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  • 5
  • A popular veggie-vegan spot in York

The Goji Café is a popular café and takeaway, and rightly so: it’s a great place to eat. It serves a reasonable selection of soups, starters, salads, mains, desserts and cakes alongside a good range of coffees, teas and other drinks. Many of the dishes are vegan, or can be adapted to be vegan-friendly. There are gluten-free options, too, but more choice would be good. I don’t get the chance to visit often, but when I do, I like anything vegan on their menu which comes with roast potatoes. You can’t go wrong with a roast potato, but you could also try their tasty sweet-potato wedges. Their home-made desserts and cakes usually include plenty of vegan choices and are delicious. If there’s a vegan cheesecake on the menu, I can’t resist it. Not cheap, because of lots of expensive ingredients, but indulgent and gorgeous! Their other cakes are yummy, too. On the whole, the menu is good, but, even though I don’t visit often, it seems samey and just aimed at a student market. Would like much more variety, please, for all customers and more hot veg. But overall, the place is a gem. For me, the huge downside is the building: there is a small dining room downstairs (and small courtyard) and another dining room on the first floor, but the loo is on the top floor: up a beautiful, but horribly-steep, old staircase. The place is virtually inaccessible for wheelchair users and many other disabled people. A move to a better place, with a downstairs loo, is long overdue. The waiting-staff work incredibly hard, dashing up and down lots of stairs all day long. And still serve with a smile! Not a cheap place to eat, but it’s in the middle of an expensive city, so the prices will have to reflect their overheads.


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