Camilla Fayed’s high-profile plant-based restaurant Farmacy in Westbourne Grove is closing after eight years on Sunday 7 July. No reason has been given for the move. When contacted at the restaurant, a spokesperson said the business’s external events catering arm would remain in operation and an announcement would be made later this year concerning a […]
‘Mostly vegan’ chef Rishim Sachdeva is to open a new café at Somerset House on the Strand next month, following his launch last year of restaurant Tendril in Mayfair. His new ‘plant-first’ all-day venture, Café Petiole – named after the thin stalk connecting a leaf to a stem – will feature pastries and desserts from Tendril’s head […]
Prominent vegetarian restaurant Greens, of Didsbury in south Manchester, has closed down after 33 years following a 35% rent hike – while Copper & Ink in Blackheath, southeast London, is another New Year casualty of rising costs. Greens’ founder Simon Rimmer, a regular on television, announced the closure in a video posted to social media […]
Vegan pasta concept Pastan is scheduled to open its first branch in central Manchester by the end of this month – on the Cross Street site of vegan restaurant Vertigo, which closed down in March. Pastan began life as a lockdown delivery project from Dean Fawcett and Jerome Ibanez, formerly operations director at Bristol-based healthy fast-food […]
Highly rated Middle Eastern vegetarian restaurant Bubala will open a second branch in Soho on Monday 11 July. The original, in Commercial Street, Spitalfields, was opened three years ago by founder Marc Summers and head chef Helen Graham (pictured) to general acclaim – and not just from vegetarians. The current Harden’s guide hails its “Tel Aviv […]
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. […]
The rise of the meat-free burger continues apace, with two hitherto red-blooded burger operations opening specialist vegan outlets in London since the New Year. Honest Burgers, now a sizeable chain with about 40 branches across England, has unveiled V Honest in Garrick Street, Covent Garden, to showcase the popular vegan options it has already developed, […]
Norwich’s plant-based Erpingham House, the UK’s largest vegan restaurant, is to make its debut in the capital next week with a Veganuary residency at Cloud Twelve wellness and lifestyle club in Notting Hill, opening on Monday 11 January. The flagship venue, which has a café, restaurant and bar over three floors of a listed building […]
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 […]
Terre à Terre, Brighton “Still Mecca for vegetarians” – this “creative and superb” Lanes legend provides cooking that’s “refreshingly different to the usual boring veggie dishes” and is arguably “the best non-meat cuisine in the country”. “When I first heard about it, I wasn’t particularly excited, but all aspects of our evening were amazing – […]
