Grass Roots Wholefoods - Peckham

veggie cafe and restaurant

  • Restaurant.
  • Food rating 5.0/5 (2 votes)
  • Service rating 3.0/5 (2 votes)
  • Atmosphere rating 3.0/5 (2 votes)
  • Overall rating 3.7/5 (6 votes)

A new vegetarian cafe in South London, opened June 2009. Alex of Vegetarian Guides has just visited and it is absolutely lovely, run by vegan John and his friends. Here's his detailed description, as part of his regular Vegetarian London update.

Open: Mon-Wed 9.00-20.00, Thu closed, Fri-Sat 9.00-21.00, Sun ;11.00-17.00. 75% organic. Bright, friendly, relaxing. If you like Pogo Cafe Sunday breakfasts, you'll love this place any day

Rootsy big cooked breakfast £6.50 with home-made sausage, scrambled bean curd, beans, roasted veg, hot drink. The Buljol £5.60 with plantain, ackee, Dominican Bulgol salad and Mastiff bread. Gluten-free porridge £3.50 with quinoa and millet flakes and teff flour. Muesli £3.95. Moving on to lunch, soup £4 with bread. Le Swazib £6.50 carib bites, rice salad, tomato and pepper sauce. Mezze £6.10. Sir -fry with buckwheat noodles £5.90. Jam Dom ackee and scrambled bean curd with rice £5.90. Sandwiches can be bagel £2.95, baguette £3.50. Desserts make with unusual ingredients such as spelt, hemp or Ethiopean teff flour such as apple pie, cherry pie. Cakes such as spelt flour choc coconut sweetened with date syrup £3.10 eat in, £2.80 take-away. Tea, coffee, hot choc;£1.20-2.30. They make their own almond and sesame milk. No alcohol yet, BYO for now.

Children welcome, baby changer, high chairs. They sell a few groceries. Yo south London vegan massive crew, get over there and support the new south London local!

Address

194 Bellenden Road, Peckham, London, SE15 4BW

Tel

020 7358 1999

Directions

It is at the corner of Danby Road. A-Z definitely recommended. Train: Peckham Rye BR, or there are loads of buses such as 36 along Peckham High Road (get a free SE London bus map at tube stations).

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( Last updated by Admin on 2009-06-07 20:52:28 )

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joanna E 2010-01-19 10:40:35

I took my children to here and ordered two Vegan burgers and the chef covered them in salad cream. The waitress clearly had no idea what was or wasn't vegan and offered us no reduction in the price when half the meal was inedible, because of the salad cream.

Michelle Ford 2009-07-03 09:02:42
  • Food 5/5
  • Atmosphere 5/5
  • Service 5/5

I ate at Grassroots wholefoods last weekend, the service and food were outstanding. I would definitely go back. I went in for breakfast and was unaware that it was vegan/vegetarian (I'm not). The veggie sausages were absolutely delicious as was everything else

Michelle 2009-07-03 09:02:54
  • Food 5/5
  • Atmosphere 1/5
  • Service 1/5

I work up the road from this cafe and just went in to get my lunch, the only other person in there was the waitress sitting at a table eating fried chicken out of a box!!

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