Just wondering if there are any restaurants that have a good reputation for doing good food that cater pretty well to vegetarian and vegan tastes?

I'm not vegetarian myself, but know quite a lot of people who are, (my brother is a vegan) which makes an extra thing to take into account when arranging meals out...

So, any recommendations? I seem to remember seeing a veggie cafe in the centre of town near the winter gardens... Though a place that does meat too won't go amiss...

Yeah I know the place near the winter gardens... Olive gardens or grove or something olivey hehe!

Blue Moon Cafe next to the Cathedral does the bestest vegan food. Kum Quat Mae down Ecclesfield Road (i think) is meant to be very good too.

Thanks for the recommendations.

I guess the difficulty here is in finding a place that can cater equally well to both veg and non-veg people. Especially since I don't want to separate my friends by food preferences...

Kumquaet Mae (spelling..) is on abbeydale road, next to the spar, and the pizza hut. Have read many reviews, meant to be really good food.
mimi

Neither of us are vegetarian, but we have dined at Kumquat Mae several times because the food and atmosphere is just so.

I have never tried it, but once a month they have a Japanese or special menu that comes highly recommended also.

If you do go to Kumquat Mae, then mention the forum!

I am a vegan and have been to all of those places.

They all do vegan dishes, it depends what you're after really. If you want a quick meal (lunch) then Blue Moon or Olive Garden is a good bet. Olive Garden isn't as big as Blue Moon so may be busy.

For an evening meal Kumquat Mae is great.

Blue Moon is impossibly full at peak times, but went yesterday for the third time, not too full as it was about 2pm. Hommity pie...yummity...

Actually, the name Kumquat Mae sounds really interesting... is it a chinese restaurant?

Thanks for all ther recommendations, people.

But as I said, I'd like to have a place I could take veggie and non veggie people... a normal restaurant that does very good vegetarian food, without having to "cobble something together"... Having said that, I think I'll probably have a go at Kumquat Mae anyway....

Kumquat Mae has alot of different food and the menu changes. All the food is fresh unlike alot of places, the humous dip that came with the started i had is great compared to shop ones

Kumquat Mae is fantastic - but make sure you're hungry if you decide to order more than one course, they don't stint on their portions!! I'm not a vegan myself, but I'm reliably informed that the Bah Nah Thai restaurant in Broomhill will provide Vegan alternatives to a lot of their dishes if you ring them in advance, which means that the meat eaters don't lose out and everyones happy! (Hopefully!) x

p.s. another good thing about Kumquat Mae is that you can take your own booze! (-:

There is a restaurant somewhere along West Street which I keep passing on the tram, can't remember what it is called but the sign on the window says that vegan and veggies are welcome, which would suggest that they also do meat dishes. It looks like it may be a South American restaurant but I am not sure.

need a decent veggie restraunt for a week next tuesday...any ideas???

kum quat mai - near the spar on abbydale road.

Originally posted by Nanimo
Thanks for the recommendations.

I guess the difficulty here is in finding a place that can cater equally well to both veg and non-veg people. Especially since I don't want to separate my friends by food preferences...

If the food is good, the food is good, it shouldn't make a difference whether it has meat in it. So go to Kumquat Mae and tell your meat eating friends to shut up, eat and enjoy!

Kumquat Mae is the way forward. And if the people who eat meat miss it that much there's Chilli Chicken across the road.
I'm sure they won't mind you popping over inbetween courses.

The Fat Cat down by Kellham Island is great for veggie, vegan, gluten-free and always has meat options too. It's not a posh place but the beer's great and the atmosphere's always good. There's a website if you google.

I'm veggie, but I like plently of fat and sugar in my food and lots of it, I really can't be doing with all this healthy stuff.. I love the Olive Garden and the Blue Moon Cafe, but was disappointed with Kum Quat May - I vaguely remember small portions and a general feeling of having wasted my money, but obviously this is just my opinion and lots of the other people who answered you feel quite differently. Barring steak and burger joints, I usually find that most placed have adequate veggie choices. For something less formal but totally scrumptious - veggie or not - try the Peacock at Owler Bar, Its a pub but the food is superb!:thumbsup:

I'd heartily recommend Blue Moon. Used to live next door to the owners and they're top people (sorry about the Dyson again!!)

