Vegan-friendly
Lacto
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American
Western
Fast food
Breakfast
Non-veg

Serves meat, vegan options available. Rock pub offering breakfast with tofu scramble and a DIY vegan fry-up, then an extensive rock-themed burger menu. All breakfast items can be veganised. Burger can be made veg/vegan upon request and comes with fries/wedges and salad. Sunday roasts and chili dog Tuesday both have a veggie option. Open since 2009 and was at Navigation Live Music Venue (but the pub itself has a very old history). Open Mon-Sun 08:00-10:30, Mon-Thu 12:00-23:00, Fri-Sat 12:00-00:00, Sun 12:00-21:30.


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78 Reviews

First Review by rachell37

RachelCruickshank

Points +756

Vegan
14 Jan 2024

Fun menu but burgers are just okay

I’ve been here several times, the staff have always been lovely.
The variety of the menu is great (maybe even a bit overwhelming).
The burgers are okay. The patty itself I find quite dry and crumbly, it’s not my favourite. As for the toppings, they’re a bit hit and miss. Last time I tried a burger that was supposed to be topped with pulled pork, but was nothing like pulled pork.
It’s great that all burgers can be made vegan, but I think they should reduce the menu so that what they offer is better. I love the choice of fries (I love curly fries). Vegan Mayo is available on request.
The portion sizes are huge and I always leave very full.

Updated from previous review on 2023-08-29

Pros: Great variety, Huge portion sizes

Cons: Not fully vegan

dariakara

Points +314

Vegan
03 Sep 2023

All burgers can be made vegan

Great to have so many options on the menu! Went here for my birthday and loved the food and cola float

Updated from previous review on 2023-09-03

LeviMann

Points +159

Vegan
26 Feb 2023

Lots of great tasty options

Loved how they can adapt every option to be vegan, burgers were very tasty and nice choice of sides and drinks too!

Pros: Lots of options , Tasty, Good cocktails

GeenaNicholson

Points +96

Vegan
19 Feb 2023

amazing!!!

Such a huge choice, they do everything meaty, veggie and vegan. And the vegan ones are incred!!!!

Annalisstar

Points +144

Vegan
04 Feb 2023

innovative burgs

hungry sized portions, go with friends and cut up to try more of them. Gammon intriguing but not fan, loved everything else. keep eye on the specials and limited editions options

Pros: Vegan versions everything , Great casual pub dining , Hungry portions

MarkRickaby

Points +49

Vegan
14 Jan 2023

Vegan options for everything

It’s great that everything on the menu can be made either vegetarian or vegan, but it’s not obvious from the menu how some of the burgers could be adapted - for example, several burgers feature specific cheeses and I doubt there are vegan equivalents for those unique flavours.

The vegan burger is a roasted beetroot, mashed kidney bean and soya mix with a bit of vegetable shortening and seasonings. It’s okay, but I’m not sure they’ve got it right yet. It’s too crumbly, too soft, and it’s fairly lifeless by itself - it relies too much on the other burger ingredients to bring any flavour.

Most of the drinks on the menu are vegan and there are a good number of alcohol-free options.

Food was served very quickly and the bill came even quicker. It all felt a bit rushed. #Veganuary

RachelHollings

Points +208

Vegan
29 Nov 2022

Good burgers

Found this place completely by accident, it had a sandwich board outside that said it catered for vegans which caught my attention. The menu was big and it said that all burgers could be made vegan. My only problem, was that other than exchanging the animal patty's for plant based patty's, it didn't specify how they would change up some of the other components like bacon.

BarbaraG.Baz

Points +1715

Vegan
28 Aug 2022

Great burgers

Big portions, all burgers can be made vegan. Very filling and delicious food!

Fredeeh

Points +198

Vegan
08 Jul 2022

Lots of options

Everything on the menu can be made vegan which is great. The milkshakes were really tasty, I recommend trying them. The curly fries I had were great however the vegan burger patty isn’t my favourite.

Updated from previous review on 2022-07-08

Carolinaghan

Points +231

Vegan
14 May 2022

Hit or miss

Can be very hot or miss depending on the chef. It’s the only place where I’ve had to return food that stale before. The staff are always lovely though and the chips are great. I would always recommend the vegan milkshakes.

N_Jayne

Points +26

Vegan
08 Jan 2022

Loved it!

