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Chez Fred Bournemouth – Vegan Options

March 10, 2017Jade Green VeganLeave a comment

After the Portsmouth Vegan Festival a couple of weekends ago, we visited Matt’s Grandma in the beautiful seaside town of Bournemouth. We absolutely love visiting Bournemouth as not only do we get to spend time with Matt’s lovely Grandma and hang out on the sandy beach, but Bournemouth is also filled with vegan-friendly restaurants, including Cosy Club, Amala and Bournemouth Pizza Co., meaning we’re spoiled for choice when it comes to food options.

On our last visit, we decided to check out Chez Fred as it is Matt’s Grandma’s favourite restaurant / take away. As Chez Fred is a fish and chip restaurant, we were planning on just having a chip buttie; however, when Matt called ahead to ask about their vegan options, we were pleasantly surprised by how well they cater for vegetarians and vegans.

Although the bun isn’t vegan, we were told that the veggie burger patty was, so we ordered that with the salad on the side (Matt of course switched out the salad for mushy peas!). The burger was so flavourful and a little spicy, and went amazingly with the unlimited (yes, you read that right – unlimited) chips! There were also a couple of vegan-friendly sides, so be sure to ask your water/waitress which menu items are suitable for vegans.

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We all had an amazing meal, and it’s so great that we now have yet another vegan-friendly restaurant to visit in Bournemouth. With friendly, helpful staff and delicious food, I know that we will definitely be returning to Chez Fred on our next visit to Bournemouth!

CITY CRUISES LONDON | VEGAN OPTION

February 3, 2017Jade Green VeganLeave a comment

At the start of the year, we had an awesome time celebrating my mum’s birthday on a lunch cruise along The Thames with City Cruises. As the cruise includes a meal, we emailed them beforehand to let them know that we are all vegan and to see if they could offer a vegan option. They were really accommodating and made up a great vegan meal for us: a flavourful vegetable hot pot, accompanied by roast potatoes, carrots and green beans, followed by a fresh fruit salad for dessert.

If, like us, you love boat trips and are looking for a fun way to see London whilst eating a delicious vegan meal, then be sure to book a cruise with City Cruises (and don’t forget to email in advance to let them know you’re vegan)!

PRAGUE VEGAN GUIDE

January 25, 2017Jade Green Vegan4 Comments

At the start of January, Matt and I spent four days in the beautiful city of Prague. The combination of snow, beautiful architecture, christmas markets and an abundance of vegan and vegan-friendly restaurants made it our new favourite city! Whilst exploring the city, we tried out as many vegan eateries as possible and I’m really happy to be able to share them all with you today.

Mama Coffee

Type of food: Cute café with a huge variety of vegan options

What we ate: Soya hot chocolate (amazing!!!), pita bread & hummus, sundried tomato & sesame paste on toast, veggie burger & Ukrainian dumplings

Find out more: https://www.mamacoffee.cz/content/kavarny/

Maitrea

Type of food: Beautiful vegetarian restaurant with lots of vegan options (Matt’s new favourite restaurant in the world!) Be sure to book in advance during peak times as it can get very busy. We didn’t get a chance to try out Lehka Hlava, Maitrea’s sister restaurant, but it looked awesome too!

What we ate: Veganised tempeh bruschetta, vegan cream of split pea, vegan maitrea vegeburger, vegan paella à la barcelona & warm vegan pancake (from the kid’s menu)

Find out more: http://restaurace-maitrea.cz/en_home.htm

Find out more about Lehka Hlava: http://www.lehkahlava.cz/en_home.htm

Plevel

Type of food: Gourmet style vegan food in a nice casual restaurant

What we ate: Chickpea patties with tagliatelle, eggplant rolls filled with chickpea paste & yellow thai curry

Find out more: http://restauraceplevel.cz/en

Dhaba Beas

Type of food: Casual vegetarian Indian food chain, eat in / takeaway buffet with vegan options

