Wild Food Cafe

Wow. I can't stop thinking about it. The only thing that would have made this better would have been the jackfruit, but it was out of season!

Great service, delicious lunch. I'm in love.

Today they launched their new Spring Menu which is just delicious!! I wasn't much of a fan of their winter options but they have raised their game (enormously) with a selection of more sophisticated and flavoursome options now. Their staff recommended that, as a meal, I paired two of their starters, followed by their matcha cheezecake, which was being served at almost every table! My starters were called "What I did this spring" featuring delicious roasted fennel, aubergine, seaweed and "Oyster in a shell" my favourite!! Such a creamy and rich concoction. My only complaint is that their magic matcha latte has now vanished...please bring it back!!

This is a warm cafe which is located upstairs in Neal's Yard. I ordered the soup of the day, beetroot, which was pretty good but not amazing like the other dishes. The sweet potato wedges are awesome and the aioli is fantastic. My partner ordered the pie (might be called Wild Shepherd's Pie) and it was divine. The top layer of sweet potato was very creamy and it was filled with lentils and peas. I loved the cheesy kale chips on the side but my partner prefers to make them baked with oil and crispy rather than dehydrated. We got the banana bread to finish and it's served with a lovely chocolate and caramel sauce. Food is quite pricey.

Best Banana Bread ever

Fresh food which is really tasty. Canteen style seating which can be a bit cosy but is great if you are eating on your own. Gets busy and noisy at lunchtime and you may need to wait for a table.  Given that it is a cafe rather than a restaurant it is a little on the pricey side, but it is in a great location - Covent Garden!

I love this place - their sweet potato fries with cashew cream are to die for and they always have great soups. It is a little on the pricy side though, especially for drinks. However, this is a favourite lunch spot of mine.

A great spot for wholesome, quality food. The portions are decent sized and filling, and well worth the price. I had a Super Salad that was incredible, as well as a Matcha Latte that blew me away - highly recommend! Sweet potato pie, & some sweet potato wedges that were both great as well. The staff was friendly and well on top of everything despite the fact that the place was busy. I would definitely recommend this place if you’ve got a lot of walking to do in London, because it will give you some real energy.

The food itself wasn't amazing but decent, the staff can be lacking when it gets busy, however when they are with you they are super lovely and are more than happy and helpful to answer and find out any dietary request. A bit expensive for the food but the presentation is great!

Is not easy to get a table here, we tried a few times, but it worth the waiting!!!

The food itself was decent, but not amazing. Tad expensive, as most things are in London. Service was pretty bad. We waited 20 mins before I had to ask the server why we hadn't been served yet, and then he took my order right away, although he didn't apologise or seem to be bothered by it.

Seating was pretty tight, especially with the couple beside us being loud and annoying.

The fairy feast salad bowl was light and refreshing. Followed up with raw banoffee pie which was tasty. Mellow and relaxing atmosphere, definitely a must go vegan spot.

We had two lovely smoothies and a banana bread to share. They were all absolutely delicious and the rest of the menu looked great. Would be a five star review except it's rather expensive - we paid £20.50. Would like to go for dinner there sometime but will have to save up!

This really is vegan heaven! My husband and I who have been vegans since 1991 and 1990 respectively, went to this totally vegan and organic restaurant the other day and plan on returning again and again. The food is amazing and the staff are wonderful. Harry was warm and welcoming, charming and knowledgeable. I love desserts and so began with them. The raw cheesecake was not only aesthetically pleasing, but may well have been the best I have ever tasted. The banana bread, which I began the meal with as well was delicious and also presented in such a beautiful manner. Next, I had the sushi and sweet potato fries. This is definitely the place to visit if you are vegan and even if you are not, do try it. You will not regret it.