Hi. Can someone suggest a really good restaurant that serves a good selection of veggie and chicken/fish dishes? I have heard the Garrison Hotel is nice in Hillsborough, any thoughts?

Might Help CLICK (http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9619&highlight=restaurant)

Can't believe you've had so few replies... Try Kitos in Woodseats, Alaturka on London Road (my favourite - great staff too), The Mediterranean Sharrow Vale and the Siam InterThai on London Road

Cheers for that, is Alaturka a Turkish restaurant, it sounds it. What type of food do they do and what is the average meal cost?

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Alaturka is Turkish yes, and they have a great selection of both meat and vegetarian dishes. Not only do they have a range of veggie main coiurses, but they are also happy to do any starter as a main course if you ask. The staff are really friendly, the foods really good and the atmosphere is great. I also went with a large group of freinds for my birthday and there were no long waits for food and we even got some free wine.

Vegetarian / Vegan friendly eateries in the region:

V = exclusively vegetarian. Soy = soya milk available. NS = non smoking. NSA= non smoking area. DT = disabled toilet

Kumquat Mae 353 Abbeydale Road, Sheffield S7 1 FS. Tel: 0114 2501076 open wed-sat from 6pm plus (bookings only) thurs, fri and Sunday from 12 pm. Byo wine. V. Soy. NSA.

Blue Moon Cafe 2 St James Street, Sheffield S1 1EU (next to the Anglican Cathedral). Tel: 0114 2763443 open mon-sat 7am-8pm. licensed. Seating 50-60 plus 2 small private dining rooms. V. Soy. NS. DT

Airy Fairy 239 London Road, Sheffield S2 4NF Tel: 0114 2492090 open Mon-Tue 11-4, Wed-Fri 11-6, Sat 11-5 V. Soy.

Heeley City Farm Café 258 0244 V. S. DT. Vegan option always available.

Café Euro 72 John St S2. Ethical, organic café. Soya milk. Non-dairy
spread. 273 8553.

The Bohemian 53 Chesterfield Road (Heeley bottom) S2 tel 0114 2557797. Vegan food always available. www.thebohemian.co.uk

Zooby’s café in the Winter Gardens has vegan snacks and cakes.

The Fat Cat (public house) 23 Alma Street, Sheffield S3 8SA (next to Kelham Island Museum) Tel: 0114 2494801 food served every day 12-2.30. mon-fri 6-7.30. NSA.

Tin Po Dragon Cafe (Chinese) London Road, Sheffield S2 4LT Tel: 0114
2501070/07957 158854 open mon, tues, thurs, fri, sat, sun 12-10pm, wed 6-10pm. byo wine NS.

The Forum 127-129 Devonshire Street, Sheffield S3 7SB Tel: 0114 2720569 food served mon-sat 12-8, snacks till late, Sunday lunchtime. Licensed. NSA in day. DT. S.

Sheiks Restaurant (Lebanese & middle eastern) 274 Glossop Road, Sheffield S10 2HS Tel:0114 2750555 open 7 days a week from 6pm. licensed.

Nirmals Indian Restaurant 189-193 Glossop Road, Sheffield S10 2GW Tel: 0114 2724054 open 7 days a week lunch and evenings, except Sunday lunchtime. Licensed.

The Showroom Cafe/Bar 7 Paternoster Row, Sheffield S1 2BX tel; 0114 249 5479 food served 7 days a week 12-9. Licensed. NSA in cafe. DT.

The UK Mama African Restaurant 257 Fulwood Road, Broomhill, Sheffield S10 3BD Tel: 0114 2687807/07957546497 www.ukmama.co.uk open 7 days a week lunch and evenings. Sunday lunch bookings only. Licensed. NSA. DT.

Kashmir Curry Centre 121-125 Spital Hill, Sheffield S4 7LD Tel: 0114 2726253 open Mon-Sat evenings from 5pm ‘til midnight. NSA.