What we ate: noodles, rice, curry and an assortment of pastries

Find out more: http://www.beas-dhaba.cz/en/dhaba-belehradska

Loving Hut

Type of food: Fully vegan café chain with veganised favourite foods including traditional Czech food

What we ate: Schnitzel with mashed potato & veggie burger with chips

Find out more: http://www.lovinghut.cz

Creme de la Creme

Type of food: Eat in or take out ice cream parlour with vegan options

What we ate: Vegan chocolate & salted caramel ice cream

Find out more: https://www.cremecreme.cz/en/

Pizza Letna

Type of food: Pizza take away / delivery with vegan options

What we ate: Vegana pizza with mushrooms and red onions

Find out more: http://www.pizzaletna.cz

Radost FX

Type of food: Cool restaurant with vegan options & a night club attached

What we ate: Veganised nachos, smoked burger & soya milkshakes

Find out more: http://www.radostfx.cz/en/

Burrito Loco

Type of food: Take away mexican open 24 hours with a vegan options, making it perfect for late night snacks

What we ate: Nachos with dip

Find out more: http://burritoloco.cz/en/

Hotel U Bar

Although this wasn’t a vegan restaurant, I thought I’d let you guys know about this little gem as it is one of my favourite places we visited in France, and I’m pretty sure we visited at least 3 times!! The rooftop bar has has such a fun vibe and amazing views over Prague so be sure to check it out during your visit!

Find out more: https://www.hoteluprince.com

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I can honestly say that we enjoyed the food at all of these eateries but we of course had our favourites and I’ll be writing more detailed posts about these in the coming weeks, so be sure to look out for those.

My Prague Vegan Diary video will also be going live on my youtube channel tomorrow, so look out for that if you’d like to see more behind the scenes footage of these awesome restaurants.

VEGAN IN BOURNEMOUTH: COSY CLUB

January 13, 2017Jade Green Vegan1 Comment

On Boxing day we visited Matt’s lovely Grandma in Bournemouth and went for a big family meal at an awesome vegan-friendly restaurant: Cosy Club.

Cosy Club has a main menu as well as a vegan menu with lots of options; however Matt and I both decided to go for the vegan breakfast made up of: grilled tomato, field mushroom, falafel, wood-roasted peppers, spinach, fried potatoes, baked beans and toast. As if that wasn’t enough, I also ordered extra hummus and avocado on the side which created the perfect breakfast combo!

If you’re in Bournemouth and are looking for a great, vegan-friendly restaurant, then the Cosy Club is definitely worth a visit.

You can check out details of more vegan & vegan-friendly eateries that I’ve visited in Bournemouth here: https://jadegreenvegan.com/tag/bournemouth/.

VEGAN IN PHUKET: RED DUCK

January 11, 2017Jade Green Vegan1 Comment

If you guys follow me on Instagram, you’ll know that I recently spent 2 weeks in Thailand: the first volunteering at Elephant Nature Park in Chiang Mai and the second exploring Phuket and volunteering at Phuket Elephant Sanctuary.

Volunteering with the elephants was one of the most incredible experiences of my life and I’m excited to be sharing more about that with you guys on the blog in the coming week. In the mean time, you can watch my volunteering ‘week in the life’ at Elephant Nature Park vlog here:

If you have any questions about what it was like to volunteer at the park, please feel free to comment them under this blog post and I’ll be filming a Q&A next week to answer all of your questions :).

Now, back to the purpose of today’s post: I am super excited to tell you all about The Red Duck – an awesome vegan-friendly restaurant we found in Kata, Phuket.

The Red Duck serves delicious Thai food and has a huge variety of vegan options. Everything looked so good that we definitely had eyes bigger than our bellies and decided to order a main dish with rice each, and share some fried noodles too. Oh, and then add a dessert to that!

