Rainbow Vegetarian Bistro
9 Kings Parade
01223 321551 | Veggie restaurant with a selection of vegan dishes. Also vegan wine and puddings, including ice-cream. Lunch through to evenings. | |
Backstreet Bistro
2 Sturton St
01223 306306 | new and tasty bistro | some bits on the menu, encourage them to keep vegan options available. |
PizzaExpress
7a Jesus Lane
01223 324033
28 St Andrew's Street
01223 361320
Regent St
| Pizzas and salads really. Three restaurants to choose from | They will do any pizza without cheese. The bases are vegan so get creative. |
Anatolia
30 Bridge Street
01223 362372 | Turkish with lots of vegan starters but limited on the main courses. | Stuffed vine leaves, kisir (cracked wheat salad), aubergine dip, hummus. I have starters for my main course. Beware the rice, it contains butter. |
Efes
78 King Street
01223 350491 | Very similar to Anatolia | Essentially the same as above. Beware the rice -butter. |
Yippee Noodle Bar
King St
| Noodle bar | only the udon noodles are vegan, but there are other options amongst the smaller dishes and curries |
Charlie Chan
Regent St
| Fairly upmarket Chinese restaurant | Reportedly their vegetarian set-meal for two is coincidentally vegan. |
Teri Aki
Quayside
| Japanese | lots of choice from the starters - edamame, gyoza, tofu dishes and some mains |
Kymmoy
Mill Rd
| Noodle bar | choice of starters such as veg satay and some main choices. note that the veg thai curry has shrimp paste in. ask them why... i have brought it to the attention of trading standards |
Sweet and Spicy
Mill Rd
| Curry | apparently very good, tasty vegan food available here |
Chez Gerard
Bridge St/Magdelane St
| part of a chain | very willing to do vegan food with a day's notice. apparently it is good |
Tatties
11 Sussex street
01223 323399 | Mostly baked potatoes, but also salads and sandwiches. | There is a vegan ciabatta sandwich listed and they claim many salads are and potatoes can be watch out for cleanliness as they use the butter knife to cut the potatoes, they should clean it for you though. |
Browns
Trumpington St
| Bar and restaurant | Absolutely useless for vegan food. No understanding and no options. |
The Jolly Abbott
Abbotsley
| Pub/restaurant | Have separate veg and non veg kitchens, but little understanding of vegan. Some bad experiences here |
The Maypole
Portugal Place
01223 352999 | Nice, friendly pub with Italian food and cocktails. | Just one pasta dish (pasta with tomato and vegetable sauce). They will happily make a bloody mary without the worcester sauce. |
The Alex
Gwydir St
| Friendly pub | very friendly and helpful and willing to adapt items on the menu such as green veg risotto and tagliatelle with wild mushrooms to be vegan, just ask |
The Clarendon Arms
Clarendon St
| Pub and B&B | Generally at least one vegan option available (sizzling veg with rice - ensure they don't use worcester sauce though), potential for more if you talk to them.. |
King William IV
Heydon
| Pub/restaurant | Won awards for veggie food, good understanding of vegan and always something good to eat |
The Jolly Abbott
Abbotsley
| Pub/restaurant | Have separate veg and non veg kitchens, but little understanding of vegan. Some bad experiences here |
PHO
33a Regent Street
01223 462080 | Called a 'coffee house', but more of an informal restaurant and take-away. | Lists 7 veggie dishes, most of them vegan e.g. fresh vietnamese spring rolls are very good, or try the rice with tofu, cucumber, dried shallots, coriander and soy sauce |
La Raza
Rose Crescent
| Tapas bar | several of the tapas and salads are vegan and tasty, try the pimientos de padron and the crunchy bean salad |
Pret a Manger
Petty Cury
| Sandwiches etc | always seems to have at least one vegan hummus based option, be it a sandwich, wrap or salad. |
Sam Smileys
King's Parade
| Independent sandwich shop | apparently the best hummus and felafel sarnie in town. |
Arjuna
12 Mill Road
01223 364845 | Health/whole food shop with a GMO free policy. Sells lots of vegan 'lunch' items. Also a 'natural health' centre upstairs and a wholesale warehouse nearby. |
Revital
5 Bridge Street
01223 350433 | Faily standard health food shop with a 10% discount to Vegan Society members. Fair selection of vegan lunch-type stuff which they will heat up in a microwave if you want. |
Daily Bread Co-Operative
3 Kilmaine Close
01223 423177 | Warehouse style whole/health food shop and mini cafe. |
Nasreen Dar
20 Histon Road
01223 568013 | Excellent shop selling nearly everything including lots of bags of pulses and fresh vegetable samosas, potato patties, battered aubergines and chillis etc. Very good frozen curries. |
Cho Mee Chinese supermarket
108 Mill Road
01223 354399 | Good range of Chinese, Japanese etc. foods including fresh tofu, spring roll skins, red bean dumplings, mock duck and lots more. |
Maskell's Bakery
78 Akeman Street
01223 355878 | A selection of bread that happens to be vegan including some organic loaves. |
Al:Amin
Mill Rd
| Another shop with exotic fruit and veg, large bags of pulses and also freshly made curries. |
Organic Health
87 Church Rd, Hauxton
| Organic and special diet foods with an alternative therapy room. |