Bilash Tandoori House, 347 Sharrow Vale Rd, Hunters Bar, S11, Tel: 2661746. It is a takeaway, but has a separate vegetarian menu - a lot of which is vegan.

Green Edge Café, Nether Edge, opposite Zeds, open weekday lunchtimes,
serving Mediterranean vegetarian food. Vegan options available.

Cafe 22A, Norfolk Row. A most welcoming café. Vegan options include
stir-frys, hot chocolate, cakes, often the soup of the day etc.

Café Lilac, Healthy Living Centre, 18 Upperthorpe 270 2042. Open weekdays.

Endcliffe Park café Soya milk and one or two vegan options! Excellent soya cappuccino!

Forge Dam café serves vegan veggieburgers (cooked separately)

World Peace Café Hunters Bar (former Hunter House Hotel) – Buddhist Centre – soya milk and variability in vegan options. Tel: 266 1142.

A few places out of town worth visiting:

Caudwell’s Country Parlour Caudwell Mill Craft Centre, Rowsley, Derbyshire DE4 2EB Tel: 01629 733185 open 7 days a week in daytime from 10am. V.Soy. NS. DT.

Longlands Eating House Main Road, Hathersage, Hope Valley, Derbyshire S32 1BB (above Longlands Climbing Shop) NSA.

Natural Choice Health Food Shop & Vegetarian Restaurant 5 Long Shambles, Chesterfield Tel: 01246 558550 food served mon-sat 9-4.30. V. Soy. NS.

Eating Whole Vegetarian & Vegan Restaurant 25 Copley Road, Doncaster DN1 2PE Tel: 01302 738730 open mon-sat 9-4.00. thurs, fri, sat from7.30. Licensed. V. Soy.

Scarthin Books Cafe The Promenade, Scarthin, Cromford, Derbyshire DE4 3QF Tel: 01629 823272 www.scarthinbooks.demon.co.uk cafe open mon-sat
10-5.30, sun 12-5.30. V. Soy. NS.

Crown Yard Kitchen Crown Yard, Wirksworth, nr Matlock, Derbyshire DE4 4ET Tel: 01629 822020 open 7 days a week in daytime and fri & sat evenings 7-8.30 closed for 2 weeks in jan. Licensed.

The Fieldgate Centre Mill Field Road, Fishlake, Doncaster 01302 846 293 www.fieldgatecentre.org Organic café and wholefoods. ALL VEGAN! B&B &campsite.

Exodus & De Light restaurant & shop, 85 Laughton Road, Dinnington. Vegan options always available. Phone 01909 518 333.

WOW is a café in Holmfirth (behind Your Nuts wholefood shop) which is organic and has vegan choices. See www.wowfoods.co.uk. 01484 682 112.

Organic Heaven, 4 Theatre Yard, off Low Pavement, Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Open daily 9.30-4.30pm (Weds 1pm). Tel: 01246 - 224666 or 0845 2235453(local rate). info@organicheaven.org.uk www.organicheaven.org.uk Wholefood shop with deli (mostly vegan) "an exciting selection of tasty, wholesome vegetarian snacks to take-away".

the bohemian is good, they do vegetarian, vegan and fish meals :)

Hey guys,

I'm trying to find out about the best vegan places to eat in Sheffield, there is some really good info in this thread but some of it is from a few years ago now, the blue moon cafe and the olive garden are sounding the best :)
Is this still the case, any new places or anything?

Thanks guys :mrgreen:

Hey guys,

I'm trying to find out about the best vegan places to eat in Sheffield, there is some really good info in this thread but some of it is from a few years ago now, the blue moon cafe and the olive garden are sounding the best :)
Is this still the case, any new places or anything?

Thanks guys :mrgreen:

The long list I posted above is still current as far as I know, but note the Olive Garden closed a few years ago now. I heard there's a veggie cafe and health centre in Beighton called the Lifestyle Cafe, and there's the New Roots Cafe, 86 Spital Hill, Sheffield S4 7LG. 270 0972. Do you know of any places I can add to my list?

This topic was also covered here:
http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?p=3110571

I really like kum-quat-mae. Must go again soon, and they always have a vegan selection too!

