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Breakfast

The Nourish Co.
The 100 per cent plant-based eatery in Colchester in Essex, serves
delightfully fresh food prepared onsite daily, using natural whole foods in
their most organic form. The team pride themselves in supporting small
and local businesses, sourcing all their produce from as close to home
as possible. The breakfast options mainly feature sourdough dishes, like
the toasted artisan sourdough bagel with smoked aubergine, served with
cashew cream cheese, spinach and tomato (£5). If you want something
sweet, try the sourdough spread with almond, cashew or peanut butter,
topped with chai seeds and desiccated coconut, and if you want more,
add a sliced banana (£1 extra). If you’re big on hot drinks with your
brekkie, they have an abundance of specialty cofees and teas, including
the intriguing charcoal matcha green tea latte — a blend of activated
charcoal, matcha green tea and steamed oat milk (£3), and the beetroot
latte, made with spiced beetroot and dragon fruit, with coconut sugar and
steamed oat milk (£3) — delicious!
thenourishco.co.uk

Seeds for the Soul
This Edinburgh-based café is on a mission to show people
that vegan food is exciting, filling and full of flavour, and their
expansive menu does just that. The owner’s goal is to plant a
Seeds for the Soul in every city of Scotland, with the intention
of promoting plant-based food, educating people about the
benefits of a vegan diet, and, ultimately, helping to keep the
planet as clean as possible. All of their takeaway boxes, bags,
cups, cutlery, and napkins are 100 per cent biodegradable, and
all of the waste that they produce is composted or recycled
daily. Sit inside their cosy and homely interiors to while away the
morning, sipping on one of their delicious smoothies or cofees.
If it’s a filling fry-up you’re ater, Seeds for the Soul ofer a full
vegan breakfast, served with plant-based sausages and bacon
(homemade!), tofu scramble, potato scones, beans, spinach,
tomatoes, mushrooms, vegan haggis and toast (£10.95). Another
hearty option is the breakfast wrap, which comes packed with
vegan sausage and bacon, a potato scone, beans, mushrooms,
spinach, red onion and vegan cheese (£8.95). Also popular on the
menu, are the sweet pancakes, drizzled with maple syrup and
topped with fresh fruit, coconut and cinnamon (£6.95).
seedsforthesoul.co.uk

Café Kino
This vegan café and community space in Bristol is a welcoming and
friendly breakfast spot. Kino not only ofers delicious homemade food,
but they are a workers’ co-op and a non-profit organisation, so any money
made by the co-op goes back into improving the café for customers and
staf. They strive to help the people that live near, hanging the work of
local artists on their walls, ofering an afordable DIY events space, and
using only ethical and environmentally-sustainable suppliers that are
based in Bristol. Try their homemade muesli, made with toasted coconut
flakes, almonds, cashews, apricots, cranberries and raisins, served with
your choice of plant milk (£3.70). Also great is Kino’s plant-based fry-up
— you can go big or small — with vegan sausages, hash browns, garlic
mushrooms, roasted tomatoes and granary toast (£9.50, or £7.50). For a
fruit boost, order a freshly-made red berry, blueberry, carrot or spinach
smoothie (£4.10), or, if it’s breakfast indulgence you’re ater, go for one of
their deliciously smooth milkshakes made with soya-milk and vegan ice
cream (£4.10).
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