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  • Could be good, but isn't quite there

We wanted to love Humblest of Pleasures and it's great to have an all-vegan café, but the food is just not all that great. It seems many vegans are so poorly catered for that they're too easy to please. We love cooking and we love good food – the fact that it's vegan shouldn't mean you have to lower your expectations. The problem here – and in many places we've been – is that the ingredients are too visibly bought off the shelf and then nothing is added to make them special. Readymade (always bad) supermarket fake cheese, Tofurky, facon, Paxo stuffing mix, shopbought cranberry sauce and so on. When you pay £6 for a sandwich, it really needs to have something about it that doesn't make you think how much better you could do yourself or how much the ingredients cost in the Co-op next door. I really hope they continue – and most people seem to love the place – but I also really hope they put a bit more into their food to make it a proper treat.


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