I was amazed that all the burgers came in a vegan option purely because of the amount of different ones on the menu! I had a fajita burger and asked for the vegan option and it was absolutely delicious. The portions were huge and it just tasted phenomenal. It was also a reasonable price too, around £30 for two main meals and two drinks. The only downside was the wait. We went on a busy Friday night and it took just over and hour for our food to come to the table.. #Veganuary

Pros: Lots of choice , Caters to all vegan/veg/meat eaters

Cons: Long wait time

Vrochar

Points +16

Vegan
31 Dec 2021

Dry overly seasoned burgers

Gave it a chance because they said all burgers could be veganised but regretted it. Really thick, dry and overly seasoned bean type burgers (in the worst way you can imagine) trying to make up for the “meat” flavour.
It’s 2021, if you can’t make a good vegan burger you’re doing something wrong.

Pros: Chips were nice

Cons: Dry burgers, Bad flavour

RC93

Points +20

Vegan
23 Nov 2021

Lots of options

Tasty burgers with a big choice (although less than it looks at first glance as a lot of the non-vegan burgers change meats & cheeses).

RitaDomi

Points +198

Vegetarian
23 Sep 2021

Nothing unique

Tasty food and plenty of options, but nothing unique that makes me go back. If you are looking for a place where everyone can get a meat, vegan or vegetarian burger with chips, go for it. If you’re looking for real food then look for somewhere else. Great location in the centre of the lace market.

Pros: Location, Food for all tastes

Cons: Nothing unique, Too busy (all the time!)

HannahSmith28

Points +13

Mostly Veg
12 Sep 2021

The worst restaurant experience I have ever had and the ONLY restaurant I have ever had to walk out of (after waiting hours for our order)

The worst restaurant experience I've ever had & the only restaurant I've ever had to walk out of due to the absolutely appalling customer service.

Me and my partner ordered our food after being advised it was busy with a 45minute wait on food orders. After ordering, we received our food 1.5hrs later, my gluten free order was the complete opposite of what I'd asked for - I got served a Sainsburys gluten free frozen tiny Ciabatta bun (4 for £2 at Sainsburys local just around the corner) with a beef burger instead of their usual good quality gluten free burger buns with the grilled chicken burger as promised on the menu. Communication was completely none existent, absolutely no communication between staff or management, customer service was INCREDIBLY poor. Really shocking as we have been before last year and had a good experience back then. After 2 hours of waiting for our food and being ignored by staff my partner went to enquire about our order and the kitchen had messed it up a 2nd time, telling us we would have to wait even longer than over 2 hours we had already sat waiting. By this point it was 10:15 & we were one of the last tables waiting in the restaurant.

I'll never ever set foot in Annie's again. Absolutley shocking service and the worst eating out experience I've ever had. Never experienced customer service so poor in my entire life. Zero stars.

Please go to Fat Hippo around the corner - amazing burgers and amazing customer service 👏

Updated from previous review on 2021-09-12

JackieChampionToppl

Points +40

Non Veg
19 Aug 2021

Won't rush back

Visited under promise of all items can be made vegan.

Reality not great. Cheap, dry tastless burger loaded with numerous sauces etc.

Ordered a side of bbq vegan chicken fingers which cost £3.20 was literally small ramekin of Frys chicken strips covered with sauce.

Chips were stone cold as were my friends sweet potato fries.

Service slow also.

Won't be going back!

Jcj3ssi3

Points +1202

Vegetarian
12 Aug 2021

Wide range of options

I’ve been here so many times and I really enjoy it. I love their pickles and dip (not sure if vegan) but the burgers are good and the portion size is quite big.

Updated from previous review on 2021-08-12

AndyW85

Points +21

Vegan
08 Aug 2021

Nice Try, But Extremely Disappointing

At first we were excited that every item on the menu is available vegan which we really appreciated, however when the food arrived it was tough, bland, dry and extremely different to what was advertised on the menu.

I selected The Broadway which was meant to be a burger layered with an American sausage patty, whole chicken breast, grilled bacon, melted American style cheese, and dip.

What arrived was an extremely dry and crumbly bean burger with very little flavour, and two unidentifiable dry patties that were so tough, crunchy and flavourless they were actually too much effort to try and chew through. The cheese was completely unmelted and the bacon I'm sure was quorn which any vegan will tell you is the worst vegan bacon.

As the chips I had the seasoned curly fries (pretty sure these were just bog standard supermarket curly fries) topped with chilli. The chilli again was dry and bland, without a hint of flavour or spices, and it was topped with some lazily ripped up pieces of vegan cheese slice that again was completely unmelted.

As a side I ordered the beans with sausage which (while I can't find these online to check) was advertised as something along the lines of being sweet and smokey and cooked with molases which for over £3 you would expect to be pretty special considering its a small ramekin. What arrived was literally indistinguishable from just some hienz baked beans, straight out of the can and unchanged in any way other than having cut up sausage in it.

The strawberry milkshake was nice, but could achieve the same at home in 2 mins by mixing some swedish glacé icecream in with a Nesquick milkshake.

