LONDON’S BEST VEGAN RESTAURANTS
- AG
- Aug 3
- 3 min read
Updated: Aug 15
The Capital’s Best Meat-Free Restaurants as Nominated by YOU in the Time Well Spent Awards
London is the easiest capital to swerve meat, with more than 400 fully vegan establishments serving up delicious alternatives.
You have nominated the Big Smoke’s ultimate destinations for exceptional, plant-based and vegan menus for this year’s Time Well Spent Awards.
Vote now for your ultimate winner, which will be crowned this August.
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Mildreds
London’s plant-based pioneers have been serving exceptional, seasonal vegan dishes since 1988 at their London restaurants.
Covering Soho, Covent Garden, King’s Cross, Victoria and Camden, Mildreds is quirky, stylish and delicious.
Their inventive menu includes pan-fried Kimchi Gyoza with a sweet and spicy sesame sauce, and a dreamy coconut curry with sweet potato pilau, cashew sev and pineapple sambol.
Mildreds, Multiple Locations across London
Holy Carrot
Notting Hill’s restaurant and cocktail bar combines creative, vegetable-forward dining, a chic and sophisticated ambiance, and a commitment to low waste and sustainability.
The buzzy neighbourhood restaurant uses ferments, open fire cooking and the freshest, seasonable produce to prove that sustainable dining can be flavoursome and exciting.
Expect to lick the plates after Oyster Mushroom and Roasted Koji Mole, Almond Tostada or Grilled Smoked Watermelon with Cashew Cream and Ponzu.
Holy Carrot, 156 Portobello Rd, London W11 2EB
Ottolenghi
Ottolenghi creates vibrant and colourful, vegan comfort food, rooted in Middle Eastern and Mediterranean traditions, with global influences.
Their commitment to championing vegetables and unusual ingredients has cemented Ottolenghi as one of the capital’s premier plant-based destinations, with delis and restaurants across London.
Expect diverse and delicious dishes like fried harissa mackerel buns with chimichurri, or Japanese Lentil curry, and roasted aubergines and butter beans in chilli pesto.
Ottolenghi, Multiple Locations across London
Mallow
These luxurious and 100% plant-based restaurants in Borough Market and Canary Wharf are brought to you from the team behind Mildreds.
Serving seasonal, sustainable food, inspired by cuisines from all over the world, their aim is minimal waste, with ingredients sourced from small businesses, including those on their doorstep.
Expect killer brunches, like their tiramisu pancakes and the Mallow Full English; dreamy mains like wild mushroom ravioli, leek fricassee, and sage butter, and their stand out roast aubergine, with tahini yoghurt, and sour cherry harissa.
Mildreds, Multiple Locations across London
Facing Heaven
Behind unassuming Hackney doors, you will find a hipster Sichuanese restaurant with retro 80s interiors, wowing Londoners with its spicy Cantonese, Yunnan and Shaanxi fusions.
Expect amazing plant-based alternatives to beef jerky and prawn crackers, as well as vibrant dishes like Chonqing Cauliflower and chilli dumplings.
Facing Heaven, 1a Bayford St, London E8 3SE
Tendril
“Mostly vegan” because chef and founder Rishim Sachdeva uses the occasional bit of cheese, this stylish Mayfair restaurant has been wowing the capital with its plant-based creations.
The Michelin Guide restaurant serves diverse sharing plates and set menus with global influences, eschewing heavily processed fake mat and ingredients and putting brilliant veggies in the spotlight.
Expect dishes like sliced beetroot, blue corn tostada, apple and lemon aioli or charred aubergine fattoush, grilled courgettes and tahini.
Tendril, 5 Princes St, London W1B 2LQ
Buhler & Co
This light and airy vegan brunch, lunch and coffee shop serves imaginative dishes inspired by dishes around the world.
Highlights include their legendary vegan fry up, with Indian spiced dhal fritter, fried egg, halloumi, garlic butter greens, and portobello mushroom or the dreamy apple crumble French Toast, with home made brioche.
Buhler & Co, 8 Chingford Rd, London E17 4PJ
En Root
Exceptional Indian food, without the meat or heaviness and with a huge emphasis on nutrition and plant-based power, En Root is something special.
Their hearty, home cooked dishes have become so popular, they have expanded across Clapham, Peckham and Brixton.
Expect Indian twists on the Buddha Bowl, oyster mushroom Rogan Josh, gluten free (Dosa) pancakes, and deeply sexy Falafel Shawarma Kebab.
En Root, Multiple Locations across London
Black Cat Cafe
This purr-fest vegan brunch and lunch spot is the cat that got the (dairy-free) cream.
The buzzy and welcoming cafe serves fry-ups, pies, salads, soups and deep-filled sarnies, using the ultimate, meat-free alternatives.
And they’re committed to veganism in every aspect of their offering - as well as the food, their cleaning products and materials are all 100% plant-based, and they support causes and businesses that protect animal rights.
Black Cat Café, 76 Clarence Road, E5 8HB
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