Hungry Cat Café, Harleston

Hungry Cat in Harleston - vegan food styling and photography

This South Norfolk café is a real gem. The Greek owner Razz serves up a 100% plant-based, homemade menu featuring dishes like lasagne, stuffed mushrooms, Mediterranean tarts and the most amazing cakes and baklava. Olive oil, lemons, mint and dill are ingredients staples. Want to learn how to make your Insta food snaps pop? Her other passion is food styling and photography – keep an eye out for workshop dates here.

Slice + Dice, Norwich

Fancy a side of Battlestar Galactica with your bao buns? Primarily a board-games café, Slice + Dice also serves up a fairly extensive plant-based menu, sourcing ingredients as locally as possible. Food-only bookings are available if you don’t want to play games, or worry you’re liable to dribble ramen on the deck. Check out the themed cocktails too – I’ll be having the Pawnstar Martini!

River Green, Trowse

Run by dedicated head chef Chris Avery, award-winning River Green has been delighting locals and visitors for years with its innovative, affordable vegan and vegetarian menu. This place has a great reputation and the ethos is environmentally conscious and 100% loyal to local producers. There’s a cookery school, occasional supper clubs and chef’s table private dining experiences to book too.

Resist! Vegan Kitchen, King’s Lynn

A guilt-free doner? Sign me up! Tasty kebabs (top ten in the British Kebab Awards, no less), quarter pounders and loaded fries are the staples from King’s Lynn’s first vegan restaurant, which is currently upping sticks and moving to a new home in the town. There’s even daily dessert specials to finish with – and ice cream for dogs.

Tofurei, St Gregory’s, Norwich

Not content with performing their magic on humble beans, Norwich’s soya alchemists have used their transformative powers to create a very cool café/bistro space for scoffing all their vegan deliciousness. Warm wood, plants, pigeons (just go – you’ll find out!) and a NYC loft vibe. With tofu products scratch-made using their own tofu, this is vegan deliciousness to shout about.

Moorish Falafel Bar, Lower Goat Lane & Park Lane, Norwich

The Moorish Falafel Wrap with a side of jalapeños

Inspired by the sunshine and zest of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cooking, this lovely Moorish indie rustles up incredibly tasty, excellent value vegan food to eat in or take away. With super-fresh falafel the star of the show, the two stylish cafés bring a smile to very happy tummies in the Fine City.

The Tipsy Vegan, St Benedicts, Norwich

Speakeasy cocktails, mouthwatering bites and a mocktail list to rival the best in London? I’m in! One of the first vegan restaurants to open in the city, The Tipsy Vegan makes no pretense about loving the taste of a bacon sarnie, but they don’t want animals used in the process. So the food is vegan versions of comfort classics: burgers, mac ‘n’ cheese, wraps and tapas. Cheers!

Namaste Village, Norwich

Namaste Village is a family-run Indian vegetarian and vegan restaurant with some of the finest food around. Inspired by different regions of India, it’s healthy, delicious and innovative. We love the dosas, Gulab Jamun (sweet heaven!) street food sharing platters and proper good salt lassi. And the tandoori pizzas are the stuff of Norwich food legend. There are cookery classes plus you can buy Namaste’s ready made spice mixes in the Bazaar section of the restaurant. Like they say, it takes a village…

Hanks Dirty, Castle Quarter, Norwich

Fast food, but make it vegan. Craving a kebab, hot dog or dirty burger? This is your place. Expect an American-diner style menu packed with ‘can’t believe it’s not meat’ comfort food, with table service and a full bar of cocktails, draft beers, shots, mocktails and milkshakes.

Whilst in Castle Quarter don’t miss the ever-expanding vegan deli that is Vishcake & Vibs for all your plant-based fishcake, sausage, ribs and steak patty needs.

Huggers, Long Stratton

Huggers cafe, Long Stratton, vegan afternoon tea

Who says plant-based has to be all salads and smoothies? If you’re after vegan versions of homely, comforting classics, this café is your go-to. Located in a historic building dating back to the 1500s, Huggers serves cooked-from-scratch favourites where you won’t miss the meat, including sausage and bacon baps, full English breakfasts and Sunday roasts. Fancy a sweet treat? There’s afternoon teas, sundaes, American pancakes and – oh yes! – sticky toffee pudding.

Benedicts, Norwich

Winners of a zillion accolades, Chef Bainbridge and the Benedicts team can produce a full-on plant-based feast, celebrating some of the best vegan food around. The fantastic vegan tasting menu of 5 or 8 courses will be specially prepared with the freshest ingredients in Norfolk, so you need to give 24 hours notice before arriving to swoon over every mouthful.

Aloha Ices, High St, Sheringham

This legendary seaside ice-cream stall is glam up to date with Alburgh Ice Cream’s fabulous selection of Vegan flavours. They include Vanilla, Coconut, Coconut & Pineapple, Raspberry Ripple, Honeycomb, Mint Choc Chip and Chocolate, and all are free from milk, nuts and gluten. There’s a delectable vegan soft serve too, which comes in a vegan cone/tub or be served as a wildly fabulous sundae with a load of scrumptious vegan toppings. Divine!

Benoli, Norwich

Tucked away at the bottom of Timber Hill, Benoli is an Italian restaurant focussing on fresh classics all made in-house from scratch. Whilst it isn’t a fully vegan eaterie, it does have a dedicated vegan menu which changes with the seasons as frequently as the à la carte, with dishes added and reimagined depending on the available produce. Taking inspiration from food across Italy they bring a modern twist to classics. Must-have favourites include the mafaldini with artichoke and sage butter followed by the blood orange sorbetto with campari and geranium.

Amandines, Diss

Located in a charming glass-roofed courtyard, Amandines is a trail-blazer, serving vegan and vegetarian food for almost 30 years, making it an institution amongst lucky Diss locals. The courtyard is heated by a snug wood-burning stove during the cosy months. And the menu? Home-cooked, fresh and seasonal.

Dhaba at Fifteen, Magdalen St, Norwich

Cousins Jahangir Alom Ali and Juned Ahmed Ali launched Dhaba at Fifteen to celebrate Indian street food and home cooking, combining the flavours of traditional food carts with the refinement of contemporary cuisine. Lots of gorgeous rich roasted spice, earthy baking and tangy pickle makes vegan hits like the South Indian vegetable curry (cauliflower, potato, tamarind, coconut milk, curry leaves and mustard) really sing. There’s plenty for carnivores too, but honestly, they are missing some absolute delights.

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