There are plenty of environmental and social arguments for increasing the proportions of plant-rich dishes on your menu, but in this article, The Sustainable Restaurant Association looks at the benefits it can bring to your business – and your bottom line. 1. REDUCED COSTS, HIGHER MARGINS Ingredients for plant-based dishes are generally cheaper than meat and dairy. […]
Irina Linovich’s vegetable-focused project Holy Carrot will open its first bricks and mortar restaurant in Notting Hill next month, with a ‘fire and ferment’-based menu from chef Daniel Watkins, co-founder of Dalston’s ACME Fire Cult. Irina launched Holy Carrot four years ago with a series of supper-club dinners, and the permanent site aims to show […]
The new vegan restaurant from Great British Menu 2024 winner Kirk Haworth, Plates in Shoreditch, has already proved a smash hit – months ahead of its July launch. When advance bookings opened this week, its computer crashed under the weight of 70,000 applicants. Kirk trained initially with his father, Nigel Haworth, former chef-patron of Northcote in […]
Neat Burger, the plant-based fast-food brand backed by Lewis Hamilton, is launching in the US this year with a target of 1,000 branches around the world by the year 2030 – in anticipation of a meat-free world ten years later. The company has eight branches up and running in London with another 30 in the pipeline. […]
Global celebrity chef Daniel Humm is quitting his restaurant at Claridge’s in Mayfair at the end of the year after the hotel blocked his desired move to a plant-based menu. The Swiss chef, whose Eleven Madison Park headquarters in New York topped the World’s Best 50 Restaurants list in 2017, has undergone a Damascene conversion […]
American ‘raw food’ celeb chef Matthew Kenney is to open a plant-based restaurant in Selfridges before Christmas. Adesse, which means ‘to arrive’ in Latin, will occupy the former site of the Corner Restaurant on the second floor, adjacent to the women’s designer galleries. Kenney runs 40 restaurants around the world, from New York to Bahrain […]