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Plant-based eaters assemble, because there’s a new best vegan restaurant in town.
Time Out’s brand new list of the 15 greatest vegan restaurants in London is now topped by Plates, the only Michelin star vegan restaurant in the UK.
Situated on Old Street, the Shoreditch tasting menu spot only opened last year, but has become the hottest, and greenest, ticket in town. Plates is run by Chef Kirk Haworth (who you might recognise from BBC’s Great British Menu) alongside his sister Keeley.
The £109 tasting menu includes the likes barbecued maitake mushroom with black bean mole, kimchi, aioli and puffed rice, as well as Cornish potatoes with toasted hazelnut and sweet and sour apricot, and caramelised lions mane with blackberries, beetroot, gem lettuce and hibiscus.
Time Out’s five star review of Plates praised its ‘old-world/new-ideas philosophy’ and ‘perfectly arranged bowls of visionary veg’. Read the full review here.
Other restaurants tipped in the list of the best vegan restaurants in London include creative Caribbean dishes at Jam Delish in Angel, Sichuan-style spice at Facing Heaven in Hackney, and sustainable, fermented food at Holy Carrot in Notting Hill. We’ve also given a nod to London’s only vegan cinema, the Ritzy in Brixton, where you can get great Indian-inspired comfort food courtesy of En Root.
Vegan sandwich dealers Coven of Wiches in Walthamstow also made the cut, as do vegan fast food at LD’s Kitchen in Camden metal bar The Black Heart.
Read the full list of the best vegan restaurants in London here.
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