The olive garden has closed but the Blue Moon is still going strong and is really great if not particularly cheap

I heard there's a veggie cafe and health centre in Beighton called the Lifestyle Cafe.

So I made a trip to Beighton yesterday and found the Lifestyle Cafe where I had a soya Cappuchino on a comfy sofa. It's a nice space at the back of a "unique centre for complementary therapies and community initiatives". They run classes like Knit & Natter, Back Pain & Migraine Clinic, Painting, Meditation, Fitness, Children's Yoga, Pilates and lots more.

Beighton Lifestyle Centre
High St
Beighton
S20 1HE
2132160 http://www.lifestylebeighton.com

So I made a trip to Beighton yesterday and found the Lifestyle Cafe where I had a soya Cappuchino on a comfy sofa. It's a nice space at the back of a "unique centre for complementary therapies and community initiatives". They run classes like Knit & Natter, Back Pain & Migraine Clinic, Painting, Meditation, Fitness, Children's Yoga, Pilates and lots more.

Beighton Lifestyle Centre
High St
Beighton
S20 1HE
2132160 http://www.lifestylebeighton.com

Oh, it's pilates, is it? I must have misread their website.
No wonder they looked at me funny the other day when I turned up on their doorstep with a eyepatch, a wooden leg and a parrot on my shoulder.

I had a soya Cappuchino

Bleeuugh !

That sounds horrible.

Oh, it's pilates, is it? I must have misread their website.
No wonder they looked at me funny the other day when I turned up on their doorstep with a eyepatch, a wooden leg and a parrot on my shoulder.

Quite right. Who the hell goes around with a wooden leg on their shoulder.

the bohemian is good, they do vegetarian, vegan and fish meals :)

I went to The Bohemian recently, with a group of friends, and the food was just fantastic. I had a vegetarian goulash, with chick peas and mushrooms, served on cous cous, and it was delicious. Another friend had a feta filo parcel, which was nice, all chees-y and tomato-ey. Another couple of friends had the fish dishes, (one of which was pollock) they looked really nice, but, as a non-meat eater I wasn't enticed!

The menu is substantial, and varied, and the desserts are fab, too. I had pineapple and ginger cake (MMM-mmmm).

I don't think the Beighton cafe is vegetarian as such, but it does prominently feature veggie stuff on the menu.

i used to be a veggie but ate vegan mostly cos i had a vegan girlfriend. i have never really liked the blue moon cafe, food always tasted a bit bland to me. problem with specialist veggie places is that good intentions don't magically turn into good food! lebanese restaurants generally have some good vegan options, you could try Sheiks (i think its called) on West St.

I had pineapple and ginger cake (MMM-mmmm).

mmmm yeah thats my favourite one!!! either that or the banana and coconut, hard to believe they're all vegan tho!:o:love:

So if you (or someone with you) wants veggie food in a restaurant in the city centre in the evening, the choices are extremely limited. It would still seem to be just the veggie options in the usual indian, italian and chinese places plus the odd place with a bit more choice (such as Sheik's).

A decent veggie-friendly restaurant in the city centre must be a viable option for an entrepreneur out there surely? Non-veggies eat this kind of stuff too (unless they eat dead flesh at every meal and never eat veg) and they often want to eat out with their veggie mates.

The long list I posted above is still current as far as I know, but note the Olive Garden closed a few years ago now. I heard there's a veggie cafe and health centre in Beighton called the Lifestyle Cafe, and there's the New Roots Cafe, 86 Spital Hill, Sheffield S4 7LG. 270 0972. Do you know of any places I can add to my list?



Yeah thanks for compiling the list, its very handy :thumbsup: I was just wondering what places people recommended, an I dont know of any more places, I dont know sheffield very well... even not knowing that one of the places has been closed for years! lol

Unfortunately I think that the fieldgate centre in donny which you also have on your list as since closed aswell :(

Thanks for all the replies!

So if you (or someone with you) wants veggie food in a restaurant in the city centre in the evening, the choices are extremely limited. It would still seem to be just the veggie options in the usual indian, italian and chinese places plus the odd place with a bit more choice (such as Sheik's).