For main, Maria and I both had the sweet and sour tofu which comes with rice and a variety of veggies and was absolutely delicious. Natalie was a little optimistic about her ability to handle Thai spices and went for the ‘mild to medium’ curry which was super yummy but hot hot hot in English terms! Without us even saying anything, the staff were so incredibly lovely and brought out lots of coconut milk to make it milder, and when they saw Natalie had only eaten half of it brought out an entirely new mild one! How lovely is that?! Finally, the vegetable fried noodles we all shared were a big hit and were definitely my favourite part of the meal!

As if we weren’t full enough from our mains, we all ordered ice-cream for dessert (one of the fruity flavours is vegan – I can’t remember what it’s called but the staff are all super knowledgeable and helpful and the menu is clearly labelled with vegan options) and it was the perfect way to end an awesome meal!

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Look out for more Thailand posts in the next couple of weeks :).

Vegan in Leeds: Pizzanet

January 9, 2017Jade Green VeganLeave a comment

A few weeks ago Matt and I went to Leeds for the weekend and we had an incredible takeaway from Pizzanet which I had to tell you guys about!

Matt ordered the 16″ Thin Vegan Margherita and I went for the 9″ Deep Gourmet Vegan; both pizzas were absolutely delicious and super reasonably priced (we’re talking around £15 total!).

So if you’re in Leeds and are looking for a vegan-friendly pizza takeaway, be sure to check out Pizzanet!

Potato Tomato | Vegan in Whitstable Kent

November 30, 2016Jade Green Vegan2 Comments

Last week, my mum, Poppy, Panda and I visited Potato Tomato – an awesome little 100% vegan pop-up restaurant located in the Whitstable Harbour Markets on the Kent Coast.

Potato Tomato serves a great variety of homemade vegan food, both hot and cold. On top of having a delicious menu, its insanely cute beach hut location, reasonably priced menu and the fact that it’s dog-friendly makes Potato Tomato the perfect place to grab lunch on a beach day out.

My mum and I ordered two main meals to share: the double stack cheese burger and the cornish pie with chips. I’ve never tried a cornish pasty, but according to my mum the cornish pie tasted exactly like a traditional cornish pasty, which explains why Potato Tomato is so popular with vegans and non-vegans alike. During our visit, it was so great to hear people come over who are not vegan and say how much they love the food, a real testament to how creative and flavourful Potato Tomato’s menu is.

The burger was stacked full with delicious ingredients including not one but two burger patties, vegan cheese, onions, lettuce, tomato and of course lots of sauce. I absolutely loved it, so much in fact that I kinda hoped my mum wouldn’t like it so that I could eat her half too but unfortunately for me she agreed that it was amazing!

For dessert we shared a heated chocolate orange brownie which had melted chocolate in the middle making it absolutely heavenly! We loved it so much that we bought four more to take away, as well as a piece of the lemon drizzle cake and a piece of banana, chocolate and nut cake. They were all so delicious and barely lasted a couple of days in our house!

After our visit to Potato Tomato, we spent the day chilling on the beach and walking around Whitstable Harbour Markets where we bought some art and also some veggie dog treats from The Whitstable Dog Company (which is opposite Potato Tomato)!

I vlogged our entire day at Whitstable beach, including our visit to Potato Tomato so if you’d like to see more behind the scenes, you can watch that here:

If you’re planning a trip to the Kent Coast, be sure to check out Potato Tomato for some delicious food, and all of the other awesome businesses in the Whitstable Harbour markets for a great day of beachside shopping!

VEGAN IN MALVERN |GALLERY 36

November 8, 2016Jade Green VeganLeave a comment

Last weekend we had a stall at the West Midlands Vegan Festival for the Jade Green Vegan Compassionate Clothing Line. We had a great weekend meeting lots of lovely people, and it was made even better by the fact that we spent a day with Matt’s mum and dad on the way home as they live fairly near by in Malvern.

Matt’s mum and dad called lots of local restaurants to see if any of their menus could be veganised and Gallery 36 was by far one of the most accommodating. Even though Gallery 36 isn’t a specifically vegetarian/vegan restaurant, they have lots of vegetarian options and were so helpful and really knowledgable in telling us which dishes could be made vegan.