We went a second time and it was just as wonderful as the first. My spouse had the raw courgette pasta and he loved it. I had desserts to begin, the raw cheesecake and the lemon verbena tart and sushi. Delicious! Even more delightful than the food was the wonderful person who served us, Reda. She was so warm and loving, exactly the kind of person you hope to meet in this life and she helps make this an absolute all time favorite in our traveling life.

This restaurant knows that the people who work there make the food even better tasting than it already is, for they are amazing people serving amazing food.

Updated from previous review on 2016-10-18

Just delicious food. Ok some of it sounds weird if you prefer familiar foods, but everything I ordered was amazing, including a burger with a strange but delicious granola type "bun". Cakes are to die for.

This has to be one of my favourite vegan restaurants in London. The place has an amazing location and the vibe inside the restaurant is really nice. The food is excellent !! Defiantly worth the price. The sushi is amazing !!! I really love the open atmosphere between the kitchen and the seating area. The only fault is that they do not have more tables.

went to visit there on my own and was greeted by a very friendly staff member, i had the sushi and a smoothie. a little over priced but a great healthy raw cafe!

Lovely food in a gorgeous location, desserts are the best so just skip the mains if you feel like it (I know I did!) The staff are incredible, especially Ben and Elizabeth! Thanks for making our experience so much better :)

Very nice picturesque location. The staff was very polite. A bit pricey. Really fresh food. Not so extensive menu.

Hard to find, but worth the effort! Even my omnivore dad raves about this place.
The wooden benches aren't the most comfortable, and sitting next to windows at midday puts you in direct sunlight. Plus it's a very small place, so if you're going at lunch, expect a bit of queueing.
Everything else about it is wonderful though: the waitors are incredibly welcoming, and the food is innovative and tastes GOOD, which is all you really need.

It is quite pricy but being a vegan place combined with being in central London it is bound to be. The desserts are especially good.

We tried 2 mains which were very tasty but quite expensive (and there is a service charge added to your final bill which makes it even more expensive). After that we took one dessert which was very heavy, fatty and not sweet enough. The waitress was lovely so they deserve this service charge and even extra tip ;) The worse thing about this place is that it is very small, you share a table with strangers and it is incredibly loud and noisy. Good place for fast lunch but not to seat relax and enjoy food or conversation.

Food was very good! Location is not where Happy Cow says it is! You have to call them. We got served immediately and the staff was very nice. The place was beautiful! Gave 4 stars just because of the price. We got 2 cakes... 2 large smoothies and sweet potato fries which came to 60 euros.

Fairy vibes. The whole area was colorful and had nice art on the walls. The food was delicious, yet quite pricy as the servings are quite small. Overall I really enjoyed it and the staff was very nice too.

it is a cozy, individual restaurant.
tasty food, especially the cakes.

Lovely little cafe within Neals yard. I had the burger and lemon cheesecake and husband had the salad and ginger and rhubarb slice. Food was delicious and well presented.

Super super nice. Had the burger, which was raw and vegan(of course). Really tasty and filling. Staff super friendly and cheerful and the surrounding place; Neils Garden is so cozy. :)

Will definitely come back.

The only reason I give 4 stars not five is that I think there should be more main dishes and they had run out of all beer and lemonade. Not a big deal though

It has huge portions and the food is all fresh and unique
They are a bit expensive and it's hard to get seats

This restaurant has now been 100% vegan for the last four months. Hopefully happy cow can change their classification. The food is really amazing, and the people are incredibly nice. Everything is fantastic, worth the trip!

Wild Food Cafe is a raw-centric vegan / vegetarian restaurant that's located in central Covent Garden's colourful Neal's yard.

I've tried the Wild burgers (based on season) various times and it's safe to say that they were enjoyable! The desert offering is very interesting too.

The primary downside to this place is high prices vs the portions sizes for eating-in customers. Take away price are quite lower and this is likely due to the limited seating they have.

Been coming here on and off since I was a kid and love it. Food is brilliant but the drinks are very expensive. £6 for a apple juice (albeit freshly squeezed) it's a lot to add on the bill. Great vibes. Happy place. Fantastic food.