A decent veggie-friendly restaurant in the city centre must be a viable option for an entrepreneur out there surely? Non-veggies eat this kind of stuff too (unless they eat dead flesh at every meal and never eat veg) and they often want to eat out with their veggie mates.

I'm trying to find a city centre restaurant with vegan options... and I can't seem to find any. I've been ringing places but the staff always seem really unsure, so I don't want to risk going there and there being nothing for him to eat. It's happened before that we've been told there are vegan options only to find none when we get there....

I would cook myself only there'll be at least 7 of us and it's meant to be a treat for me ;)

edit - que tal on west street do lots of vegan options apparently!

I've booked at a number of restaurants before, and most are usually very good if you say you'd like to book but will have a vegan in the party. They usually come up with something half-decent if it's for a group.

I've had good vegan dishes recently at East One, Sheiks, Wagamama, Las Iguanas and the Showroom. None of these restaurants are specifically aimed at vegetarians/vegans, so acceptable places to take omnivores wanting 'normal' food, though chances are when the food arrives they'll peer at your dish going "ooh, that looks interesting, wish I'd ordered that" (that's what seems to happen to me at group meals, anyway!).

I haven't tried these yet, but I also noticed Que Tal has a vegan section on the menu, also Pizza Express will make vegan pizza if you ask (the bases and tomato sauce are vegan and they make the pizzas up from fresh so can leave the cheese off vegetarian ones).

Platillos, the tapas place in Leopold square does a good selection of vegetarian tapas, as well as meat and fish.Lovely place too, not cheap but the food is really good.

I'd also recommend the Bohemian on Chesterfield rd mentioned above, they only do vegetarian,vegan and fish dishes, delicious food food and great value especially if you take your own wine.

There is a new Veggie Cafe in Matlock. The Green Way Cafe.

"Home Made, Delicious, Healthy Vegetarian Meals & Cakes made using Fair-Trade, Organic, Locally Sourced and Seasonal Ingredients"

It's over the bridge that goes to Matlock Bath, near the new Bus Station/Sainsburys. At 3 Snitterton Rd, opp Royal Bank of Scotland.

http://www.greenwaycafe.co.uk

We went yesterday, soup, chocolate cake, coffee all very nice. Thay have full meals but we were saving ourselves for a big slice of cake. Opens 10-5pm I think.

the restaurants " the ferme de achene" of Ciney

very best

Love Blue Moon and have done for a long time, can't beat Zoobies (though dunno if you call it a cafe or not) loads of different things and the veggie sausages are ace! not tried olive agrden yet though.. hmm, anyone else?

the restaurants " the ferme de achene" of Ciney

very best

Isn't that in Belgium!!!!

Love Blue Moon and have done for a long time, can't beat Zoobies (though dunno if you call it a cafe or not) loads of different things and the veggie sausages are ace! not tried olive agrden yet though.. hmm, anyone else?

the olive garden closed about two years ago so you've missed that boat...

Bilash Tandoor House
347 Sharrow Vale Rd
Sheffield
S11 8ZG

TEL: 0114 2661746

This is a great place for Vegetarians. They have a whole menu dedicated to the cause. Try it.

Bilash Tandoor House
347 Sharrow Vale Rd
Sheffield
S11 8ZG

TEL: 0114 2661746

This is a great place for Vegetarians. They have a whole menu dedicated to the cause. Try it.

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Totally agree with the above choice. It is the only place I know to have such an exhaustive vege menu. I would recommend aloo chop, aloo gobi with garlic naan! Yum!!! :)

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Totally agree with the above choice. It is the only place I know to have such an exhaustive vege menu. I would recommend aloo chop, aloo gobi with garlic naan! Yum!!! :)

Ok, ok Cheryl22 and Steel117, we know about Bilash.

Please, this kind of persistent advertising just puts people off. People go with honest reviews given by people who have no ties with the place they are reviewing. Whether you do or do not have any ties, this constant advertising suggests that you do and just annoys readers and puts them off from visiting.

www.thebohemiancafe.co.uk :D