Best places for vegan food in Southampton - See our list

The vegan challenge encourages people to only eat plant-based food during the first month of the year.

Launched in 2014, the idea behind the challenge is a desire to protect the environment and animals whilst improving people's health.

Several restaurants and cafes in Southampton now offer vegan menus and some businesses serve vegan food only.

If you're wondering where to find tasty, vegan options in Southampton, here is a list of places you could visit.

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Café Thrive

Cafe Thrive staff members. From L to R: front of house assistant Niamh Grimes, front of house manager Lee Passelle and cafe owner Sarah Abbott (Image: Maya George, Newsquest)

This popular cafe in Hanover Buldings is the place to go for plant-based food.

Many options are available from burgers and sandwiches to breakfast and desserts.

It's got cakes, milkshakes and even a Lord of the Rings burger.

Késarum

Késarum on the QE2 Mile is a modern plant-based bistro and bar specialising in contemporary Indian dishes.

It even offers vegan wines.

To mark Veganuary, the restaurant is offering 20 per cent off food.

The Nest 

This independent coffee shop with stores in London Road and Portswood Road offers a selection of vegan lunch and doughnut flavours as well as locally-roasted coffee.

All their doughnuts are handmade and vegan.

Flavours include lemon and poppyseed, bisccoff cheesecake, Black Forest, maple baon, cherry bakewell, raspberry, blackberry and pistachio.

Muse Coffee Co.

Muse in Portswood Road and London Road serves hummus and falafel wraps as well as Italian bagels.

Mango

This Thai tapas bar in Portswood, Above Bar Street and Ocean Village has six Veganuary specials including crispy tofu, mock-duck spring rolls and cauliflower bites.

The menu also features wraps, rolls tofu and other dishes with plant-based ingredients.

Heavenly Desserts

If you have a sweet tooth, Heavenly Desserts on Southampton High Street offers vegan waffles as well as brownies and blackcurrant crumble.

Its vegan menu also includes a variety of drinks from coffee, to smoothies and milkshakes.

Mettricks

Mettricks owner Spencer Bowman (Image: Newsquest)

The independent coffee shops in Guildhall Place, Woolston and Portswood Road offer vegan full English breakfast as well as vegan burgers, wraps and pancakes.

Restaurant chains also offering vegan options include:

• Bangerz 'n' Burgerz
• Byron
• Greggs
• Caffè Nero
• Costa
• Burger King
• McDonald's

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