The taco’s rise to prominence in London continues, with Club Mexicana moving permanently into the Haggerston cocktail bar Pamela on January 17. Club Mexicana founder Meriel Armitage has pioneered a vegan take on taco classics, testing the market as a street-food vendor with Kerb and Street Feast. Two of the best-reviewed London restaurant openings in […]

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It’s the vaunted Northern Powerhouse in action: Bundobust, an Indian veggie street food and craft beer concept that launched in Leeds two years ago, has crossed the Pennines to Manchester. The new branch is significantly bigger than the Leeds original, and opens on December 14 near another new arrival, Shoryu Ramen, in the fast-growing Piccadilly Gardens food hub […]

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A Manchester record shop that morphed into a prizewinning vegan junk food café has had to transfer to bigger premises to cope with its popularity. Dom Moss’s V Revolution, now re-branded as V Rev, opened on Monday in Edge Street, a few minutes’ walk from its previous perch in the Northern Quarter. Moss launched the […]

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Highly regarded vegetarian restaurant The Gate is opening a new branch in Seymour Place, Marylebone, on December 1. The original Gate opened in Hammersmith 27 years ago, and has earned praise from the Harden’s Survey for “serious, thoughtful and imaginative” veggie cooking. A second venue was added in Islington in 2012. Founders Michael and Adrian Daniel set out […]

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