THOUSANDS of people are taking part in Veganuary this month. If you’re one of them, or you’re a full-time vegan, here’s a guide to Bournemouth’s vegan and vegan-friendly restaurants.
Café Thrive
Cafe Thrive on Richmond Hill, which has a sister restaurant in Southampton, may have only opened its doors in November but it's already proving popular. Diners can enjoy brunch, lunch and dinner as well as a host of delicious treats including homemade cakes to take away.
Our yummy Triple Chocolate Cookies, for when double chocolate just isn't enough! #allthechocolate #veganbaking #veganbournemouth #Veganuary #VegansOfInstagram #Veganuary2019 pic.twitter.com/UHn1ooyALw
— Cafe Thrive Bournemouth (@CafeThriveBomo) January 16, 2019
Offerings include a breakfast muffin which is served all day featuring tofu ‘egg’, meat-free sausage and dairy free cheese, a Mediterranean cashew ‘cheese’ sandwich, jackfruit ‘fish’ and chips, plus burgers and salad bowls. Don’t forget space for pudding, as there's ‘ice cream’ sundaes, waffles and brownie bowls on offer.
Mad Cucumber
Situated in The Triangle, Mad Cucumber promises to make all its dishes by hand using mainly local, seasonal and organic ingredients.
@MadCucumberUK very good cake. Good recommendation. pic.twitter.com/JAFL5fjaKh
— Vanilla Black (@vanillablack1) July 1, 2017
Open six days a week for breakfast, lunch and dinner (apart from Mondays when it opens at 12pm), visitors can tuck into dishes such as a breakfast burrito with refried veggie mash and avocado, a vegan breakfast with polenta, spinach, mushrooms, vegan sausage and beans, mushroom stroganoff, three bean chilli or curry. There’s also a daily specials menu, too, plus a range of cakes and other treats to satisfy your sweet-tooth.
Twelve Eatery
This organic plant-based restaurant, juice and cocktail bar opened in a former chicken shop in The Triangle in November. Owners Dalton Mello and Greg Rush, who both worked in restaurants in London, spent more than 12 months bringing the eatery to Bournemouth which takes plant-based dining to another level.
Dishes include salt baked smoked celeriac, tagliatelle carbonara made with smoked tofu, cashew béchamel and coconut parmesan, as well as feijoada - a black bean stew with smoked seitan sausage, pulled jackfruit and mushrooms.
Urban Reef and Urban Beach
Boscombe's Urban Reef and Urban Beach restaurants are offering a host of 'plant-powered' dishes to see people through January. Diners just have to look for the PP symbol on the menu.
Dishes include a mango and black bean wrap, a burger made using brown rice, quinoa, mushroom, black beans and oats, a pumpkin and tofu curry and a fig and apricot gooey oat slice served warm with Purbeck lemon jazz sorbet. There's even a vegan-friendly sharing plate featuring fennel marinated carrots, candy beetroot, hazelnut hummus, pickled mushrooms, marinated olives & roasted red peppers, scrambled tofu, spiced chickpeas and sourdough (phew).
Kind Kitchen Bournemouth
Kind Kitchen Bournemouth is run by the former owners of Sweet Greens which operated in Charminster. Their latest venture only opened earlier this month in the former home of Sukha Lounge in Christchurch Road in Boscombe.
Inside you'll find sandwiches, Buddha bowls, breakfast bowls, cakes, juices smoothies and hot drinks including chai latte, turmeric latte, cacao shroom latte, maca latte, matcha latte and rose latte made using almond, coconut and oat milks. They are open six days a week and closed on Tuesdays.
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