Tried their juices, rolls, burger, sw potato wedges and desserts - all were perfect! Can't wait to go back :)

I started writing this review saying I couldn't five stars as I only had some raw lemon cake and a smoothie, the cake and smoothy were outstanding. my advise was also excellent and the cafe has a great feel to it. I had been to caravan coffee the previous day and thought everyone in London as miserable *******, wild cafe changed my mind.
Robbie who serves me gave lots of chat and was interested in why I was there and all the staff we smiling and seemed to enjoy their jobs, make you feel welcome.
plenty of vegan options were available and the food on offer looked great.
it isn't cheap, in think it was £15 for my smoothie and cake, but I'm not saying it's good value. my favourite organic slogan is "don't ask why it's expensive, ask why other food is so cheap" it's often because it's pants!

Mains like the burger are fantastic and soups are excellent. Desserts bit sweet for my liking

All of the food we ordered was very good. The hot chocolate really stands out as the best we've ever had. Service was also very good, despite a crowded restaurant. I really want to give them five stars, but the prices make that impossible.

I have mixed feelings about this place. It was very very crowded when I came (which is a good sign really, must be popular with the locals) so we sat at the bar. There were alot of staff, some friendly and some a bit...odd and not so friendly, but in general not too organised, we had to wait a while to order our drinks and then a while to get them, although our desssert came very fast. there was alot of amazing options and sadly I didnt get to try the main menu, but from what I saw with other people the portion sizes were not bad at all. My raw caramel slice was quite big, lovely presented with edible flowers and tasted absolutely amazing. Perhaps more sweet than Im used to, tasted like alot of coconut nectar/sugar, and that was the same for my hot chocolate, but overall reeeeeally good. Plus my omni bf liked his drink and the cake, which is always hard to achieve espesh in a sort of hippy cafe. I think I would go back for the food

I absolutely loved visiting here, was a really great treat and made me feel super healthy! It was a little expensive, but it's not an everyday dining experience and not all that easy to find raw food in the UK (though there are an increasing amount in London ☺)
The food was amazing...though it still wasn't enough to impress both of the meat eaters I brought with me, though it definitely impressed one of them! Had an amazing pudding as well, even though I was pretty full from my main meal, which was relatively small but really filling, there's always room for dessert!
The atmosphere is quite different to other places I've visited, but I enjoyed the difference, it was really small and crowded when I visited but it felt quite social and I really liked that the kitchen was open so you could see the dishes being created!
Would recommend to anyone wanting some tasty raw food! ☺

Visited Wild Food Cafe earlier today and had delicious salad and a smoothie called "Forgotten Ecstasy"... Loved both! Amazing people and atmosphere :)

1- Location : 5/5
2- Service : 5/5
3- Food : 4/5
4- Price : 3/5
5- Decoration : 4/5

GO VEGAN

My raw pizza could fit on the palm of my hand and costed £14!! It was good, but unbelievably pricey for that size. So was everything else. We were three people and ordered several dishes including starters, mains and desserts. Every single course was about 1 3rd the size of an average portion. Also you will be sitting in a very small crowded and noisy 20sq mt floor sharing benches with strangers. Staff is also quite chaotic and messy. The food is good raw vegan food, but I will not go back. There are much better restaurants in London. Make sure you have already eaten before going to this place or they will starve you!

I studied in London for the year. I came here nearly every week. I love Neal's Yard and Covent Garden. It's a great walk from Trafalgar and Leicester Square. It's a little overpriced, but what isn't in England. It can get super crowded too. Sometimes I'd get take away just to avoid the line. Then I'd eat outside on the benches. I took my carnivore boyfriend here. He hates to admit it, but he loved it. The raw pizza is amazing. They mix it up every once and a while too so you never get bored.