The only items I really enjoyed was the 4/5 small chunks of sausage in the beans and the vegan blue cheese dip.

In summary, the staff were lovely but Annie's Burger Shack vegan food is sadly an example of what non-vegans THINK all vegan food is like.

I very awkwardly asked for the beans to be knocked off the bill which is the first time I've ever complained about a meal, but frankly I wish I'd asked for more off as I was only able to eat about 1/3 off the burger, chilli and chips it was so dry and bland. Went home hungry.

Gave 2 stars because at least they are trying to offer a large selection of vegan options and the staff were very friendly and apologetic when I awkwardly complained.

Pros: Friendly helpful staff. , They are trying to cater for vegans., Reasonable prices if it were as advertised.

Cons: Food was awful, dry, bland., Left hungry., Gives vegan food a bad name.

Karen82

Points +420

Vegan
13 Jul 2021

Fantastic

All their burgers can be made vegan, that's a lot of choice. Great sweet potato fries and delicious vegan milkshake.

LilyFae

Points +113

Vegan
20 May 2021

Not bad

Not bad, no where near as good as it used to be a few years back, I feel the vegan/veggie burgers have gone downhill and not as nice as they used to be. Good that they have plenty of options for vegans & veggies though.

Pros: Lots of vegan options

Cons: Not as good as used to be , Patty’s are dry

Toria535

Points +76

Vegan
18 Sep 2020

First visit and not the last

We ordered click and collect meals for 4 vegans

The shack is actually an old church building down the back streets of Derby! (easy to find with satnav)

I ordered the Kogumaza with curly fries, The burgers are all huge and the with plenty of toppings too, the patty is soft and not dry and tasted really nice the sesame bun is soft too (i’m pretty sure it was brioche) and the curly fries went down nicely too. The other 3 meals looked equally as good.

The staff are friendly too

10/10

Pros: All burgers can be veganised , Large portions , Cardboard packaging and paper bags

Cons: Parking isn’t great

Fattyted

Points +3311

Vegan
11 Sep 2020

Spoilt for choice!

Annie’s is amazing. It’s so nice to be treated like equals and have the whole menu to choose from. The new barriers in place around tables to keep customers safe from infection work well, and getting our temperatures tested on the way in to the building was an additional safety measure. The food is fantastic. I had the Boston Nibbler burger.
Try the Jack Daniels mustard sauce, and the frickles! So tasty! Can’t wait to go again.

Pros: So much vegan choice!, Really fantastic food, Huge American-style portions!

aanslovesfood

Points +154

Vegan
09 Aug 2020

Amazing food

The food here is amazing, I specially love how the whole menu can be vegan. It has so many options that you won’t know where to start! 😊

ChrisNottsVegan

Points +55

Vegan
09 Aug 2020

1 of our group got meat

4 of us out and we all ordered wither Veggie or Vegan. 1 of the Vegan burgers came out as meat.

They were very apologetic, swapped it and didn't charge us for that one but isn't the point. If you are offering vegan options this can't happen.

Cons: Ordered Vegan - Served Meat

Beckyboop

26 Aug 2020

Woah, that's so bad😡We're going to the Derby one for the first time today...

AnneTill

Points +52

Vegan
06 Jan 2020

Amazing burgers and service.

Amazing burgers, nothing too much trouble for the server, for example I asked if it was possible for me to have salad rather than fries and I got a mahoosive side salad. Obvious which burger was my vegan one was as they used coloured flags. The burger I had was the Elvis. The burger was moist and tasty. The peanut butter was crunchy and yummy. The jam sweet and sticky. So good we're going back again tonight.

Pros: Every dish on the menu can be made veggie or vegan

Cons: They do serve meat, not really a con though.

Ant1Plant1

Points +1734

Vegan
05 Jan 2020

Burger joint where pretty much everything can be made vegan

Went for the vegan sloppy joes while my brother went for the non vegan one. He tried mine and said he actually preferred my one.

Pros: Wide choice , Nice venue , Good friendly staff

Cons: Gets very warm downstairs

Nablies

Points +56

Vegetarian
17 Nov 2019

Fantastic choice and great food!

Absolutely every burger on the menu can be veganised and its so nice to come to a restaurant that doesn't just remove things to make them vegan; they have vegan versions of everything from currywurst to chilli! Portions are really big and it's quite reasonably priced.

Only one negative, the service was a little slow due to them being really busy. The food service time was acceptable but it took 25 minutes from having our plates cleared to paying the bill! So bear that in mind if you've got somewhere to be. Other than that it was fantastic, highly recommended.

Pros: Extensive vegan and vegetarian menu, Massive portions , Nice vibe

Cons: Slow service when busy




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