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• Absolutely Horrendous - YUCK!!!

Went to this cafe based on the Happy Cow reviews and was angry to find that those reviews bore no resemblance to cafe I visited! In my opinion the place is a disaster from start to finish. Myself and my daughter left all our food as the place looked filthy (on the day we visited there were literally dozens of flies dead inside the salad counter). We had travelled across town based on the glowing reviews and were very hungry and so decided to overlook first impressions by giving the salad counter a miss and putting the flies down to a hot day and ordered from the kitchen instead. We ordered two "dirty rolls" (so appropriately named!) and "homemade fries". Neither of us could eat any of the food and we left nearly everything. This is the first time in her life that my 11 year old has refused to eat fries as they were simply swimming in grease. The contents of the rolls looked like dog food (no kidding or exaggeration). Another customer nearby was complaining and the lady sat near me was politely force feeding herself and silently gagging. I am not kidding, but these reviews are seriously misleading. This place is vile and gives vegan eating a bad name. I have been a vegan for 40 years and eaten all over the world. Best advice: STAY AWAY NO MATTER HOW HUNGRY YOU ARE! I had to give this a rating of 2 cows as that's the lowest Happy Cow allow, but if I had my choice it would have a zero. I would advise that this cafe does a deep clean and that the chef do some travelling around other veggie/vegan places to see how vegan food can be clean and fresh - it does not require a fancy cooking course, just some interest in giving people a nice plate of food. I would also advice that one of the problems here is that it is very disconcerting not to be able to identify the food on the plate, which again comes down to cooking and presentation. Our waitress was friendly, but seemed oblivious to the problems with the food. I understand that this is a "grungy" style place, but that does mean that basic standards can be thrown out of the window. (btw, I was so appalled at this place that I actually joined to write this review as I felt some honesty was needed for the shamefully wrong reviews it has received).