I have eaten here a few times and have not been disappointed. The cakes are out of this world, probably the best 'cheesecake'I have ever had (beats baked dairy cakes hands down. The food is super fresh and flavoursome, the burger with the sprouted seed bread is my favourite option. Nice vibe, friendly staff and located in the very cool area - Neal's Yard.

Hummus and raw crackers to die for! With Ayurvedic salad, you will feel like you've gotten the food experience, nutrition and flavor to last a week! We had lunch in the window over Neal Square and then came back the next night for dessert. While lunch service was brilliant, the dessert experience topped it. They let us in at the last minute and made us feel completely welcome for a vegan, gluten free chocolate tart (with yummy cocoa nibs and spices surrounding it) while they happily cleaned up around us. We cannot wait to be back in London just to come here. If only we had a restaurant like this near home! So charming.

This is by far my favourite restaurant in London. The menu is extensive and ever changing. Im not a big dessert person, but their desserts are incredible! They have a wide range of foods, not all raw and not all vegan so im sure most people would enjoy it. The atmosphere is electric! If you are ever in London definitely go to beautiful Covent Garden for a visit.

brilliant smoothies, fantastic RAW burger patty with delicious dried plums inside, great cakes, Sehr GUT ;)

Living a 8 minute walk from Wild Food Cafe, I eat there probably once a week. Everything on their menu is yummy - I normally get either the salad special, the raw pizza or the veggie burger with baked sweet potato fries. Their dessert specials are always hard to resist too! They are a great spot, and I am lucky to have them in this area as it makes eating vegan that much easier and more delicious! One thing of note though is that I find the space itself to be rather cramped, especially since it gets very busy during peak times and on the weekends. This, coupled with the slow service, means that I normally just call ahead and take out when I am craving something form Wild Food. However, I know they just remodeled their space, so perhaps this will aid in the facilitation of a more comfortable dining experience.

I love how this place looks and how it fits perfectly in Neal's Yard :x.

Visited with my boyfriend, we tried different things and liked them. The truffle sauce and burger were particularly good.

The best was the smoothie who's name I can't recall, something with ecstasy maybe. Basically dates, cocoa bits, agave syrup, banana and veg milk, all cold. True bliss.

We visited this cafe twice and were amazed by the special setting (kitchen is in the middle of the restaurant and open) and the extraordinarily friendly staff. Food was amazing, especially the vegan wrap and burger. We can also highly recommend the daily changing baked desserts.

I visited this place for the first time yesterday and the food was exceptional. We ordered a wild food burger and a ayurvedic salad washed down with raw lemon cheesecake style cake. All the food was really good with fresh ingredient and came relatively quickly. The place has a good vibe and is set in a cool little court yard off Neal St. Covent Garden. Highly recommended. Get in early as it fills up quickly.I hate added service changes please scrap this and let your customers decide if they want to tip! This is optional but do you wanna cause a scene asking for it to be taken off...

I so wanted to go there! We spent a few days in London with my boyfriend and I couldn't miss out the place! It's a bit hard to find though, it's not located IN covent garden, but a few streets away from here.
The place is busy, and there aren't so many seats available.
The place is beautifully decorated, the waiters are so friendly and so funny, they take the time although they're super busy.
We had a few things form the menu, only raw food.
everything was absolutely fantastic, I mean, I have really discovered something here. The raw Burger, raw pizza, the Truffle spread!!! Oh my... The raw cake wasn't exceptional but raw desserts rarely are.
All in all, incredible experience, truly a must for raw food. I just can't get over it!
Well at the end, you pay a lot, but I had lots of extras as well. You can eat for approx. 20-25 pounds per person, eating normally.
Go there!

We visited Wild Food Cafe a while ago. It was quite busy-very popular! There was lots to choose from-I think I had the raw pizza.

This is a great little place. Mostly raw food with good vegan options. They use freshest of ingredients, served in open plan space and you're sitting next to/with perfect strangers who are all happy to be there. Service can be scattered and slow.

