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The pop up in the pub has gone. Moved into private catering apparently. Bar man says they usually have vegan options in the new menu but there was no chef in today

I hired vegan food pimp to cater my wedding 3 years before the event.
Throughout this period they were incredibly difficult to contact. We would often receive out of office emails and have to wait multiple weeks for a response.
They told us 3 days before the event that they couldn't cater an event where they "didn't know what the kitchen was going to be like" and "couldn't risk their reputation" despite not turning up to a venue visit they were invited to and being in contact with the venue owner.
Despite being told in this cancellation email that we would be "refunded in full tommorow" it took a month of constant texts and emails to get our refund.
We were told on 7 different dates. "the money will be given to you today" and given a string of excuses before only getting half the money.
It took another 2 weeks of excuses to get the rest of the money.
Some of the most unprofessional conduct I've ever experienced.

I booked VFP in April 2021 for an event in October 2021 after searching the internet for vegan catering. Everything was fine to start with, VFP was happy to offer menu suggestions and was very flexible. However, as time passed, and especially over the summer, VFP was not in contact and both the venue's events manager and I were chasing her for information. We were promised a site visit which didn't happen. I was told multiple times that everything would be settled after the busy wedding season (which ends when? I don't know).
Eight days before the event, I finally received an email which told me I was late with my final numbers and balance (although I had emailed her multiple times over the summer and not a word was said), I was told to change the dessert because OBVIOUSLY the venue kitchen is nut-free (I would not know this) and she had the time of the event wrong.
Being cautious, I asked the venue to come up with a plan B for lunch, which they did. VFP had quite a big deposit from April and I did not want to cancel because I thought the deposit might be kept, so I waited. And she cancelled at 5:51 am the day before the event, due to illness. I did receive my entire deposit back after a couple of emails. I can't comment on the food because I never got to try it. The two weeks before the event were so stressful for me because of this shocking service. I do not recommend.

We had booked Lynn for our wedding in a year before the big day, Lynn had been great at emailing until about week before I emailed countless times asking for a planand a few days before got a vague reponse saying she would email back later, I never received that email. On the morning of my day we still hadn’t heard from her. Unbe known to us Lynn had subcontracted out our wedding contract to a random chef that she found on social media. We obviously only realised this when said Chef turned up. chef told us she had never worked with Lynn before and had no idea who we were and obviously vice versa. We were so shocked as we hadn’t been told any of this (a direct breach of contract as she didn’t ask for our consent). When we finally got hold of Lynn and asked what was going on she replied that “ I never said it was going to be me coming!” Which to us was shocking as Lynn ie the vegan food pimp was who we had booked. The waitressing team that we paid for didn’t turn up. There was no waitressing staff for the wedding. hours before our ceremony started, our venue owner was ringing round friends to help out. In the end our guests had to help serve the wedding food which was mortifying. The canapés we had paid Lynn for were missing so again our venue owner and mother had to travel an hour to source and buy from another business.these things came at a cost to ourselves!! When questioned she took no responsibly for missing staff as they “are Agency and she can’t control what agency staff do” !! The food itself randomly arrived in a van it was not the quality we had agreed with Lynn and was mediocre at best. Edible flowers we were promised was no where to be seen. The 3 months that followed the big day were horrible for us. she didn’t apologise once and had an excuse for everything. After getting no where with her we took Lynn to small claims court. She accepted to pay the settlement in full however she lied on the court paperwork about her address. (She had moved from Brighton to Northampton months prior). When Lynn didn’t pay the money by the specified court date we served Lynn with a County Court Junction. Again Lynn didn’t pay by the specified date and continued to ignore all emails from us. Lynn only surfaced when we started to comment on the Vegan Weddings Facebook page messaging me via Facebook asking what the problem was!! Lynn FINALLY paid after I told her we knew she’d lied about her address and we we’d served her with a CCJ.

BE VERY CAREFUL!!!!

*****Since posting this review on VFP's Facebook on the weekend (along with many other people doing the same with their own terrible stories), she has now removed all reviews from her FB page and has disabled comments from her IG account*****

Please do not use Vegan Food Pimp for your wedding or event!

She provided terrible service and food for my best friend's wedding and quite frankly, it would've been better if she hadn't come. Since their wedding, we've been in contact with countless couples who have also had awful experiences. Please avoid her, we don't want to see any couples go through what my best friends went through.

