🌱 Four Vegan Friendly Restaurants You Should Visit in London

Am I a vegan? No. Am I a vegetarian? No. However, I really enjoy exploring different cuisines, a vegan meal is always an exciting experience especially when the food arrives in front of you; as I love to see how the chefs substitute meat produce. Often I think we consume too much meat and sometimes we just need a wholesome plant based meal. Veganism is becoming even more popular and trending for non vegans/ vegetarians like me. Actually some restaurants listed below are known to be popular with the general public. Once you see the photos below, it might just convince you to try it! Honestly, it is one of my favourite restaurants to try, I cannot wait to find more and have this list grow!

1. Tibits 

📍 Mayfair | 12-14 Heddon St, Mayfair, London W1B 4DA

This restaurant is a quick dine in type of place, as all you need to do is grab a plate, choose your food then go to the counter, have your plate weighed, pay and order your drinks then dine! It is that simple! 

I went there for lunch, I loved the process of how easy it is and you can choose the quantity of food that you would like to have. There are so many choices and I literally could eat every single dish! I cannot wait to return. As you can see from my photo below, my sister and I had five to six variety of dishes; I think there must have been approximately twenty different types of dishes to select from. 

I will also say this place is inexpensive. I think my meal with the smoothie was just under £20, which I would consider as reasonable for a lunch time meal. I was satisfied with the amount of food I had on my plate.  

2. Vurger 

📍 Camden | 9, Avant Garde Richmix Square, Cygnet St, London E1 6LD

This is a fast food burger restaurant. A small menu but enough to exploit different variety of vegan burgers. Again, another easy order, wait for your buzzer, collect and dine place. Just what you need after walking around Camden. 

I chose a mushroom patty with mac 'n' cheese, my sister chose black bean patty with sweet potato fries. We shared our sides as the portions are very generous. As this is a fast food restaurant, the price is very reasonable. 

The second time we visited Vurger, we went for their limited edition special burger collabed with Gaz Oakley. It was a Caribbean inspired burger; my sister had it in the bun and I had it in a salad box.

3. Mildreds

📍 Soho | 45 Lexington St, Carnaby, London W1F 9AN
📍 King's Cross | 200 Pentonville Rd, Kings Cross, London N1 9JP

I've visited two branches so far, they also have another branch in Camden which I am yet to visit. My first experience was in King's Cross and we had to wait a little while for our table, it was on the weekend and my sister influenced us to go. It were both of our first time to try this place and I was more than happy to wait for our table to try their food. Their menu is simplistic and short which I like, it's on a one sided A4 sheet which is plenty to select from but yet not to leave you baffling undecided of choices; their menu does also rotate dishes around as two separate times I've been the menu has changed slightly. 

The price is also reasonable, I think on average the main was around £10-£15. Bargain I think for a London restaurant!

I had a mushroom pie served with sweet potato fries and minty mushy peas. I would recommend this if you quite like the intense mushroom flavours, the flavours were incredible, puff pastry was thin and crispy - exactly how it should be and I do love my peas so all in all it was a great meal. My sister had their 'mock chicken' dish; I tried some of their mock chicken and it looked and tasted very similar to chicken. It was divine! It was mock chicken coated in breadcrumb, served with sweet potato fries, slaw and a dip. 

My second visit was to the Soho branch, this was mid week and in non-peak hours. Therefore, we didn't have to wait for our table. I really wanted to try their mock katsu chicken dish as I tried Wagamama's vegan version and I would not recommend it. However, this version is definitely recommended, it tasted like the perfect substitute. The mock chicken texture and taste is impeccable, served with black rice and leafy greens; extremely filling and the curry sauce was so good! My sister had a mock chicken burger with sweet potato fries served with a dip. 

4. Farmacy 

📍 Nottinghill | 74 Westbourne Grove, London W2 5SH

The final recommendation is a more sophisticated dining, it is a pretty idyllic restaurant with amazing service! You walk towards the restaurant and you'll see the most amazing greenery covering parts of the exterior, once you're in you're greeted with even more greenery sitting against beautiful wooden features. It all ties in very nicely, the feel you have is very calm and neutral to enjoy your food in.  

This restaurant is medium priced I would say, main dishes were averagely at £15; Starters - £10, cocktails - £10.

The menu selection is more intricate as it is a whole different experience from the other vegan restaurants I've been to; I did not know what to expect to arrive as this place is a finer restaurant than the previous ones. To start off with, drinks - I ordered a iced matcha coconut latte.

For starters we ordered a mezze platter to share; it had pitta bread, aubergines, breadcrumb mushroom balls with a houmous dip. It was different and I really did enjoy it!

Mains - My sister ordered a  earth bowl which contain various greens, proteins and  a sauce. It is a cold dish and I would describe it as a salad essentially. For myself, as we went during dinner hours, I like a hot meal for the evenings, I ordered a mushroom tagliatelle; another mushroom dish, I know! I think you can gather I like mushrooms. Again, this dish was very mushroom intense and I do recommend this. I think this is one of the best tasting tagliatelle dish that I've ever had. 

They did also have a great cocktail selection but I didn't try it. Next time I would definitely have to!

Overall, my favourite of the four are Mildreds and Tibits. I really like their easy dining and simplistic menu. Try these two first if you've never been to a vegan/vegetarian restaurant. I think vegan friendly restaurants really know how to work with flavours, vegetables and meat substitutes to make plant based goods tastes so great! If only I could cook like this I would eat like this daily.


My to try list...

• Tell Your Friends 
  I've found this place on Instagram as it is owned by Lucy and Tiffany Watson. The MIC known Vegans. This is literally the next place that I want to visit. The menu looks lush! 
• Purezza 
  Vegan pizzas?! What else do I need to say. Their 'Couch potato' pizza is the one I want to try! Don't you look at the menu before you visit? I do! 

Let me know your vegan friendly restaurants that you've been to, if you recommend it, let me know! I'd love to hear about it!