They have very few dishes in this little spaces. That ensures that each and every one gets the proper attention from the chef and his staff and that all the ingredients are fresh and of good quality.

The cauliflower soup of the day was beautifully presented, although it needed some salt. The burger is tiny, but very satisfying. The staff is very nice.

This place is tucked away in the ACTUAL Neal's Yard, above the 'Neal's Yard Remedies' shop (after writing this review I'll get them to move the pin as it's wrong).

You come out Covent Garden tube and walk up 'Neal Street'- go past 'food for thought'(veggie cafe on your left) and then take a left where Holland and Barratt is- it's hiding in there!

ANYWAY- once you find it, it's a lovely little place. You're basically some chairs and tables around an open kitchen and it's lovely.
We went at 12 when they opened and by 12:30 it was packed out, clearly popular with locals. We just grabbed coffee (with soy) and their vegan choc avocado cake- it was delicious!!!! Most of the mains I believe were vegan and looked great, so we will come back again to try some :)

Downsides- the cake was mega pricey (£5.50 i think)and they obviously didn't have soy in because we waited ages for them to go buy it (I think from H&B,haha). Oh and they don't say that soy is available on the menu either, we just asked and they said yes.

Personally, if you're choosing between here and food for thought I'd go here. having been to both of them once, I just preferred this place.

We went to visit this restaurant for dinner on new years eve. The day before we had already walked past it, but it was closed then (the opening times are a bit peculiar, but I think they are on their web site). The atmosphere and food in the Wild Food Cafe is something special. The place is quite small and it is almost as if you're sitting in the kitchen, which is great; a very homely feeling.
We loved the hummus on sour dough bread and also the fresh guacamole we had with the falafel. After dinner we ordered ginger lemon tea and we got a cup of hot water with pieces of fresh ginger and lemon floating in it. Excellent!
The only downside: our eyes were bigger than our stomachs and we had ordered too much. The portions aren't small here. On our next visit to London we'll definitely visit this lovely place again.

Been here a couple of times now and I really love this place. Staff are really friendly and the food is fresh and vibrant. They do a lot of interesting things with dehydration/texture. Another plus it's mostly vegan. Their nut cheeses are pretty fantastic and I would definitely recommend the pizza.

Just about the best meal We've ever had!
We were warmly welcomed by the sweetest darling called Montana.
and was told to "make ourselves @home"
and that's what this place truly feels like....being welcomed home... what a sanctuary in such a bustling city!
We brought up our chocolate "ecstasy" from the wild juice bar downstairs.
and while waiting for Stuffed sweet potato I received my Ayurvedic Organic Salad.... I had no idea a salad could be so gooooood..
I could have ordered the large and would've been totally satiated! Gorgeous Nettle & corriander sauce,- layers and layers of shockingly delicious ingredients.

Then this stuffed sweet potato rolled out.... I was told it was the special, althoiugh I did wonder .... how special can a stuffed potato be?
Although it vaguely resembled what I thought one was,...this was WORLDS apart!... fresh Guac! Although mostly vegan...I treated myself to the unpasteurised grass-fed biodynamic Mozzarella....... Not only this.... but its overflowing with massaged kale..... the most atomic coleslaw of all time.....and a mango salsa.... how did they get such great mangoes in london????

Meanwhile My Fiancee had the Olive Shiitake Burger..... and it was lucky how much she loved my SweetPot,, so I could gorge a bit on the tastiest burger of my life!!... Since being veggie... I 've never found a veggie burger come close to the taste of real artisan burger...like back in the US...
This Sh!t was unreal--- so meaty & Juicy... and satisfying


Coupled with all this... a lovely atmosphere.... an open kitchen.....where we could watch the magic take place.... never seen a happier team.... I've never seen that kind of vibe in a commercial food operation.... everyone seemed SO in love with each other and what they were doing

Anyway I cant write anymore ..... i'm just planning my return.... either they better open one in LA or We're moving to London...

YUM FREAKING YUM!