Vegan Express wants to make vegan food, and the vegan life-style more mainstream. We have always had the ambition to reach a wider audience (beyond just vegans) with our food and concept. Home-made, minimal additives, made on site, nothing processed, good for your health, good for the environment and good for the animals is at the heart of what we do. We want to spread the vegan message and life-style, by serving delicious, top-quality vegan food.
Our
PHILOSOPHY
Our
MISSION
The key objective of Vegan Express is to demystify the vegan diet and lifestyle and making it more mainstream. It is trying to do so by serving home-made wholesome, 100% vegan delicious food, drinks and desserts. We do not use anything processed and try as much as we can to use local produce. Our target is to become a first-class vegan restaurant chain and grow with the booming trend for plant-based alternatives to meat and dairy. Our’ hashtag, which we have used since our first day or trading in 2016 is #makingveganmainstream
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OUR HISTORY
To us being vegan is a no-brainer!
Adopting a vegan lifestyle in 2015 was revolutionary for both of us. It is an amazing, empowering experience to realise the richness and diversity that food made from plants has to offer. Any reservations about missing meat, chicken, fish, eggs or dairy was soon diminished and we have not looked back since. Our only regret is that we did not go vegan sooner.
Vegan Express wants to show that by cutting meat and dairy you will not compromise on flavour or texture. It is entirely possible to cook high quality, tasty, delicious food made from plants.
The past decade has seen a consistent growth in vegan food and lifestyle products, there are more google searches on vegan food and vegan lifestyle. Supermarkets are launching whole new ranges of vegan food products and plant-based foods. Vegan Express was born out of our own vegan journey which started five years ago, but also out of our love for food and Charles’s exceptional knowledge and technical ability to turn basic produce into extraordinary dishes.
What people
SAY ABOUT US
we loved this restaurant and were so pleasantly surprised by the high quality of the food. Definitely want to eat more vegan food if this is what to expect. friendly and good atmosphere as well. We went for lunch there whilst visiting someone in nearby St Georges Hospital and it was a very welcome respite. Thank you
Sue Beadon
Trip advisor
Wide variety of delicious vegan food! Perfectly cooked and great service! Definitely worth the trip going there. Highly recommended! Having read reviews, i was cautiously optimistic & not being a vegan, this place would have to go some to blow me away. BOY was i in for a surprise. For such a varied menu, it’s incredible how each dish came out so delicious and clearly a huge amount of time and care went into our meal.
Rebecca Frazier
Google reviews
We used vegan express to cater for 30 people we invited to a summer garden party. They delivered platters of seitan and black bean wraps, with bean patties and fries which were all absolutely delicious., as well as a tasty chocolate cake. Would highly recommend if you need catering for a party.
Kate Shilton
Google reviews
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The menu here is just amazing, offering so many dishes but executing every one perfectly. The aubergine croquettes, pizzas and fish cakes were all utterly delicious. Cannot recommend this place enough
Lisa
Happy cow
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This place is excellent and whether you are vegan or not the food was amazing! My wife had butternut rosso pizza which was delicious and I had the stuffed aubergine which had an amazing cashew cheese topping! They also deliver on UberEats so go check it out veganexpress.co.uk
James
Yelp
Best food we have eaten in a while. I had the mock fish n chips. Just superb. My husband had the seitan pizza with extra chilies. Again, incredible. Can’t praise the food highly enough the cakes are sublime also. Can’t wait to visit again
Thank you so much to the chef and lovely waitress x
Thank you so much to the chef and lovely waitress x
Amanda Watkins
Facebook
Founders
Charles Diallo
Charles has a background in fine dining and used to run the Chester kitchen at the Dorchester hotel as a head chef between 2006-2014. He has more than twenty years’ experience of cooking and running kitchens in the UK and abroad. His passion for vegan food comes from finding great flavour in fresh produce that makes little or no impact on the environment. He is a true pioneer who are constantly seeing to improve and reinvent his dishes. Charles is the brain behind every dish and each menu at Vegan Express.
Ulrika Diallo
Ulrika is new to the restaurant trade and has a background in policy and public affairs. She runs the marketing, social media platforms, back office, staff issues, recruitment and procurement and share business development work with Charles. Running your own small business is the most empowering, exciting and positive experience but it is also the hardest, exhausting and most risky experience as the buck stops with you. You take all the benefit from it, but you have to put in an enormous amount of work.