Love Shack August 2018

I’ve been suffering from a cold all week and was really craving the comfort of cheese toastie but had been unable to get to a larger supermarket to buy some vegan cheese so on Friday when I had an hour or so to kill before taking part in the Earthlings Experience in Romford I hatched a plan.

I was thinking of places that weren’t too far out of my way home and I thought of Love Shack in Cambridge Heath, I had only walked past it previously but I had had one of their smoothies the previous evening at Vegan Nights (which I wrote about here).

The space is really cool with a large outside area with beanbags, deck chairs and hammocks, great to chill out with a book or a group of friends.

Taken from Love Shack website

I ordered my cheese toastie along with a juice of pineapple, pear, kiwi and ginger. The ginger helped my throat and the metal straw kept it extra cold.

The toastie was on a wholemeal bread and came with a lentil, tomato chutney as well as a side salad. The cheese was oozy and delicious and definitely what I needed!

I’ll definitely be heading back and bringing a few chums along with me next time!

Have you spent some time at Love Shack? What did you think let me know in the comments below.

Plumes x

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Love Shack August 2018

Vegan Nights Carnival August 2018

Vegan Nights takes part in the first Thursday of the month at 93 Feet East on Brick Lane and August’s theme was carnival.

As Brick Lane is a short walk from work I always get there early and this time I met up with my friend Maxine and her friend Antonia who was attending her first vegan event!

I was a bit miffed when I arrived as I was made to empty my water bottle. In these high heats when we are encouraged to carry water to keep hydrated especially while travelling it is a shame Vegan Nights has this policy. It is especially mad when the first thing we did once entering was go to the bar and get a large glass of free tap water!

As always we did a tour of the stalls before deciding what to eat. There are always new stalls that I haven’t seen before and new foods to try!

For my main I decided to go for wings n tings from Italfresh a Caribbean stall. It consisted of cauliflower “wings” in a ginger beer batter with slaw and sweet potato fries. The thick batter was really tasty and feels a little virtuous by also have a good portion of cauliflower!

Antonia also went for Caribbean from another stall, she had jerk chickn bites with plantain, salsa and slaw. This was Antonia’s first time trying plantain and she was completely sold!

Maxine went for a peanut butter BBQ burger from Vegan Vice (I couldn’t find any links online)

This burger looked immense and Maxine got quite messy trying to eat it!

We wanted something refreshing and cool and the temperature was still hot hot hot as we went into the evening. I chose a smoothie from Love Shack which had coconut milk, pineapple and ginger.

Maxine and Antonia were tempted by the coconut ice-cream served by Elly Joy and it was easy to see why!

I couldn’t go out and not pick up something for my Husband. I got him a peanut butter and jelly brownie from Vida Bakery.

As the evening goes on it gets busier and busier and the queue when I left was getting quite long. I usually make a speedy exit as by Thursday I’m tired from the week at work and this week I’m also suffering from a sore throat coldy thing.

Have you been to Vegan Nights? What did you think? What did you eat? Let me know in the comments below.

Plumes x

Vegan Nights Carnival August 2018