I ordered the Vegetarian Platter (less halloumi and aioli, add extra falafel). The platter had a great variety of veggie dishes – I especially loved the falafel and stuffed vine leaves – and was served with a big rustic baguette making it super filling.

Matt went for the Veggie Breakfast (less the free range egg) – another very easily veganisable dish – and absolutely loved it!

So if you find yourself in Malvern, I’d definitely recommend visiting Gallery 36, and be sure to ask your waiter which dishes can be veganised as there were lots of others our waiter mentioned (including the patatas bravas and the vegetable bean chilli enchiladas)!

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If you’d like to watch a vlog of our weekend at the festival and in Malvern, you can check that out here:

THE TIPSY BLACK SHEEP | VEGAN IN BECKENHAM

November 7, 2016Jade Green VeganLeave a comment

The Tipsy Black Sheep is a veggie catering company run by two lovely girls: Hayley and Ruth. They currently have a pop-up shop in Beckenham and I was so excited to have the opportunity to check it out last week.

Hayley and Ruth were so kind and welcoming, and it was really lovely to meet two people who are so genuinely passionate about what they do. Their creative menu has such a great variety of options and is so reasonably priced, meaning we definitely had a difficult time when deciding what to order.

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After much deliberation, I decided to order the Red Lentil Burger with coleslaw and sweet potato chips on the side. The burger patty was bursting with flavour and was accompanied by the perfect combination of delicious toppings.

My mum ordered the Yellow Lentil Curry with green rice and was a big fan. She (reluctantly) let me try a little bit and I agreed that it was absolutely delicious.

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Both the chilli-me-sofly chocolate brownie and the banana cake looked amazing so we decided to order them both and share. Topped with caramel sauce, they were both so sweet, delicious and moist. My mum said that they are the best vegan cakes she’s ever had, and in fact, we loved them so much that my mum decided to buy another 2 of each to take away with us!

The warm and friendly atmosphere in the shop, coupled with the amazing food makes The Tipsy Black Sheep pop-up a must visit! So, if you find yourself near Beckenham make sure to check it out – I’m sure you’ll love it just as much as we did!

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Update: unfortunately the pop-up shop has now closed but The Tipsy Black Sheep still do private catering and will soon be offering a delivery service (which I’m super excited about). You can read more about that here: http://www.thetipsyblacksheep.com/catering-menu/

VEGAN USA GUIDE | LA, SAN FRANCISCO, SAN DIEGO & LAS VEGAS

September 29, 2016Jade Green Vegan1 Comment

Hey everyone!

After just over two weeks travelling around the USA, I am now back in the UK and am finally getting back to my normal routine after losing almost a week to jet lag, seriously. I’d like to say that was an exaggeration but unfortunately it isn’t; for almost an entire week I was practically nocturnal – going to bed at 6am and waking up at 3pm!!

Anyway, now that I’m back home (and awake in daylight hours!) I’ve been reminiscing about all of the fun things that we did and all of the delicious vegan food we ate, and there certainly was a lot of it. We started our trip in LA, then we headed to San Francisco, then to San Diego and finally Las Vegas! I loved every one of these cities in a different way and all of them had an amazing vegan food scene (we’re talking everything from deliciously healthy cafes to late night pizza deliveries).

As always, I wanted to take you all along with me as much as possible, so I vlogged our entire trip, posted restaurant reviews, and also instagramed a lot of our #veganfoodporn! However, there were also lots of eateries we ate at that I didn’t get a chance to share with you guys, so I thought I’d create this blog post to collate all of my vlogs and restaurant reviews from our trip, as well as adding in some of the other eateries we loved.

If you guys are from the US/travelling to the US/just curious about what the US has to offer, then I hope you find this post useful :).

ps – if you have a favourite vegan friendly eatery in any of these locations, be sure to comment it down below!