it’s not worse than a cheaper place so I guess people with the money might as well.
Wildseed
All-vegan, absurdly priced $12 cookie but it was tasty & would return. Was interesting looking at the crowd there and trying to figure out
what kinds of people they were (I didn’t manage to; I find it hard to place Americans socio-culturally)
All-vegan dim sum & noodles. Extremely fast service, very pink colour scheme & lots of loud 2010s pop
Cafe Himalaya
Somewhat small portions, but decent selection of vegan options
V-Nam Cafe
Vegan pho with tofu, generously-sized
Pop’s Bagels Nolita
Le Botaniste
Quite bougie, lots of Le Creuset dishes bubbling away on an induction hob & wooden panelling everywhere. But also it’s like a salad bowl style shop in terms of getting your food at the counter
Il laboratorio del gelato
Really good lychee sorbet (& others)
Van Leeuwen ice cream
Whacky flavours, thought sadly mostly sold out
Vegan Grill
Cheap and lots of options, basically a kebab shop and that kind of quality
Bite
Kiosk-in-the-wall, cheap but a bit greasy, has some vegan bakes too
Xi’an Famous Foods
Cold skin noodles great on a hot day, super cheap
Planta Queen
Teeny-tiny sushi portions, I think you’d need to spend like $80 on food to
actually be full for dinner. But definitely interesting to try and loads to choose from; fast service (can eat at the bar)
Wild Ginger
Felt like an old-school Chinese restaurant with lots of wall decorations,
handwritten corrections to the menu. Lots of options but food somewhat too sweet
Delice & Sarrasin
Impressive to make an all-vegan menu of French cuisine. I wouldn’t choose the steak
options but my “seafood” tagliatelle was good. Yummy crepes.
Chakra
Secret tasting menu!
Seibab Thai
Good value lunch menu
chloe.
Slow, a more mediocre version of Eatwell in Beckenham
Jajaja Mexicana
Yummy (& fatty) churros. Dim orange lighting, kind of place you’d go for a date
Red Bamboo
Had sizzling “steak”, was fine
Woorjip
Great for lunch, canteen-style
Dialogue coffee
Pretty flowers, plays lots of Lana, all vegan pastries!
Veggie Castle II
No seating and not really air-conditioned, but good buffet-style takeaway on the way to JFK.