Chocolate and Beyond

Oak Street Cafe, Manchester - Creative Vegan Food & Lovely Wine

Last week I had a surprise invite to review the Oak Street Cafe Bar, where along with other food bloggers and local reviewers, we got treated to a fabulous lunch and some wine tasting. Housed inside Manchester Craft and Design Centre in the Northern Quarter, I never even knew the cafe (or the centre) existed until last week. And what a little gem it is.

It's not a vegan cafe, but the owner Karen Hadgett told us that much of the time, they end up serving vegan and vegetarian food, as it is what seems to sell the best there. And seeing as the majority of us at the review lunch were vegan (four out of six of us, go vegans!), the majority of the food we were indulged with was vegan, too. In fact of all the many scrumptious dishes served, there were only two of them that the vegan posse wouldn't eat, as they were vegetarian dishes.

Vegan Manchester - Vegan-Friendly Social Group Launching 20th November @ Soup Kitchen

Phew, it's been a busy couple of weeks! And next week on 20th November, it will be the launch night of Vegan Manchester, a new social group for vegans, their friends, and the vegan curious, to be held at Soup Kitchen in the city's Northern Quarter, with drinks and food from 6.30pm onwards. Our group on Facebook is growing rapidly, and the numbers on our events page for the night itself seem to be fast increasing, too!

Vegan Manchester is a group that I set up together with my friend, Sophia Fox, after we decided there needed to be a social group in the region that was a little more dynamic (as opposed to more of a fixed location support group) - moving around the North West to embrace everything on offer for vegans here, as well as engage local businesses to offer more to vegans - as we are definitely a growing movement!