Updated from previous review on 2022-07-25

Lynn was booked for our wedding a year and half in advance. She promised us everything we asked for. We were so excited but should have known something was up when she didn't send us any tasters and would always have an excuse. The weeks leading up to the wedding she stopped replying to us. The venue tried to get in contact and she didn't respond to them either. Eventually we began to worry and looked into some more reviews and found that vegan food pimp had some pretty bad reviews in the last few months. Suddenly it dawned on us that she was going to do the same to us.. Not show up, send subcontractors That didn't know anything, or apparently worse actually show up and provide a horrific service. For all she knew we were still going along with everything as planned but we text her saying we were cancelling and wanted our money back 2 day before our wedding the next morning she text back saying she had covid. By this point we knew she was lying anyways and demanded a full refund and didn't want her or any subcontractors showing to our wedding. We made a mad rush to buy foods for the day and also ordering pizzas from domino's (not what anyone plans for a wedding day really) she help onto our money for a while and then I threatened to take her to caught and get compensation too if she didn't refund us by 12 that day. She was smart enough to do so but we later found out it was at a cost to another person who booked her. We also found out she double booked our wedding and the day of our wedding she was in fact at another one (apparently with covid) which we found out from that bride was a horrible experience including Lynn becoming aggressive with guests. The food was not up to quality and as we've recently discover lynn delete negative reviews and has friends and family's complete reviews to boost her ratings. I think she has probably rarely provide a quality service based on the 20 couple we've spoken to in the last month. I only gave 1 star because I had too

Important info - AVOID Vegan Food Pimp
Posting for awareness to try and prevent more people getting scammed on the most special day of their lives!

90% sure we've been scammed by Lynn. Our wedding is tomorrow and she's been uncontactible this week. Venue organiser has tried to contact with no luck, can see she's read messages. She's been paid in full and after three awful recent reviews I don't hold out much hope. Like those ones, we booked over a year ago.

UPDATE: This was posted on the Thursday night and on Friday morning she finally cancelled with a terrible excuse about having covid. But we found out that she cancelled 3 weddings the weekend before so she must have known in advance.

We had to DIY barbecue for our wedding which our parents helped with. I was cooking at 7am on the morning of my wedding. My mother-in-law was in the kitchen for 2 hours of the wedding day missing out on a chunk of socialising and spending time with us.

Lynn Nicholson/Edwards expects us to be fully ok with her excuses, but this could have been handled 10x better. She should have let us know as soon as we had known or had alternatives in place. us and the venue had been trying to get hold of her 2 weeks before, so she knew what she was doing.

We got a full refund with a lot of nagging and excuses, and haven't decided whether to claim emotional damage/compensation yet.

Avoid Vegan Food Pimp at all costs - it's not worth the stress and upset and she should be shut down.

Turns out on vegan weddings UK and happy cow she's scammed a lot of people. Ours is not the worst of it.

ANOTHER UPDATE: At the time of sharing this info on this page Lynn removed the reviews section on her page. She has also been reporting posts on pages such as this.

I am in touch with around 20 people who have been affected, some chasing for their money back since last year. She is refusing post for court orders. I am also in touch with one person who she double booked on our wedding day, both of us booked over a year in advance. Unfortunately for that person they paid in full on the Friday for her to show and do a rubbish job on the Saturday, which is likely the only reason we got our money back. All info confirms she is a scammer and con artist and needs to be fully shut down.

Updated from previous review on 2022-07-27

We have just been let down by Lynn after having originally booked with her in 2020 for our wedding.

Initially, communication was great but since early 2022 she has routinely dropped of the radar, not replying to any messages for a couple of months at a time. We expressed anxiety about this earlier in the year as she was impossible to reach at some points and in response, she was really reassuring and said she was just back-to-back with weddings because of covid-related cancellations but that everything was in-hand for the day itself.

4 days before our wedding, she became totally uncontactable again and had still not confirmed many crucial details like the final menu, whether she had made a plan for a guest with allergies and what time she would arrive. It then got to to the point where we asked if she could simply confirm that she’d be there, but she didn’t even open these messages or return our calls/voicemails. The evening before, we started to find these reviews and, as Lynn had completely stopped opening our messages or answering her phone even just confirm that she would show up for the wedding, we felt we had no other choice but to come up with an emergency food plan. We were so anxious that if we didn’t make a contingency plan at that stage, we were potentially going to have no caterer show up to feed our guests, but this also meant taking on the risk of paying for two lots of food. It was incredibly stressful and if we hadn’t had family and friends to help, I don’t know how we would have resolved it.

When Lynn still hadn’t responded to any voicemails, missed calls, WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook messages late the night before, we told her not to come as we had already had to make an alternative arrangement and had no faith that she would show.

We have now asked her for a refund for the 50% deposit too. We’ve no idea what to do now as Lynn is still not opening any of her messages and we haven’t heard anything from her, so we are wondering if she ever had any intention of showing up.

It would be great to help prevent this happening to other couples as the undue stress and potential wasted money it causes is huge. We were really relaxed about our wedding and always wanted it to be a relaxed affair so were quite laid-back about the whole thing otherwise, but even in these circumstances, dealing with Lynn was incredibly stressful. I cannot express how strongly I would recommend avoiding VFP at all costs!

Absolutely do not even consider booking this con artist. Once she’s got your money she will go radio silent and not show up. Not worth the stress or hassle. Wish I could give her zero stars at even 1 start seems too much.

Complete scam artist. For some bizarre unknown reason, she seems to have gone from being a legitimate vegan chef to a scam artist. She takes your money then stops replying to messages. Sadly we uncovered all the other negative reviews too late and had to source a new caterer at the last minute having not heard anything from Lynn. If you're considering booking her then please steer well clear and save yourself the stress of dealing with a woman whose new favourite pastime seems to be attempting to ruin couples' wedding days.

