Whether it’s a beloved Northern Quarter institution, a boozy Withington hangout or elegant, world-renowned Bombay cuisine, the ever-expanding list of Manchester’s vegan brunch options offers almost too much to pick from before they start afternoon tea service.
We’ve rounded up our favourites:
With almost four years of roaring and wholly predictable success under its belt, the Manchester branch of Dishoom, London’s favourite Indian for over a decade, offers an extensive vegan menu. While their breakfast choices include Akuri, naan sausage roll and date and banana porridge, you’ve got all day to try the pineapple tikka, gunpowder potatoes and many more, washed down with a vegan lassi.
Faithful to British brunch culture, Trof runs its breakfast menu until 4pm with options including a customary vegan full English and wild mushrooms on toast. Their brunch club, from 10am-12pm Wednesday to Friday, offers a plate and a drink for just £8.50.
Leaving it as late as is reasonable, really, Evelyns of Tib Street keep brunch going until 5pm, with irresistible vegan dishes including a superfood bowl and an ‘ECB’ salad.
Another restaurant which devotedly stretches its brunch menu beyond both edges of the average working day, Ezra & Gil’s Hilton Street branch serves enormous vegan breakfasts and fruit-laden organic porridge between 7:30am and 5pm, while their Peter Street outpost offers poke bowls and roasted cauliflower dishes from open to close.
With breakfast, brunch and lunch on until 4, Bold Street Coffee elevates standard fare like avocado on toast while offering vegan adaptations of their egg ‘buoys’ and superfood porridge.
Inspired by the flexitarian Mediterranean food culture, Hampton & Vouis have you covered ‘whether you follow a strict vegan diet or like to mix it up’. Sourcing ingredients from independent northern businesses, their brunch menu includes housemade beans, smashed avocado and Lotus biscoff pancakes.
Serving full vegan breakfasts, fajitas and plant-based soups alongside a ‘huge selection of carefully chosen booze’, Fuel Cafe is a cult favourite among South Mancunians for good reason.
Featuring ‘an ever-rotating lineup of independent street food traders cooking delicious vegan dishes’, Grub runs a vegan culinary carnival every Sunday at the Green Quarter’s Red Bank Project. Following Sri Lankan delicacies and ‘Desert Island Dumplings’, punters can chase their brunch with a range of 100% animal-friendly beers, wines and cocktails.
Tucked beside the famous Old Wellington pub and less than a minute from Manchester Cathedral, the fully vegan Allotment Eatery menu features cauliflower wings, satay skewers, raw courgette pasta and more. Weekday visitors can get two small plates and a hot drink for just £12 from 12-3pm.
- Words:
- Wolf McFarlane
- Published on:
- Mon 17 Apr 2023
Offering heaving plant-based fry-ups, cinnamon apple waffles, ‘veggie bennies’ (vegan eggs benedict) and a meatless ‘MancMuffin’, the Oldham Street linchpin covers all the bases with its breakfast and brunch menu.