Eating out raw in London
May 16th, 2008
Less than one year ago, there was only one place to eat out raw in London - VitaOrganic, now there are five and I’ve not been to two of them yet!
- inSpiral, 250 Camden High Street, Camden. Probably my favourite for it’s relaxed atmosphere, great music, and good selection of salads, raw cakes and chocolates and smoothies. Sunday evening is Sunday Harmonies with live acoustic music and Tuesday evening is New Horizons - talks and demos featuring lots of raw food. inSpiral also serve cooked vegetarian food and alcohol, so a great place to go with non-raw friends. Update: Food is 100% organic.
- VitaOrganic, 74 Wardour Street, Soho. A vegan restaurant with a raw menu with some gourmet raw dishes, juices and smoothies and raw cakes.
- SAF, 152-154 Curtain Road, Shoreditch. I’ve not been here yet, although I understand it is a high class restaurant with prices to match (around £30 per person!) Again, they serve some cooked vegan food and alcohol so suitable for taking non-raw friends.
- Dragonfly, 24 Highgate High Street, Highgate. I’ve only just found out about this place so I’ve not been yet. It’s a wholefood shop with a cafe with a raw three course set menu everyday. It sounds like a great little place, I’ll be checking this out soon. Update: We went here on Sunday - the avocado, tarragon and ginger soup was amazing but the main course had too many sprouts for my liking - the falafels were made from sprouts, the pate was made from sprouts and the plate was full of them, but it all tasted good and the slices of avocado were ripe. Unfortunately they had run out of desert. 2nd Update: I just spoke to a director of Dragonfly - they’ve updated their menus and now have 14 raw dishes, 100% organic, and 80% of all the food they serve is raw. They will also be running a raw cafe at Galstonbury festival in the Greenfield.
- Bonningtons, 11 Vauxhall Grove, Vauxhall. Most of the time this is a vegetarian cafe, with vegan Thursdays, but on the second, fourth and fifth Sunday of each month, it becomes a raw cafe. The food is delicious, gourmet raw food, with wonderful cakes and deserts. Highly recommended.
Enjoy! And if you know anywhere I’ve missed, please let me know…
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4 Comments Add your own
1. Raw Food Ideas | May 20th, 2008 at 1:04 am
Thanks for the heads up Rob. I saw a Time Out article on SAF recently and it got pretty good reviews. Good to see the raw message spreading through London.
2. aj | June 11th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
SAF is a gorgeous experience.
i’ve been twice and already im trying to work out when can I go again. I’m a devoted fan.
I ate a 3 course meal and left feeling elated, satisfied without being full. Everything was beyond beautiful, exciting and delicious.
I think it is definietly worth the money and the starters and desserts are reasonably priced.
its a sexy joint too. Great to see a Vegan restaurant sitting comfortably in Shoreditch, exploding the image of Vegan food as being just hippy stodge!
go!!!
;O>
3. Alice | June 12th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
I went to SAF for the first time this week.
It was a very enlightening experience. I’m not a raw vegan yet, and I was very impressed by the presentation and design of the food and the restraunt which clearly felt ‘very trendy’ and fitted right in with the ‘hoxtenites’.
I had sushi and enchilades that were delicious and would well recommend it! I left feeling energised and ready for a new day.
4. amy | July 15th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
I went to Saf last week with my (very) non-raw father. The starters were amazing, the drinks were amazing, the main (lasagne) was amazing, and the apple cheesecake with aple sorbet was amazing. I have never eaten better food in my life. It was £60 for the both including the tip butI can’t wait to go again.
My father couldn’t understand why he couldn’t eat any more but his stomach wasn’t ‘full’
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