We had booked Lynn in July 2021 ready for our wedding in August 2022. We loved the sample menu and paid the deposit to secure the date. We agreed the second instalment were to be paid after having a taste test.
In September 2021 I received an email saying we were late paying the second instalment. I replied apologising but explained that we had agreed to pay the second instalment only after tasting. Lynn’s next email suggested that we were wrong for wanting a taste test as “no one has never not enjoyed my food”. Within her email, Lynn suggested that the quote provided would change if we didn’t pay “as with everything increasing so fast we want to be sure we can stick to all our original quotes”. I tried to contact Lynn but the constant "out of office" with no return date was the most response I ever received.
We were going to have the wedding in our garden however we had to find an alternative venue. Our new venue was only 13 minutes extra for Lynn. All other suppliers confirmed within 24 hours they would be happy to change the venue. It took daily emails over the course of a month for Lynn com back to us. However she expressed this would have high extra costs and “I am having to redo all the bookings for this”. Lynn had never said that she needed to book anything in addition, we are unsure what those extra bookings were. We had provided Lynn with a kitchen at the original and second venue.
At 4pm on Saturday 27th August I received a phone call from our wedding venue to say Lynn had a medical and therefore will not be at our wedding. Our wedding was on Sunday 28th at 3pm. The phone came from a mysterious lady who was Lynn's friend claiming “I can't leave my name I am just doing a good deed” a suddenly hanging up.
1. What was the plan of action when something goes wrong? She said the preparation would have been done the day before, couldn't one of her team drop off the food? After talking with Lynn, we find out none of the preparation had even been started, she was in Devon.
2. How did the friend know who to call? The communication was always through our wedding coordinator not the venue itself.
3. Why didn't she contact the client, me?
Luckily, I had mentioned to our venue this may happen and we should plan for it. The Granary did an incredible job! We sympathise with Lynn and hoped she has a quick recovery but would also like a refund as we have paid for two wedding breakfasts. Lynn has not even acknowledged what upset she has caused. See comments

Updated from previous review on 2022-09-16

We booked Lynn 'Vegan Food Pimp' over 2 years ago for our wedding that due to COVID finally took place on Saturday 24th September. At the time she had many positive reviews and several complimentary online articles... Reading the below reviews I can only assume she had fallen on bad times and in the past 18 months and as a result started ripping off her customers.

Suffice is to say after paying in full Lynn's contact with us and the venue became erratic. Our hosts the Latest Music Bar (excellent people) found it very difficult to make contact with her in the week leading up to the wedding and... Suffice is to say she didn't show up on the day, leaving us out of pocket and forced to order pizzas for our guests. We've called, the venue has called, Lynn did not answer, I've since emailed and WhatsApped... Radio silence.

Very disappointed and furious. We will be pursuing a full refund and won't shy away from court action.

Lynn was supposed to cater for my 50th Birthday party last month. She took full payment and then didn't turn up on the day. After reading similar reviews after the event I now realise I have been scammed. She sent an email a few days after my party saying she was unwell and offered me a refund. The refund has not been paid. I have now reported her to Trading Standards. Any advice from anyone else who has experienced being scammed by her?

Wedding 30/07/2022. Vegan food pimp booked my wedding with promises she only does one wedding a day. In the months before the wedding I couldn't get her to reply to my emails and she hadn't spoken to the venue. The day before my wedding she sent an email to tell me she had mixed up the day and wouldn't be attending to cater. I was at work, so it was sheer luck i saw the email when i did (i then had to book the day off as emergency annual leave to sort it out, not so easy in the NHS!) I tried to phone her and she didn't pick up, but immediately responded to my partners phone call. She said she knew for days she had "mixed up the dates" of our wedding and another wedding and had been trying to book another caterer but couldn't get anyone at such short notice. She was rude in her tone and scoffed when my partner said she had ruined our wedding. We said she should be cancelling the other wedding and attending ours as our email exchange showed she agreed the date when we booked it well in advance and so must have booked this wedding since, but she was having none of it. We had to repeatedly ask for our money back so we could attempt to fund alternative arrangements and she kept saying she would do it soon until my partner phoned and requested she do it then and there whilst on the phone, again, she was very rude. I took to facebook and found many people had had similar experiences. Turns out she double books weddings despite her promises of not doing so and then shortly before the day will decide which one/s to attend and which to sub-contract. People have had no shows, late shows with awful food/staffing and random caterers who didn't know the menu etc. So we felt quite lucky that she had been unable to do that to us and we managed to book amazing catering instead. She continues to do this despite telling people it was one offs or lies/blown out of proportion, people have lots of evidence of her continuing to lie to them. Luckily we got our deposit back but many people have not and she has stopped responding to their emails and phonecalls and is turning away letters. We are unable to leave reviews on her social media and website.

Updated from previous review on 2022-10-20

Do not use this ‘business’. Lynn will promise you excellent service, food and other lies until the day before your wedding when she cancels on you and makes up excuse after excuse and will never refund your money. A true con artist.