Went to the opening of Heather Mills' (Paul McCartney's ex-wife) vegan
café vbites yesterday http://www.vbites.com/ Met quite a few of the
crowd who do the vegan fayres around the country, so it was nice to
catch-up. The food was pretty good (ok NOT really diet food, but...).
The wait was a little long, but you expect that on the first day (&
with the big crowd), but the staff seemed friendly (& the one's I
talked to were vegan as well so actually knew what you were going on
about :-). I'd recommend it, but it is a trek out of town if you're
coming from Brighton (just walk west along the promenade for a good
long way if you don't mind walking!). I had a salad (you get a mix of
3 or 5 small salads in one depending on the size of salad you order) &
some fries (yea fries, it was a planned refeed - I expected I'd
actually be eating worse than I did :-). Afterwards we hit the beach
for a vegan BBQ a few clever people had thought to organise (that
translates to 'vegans getting drunk on the beach'). I just ate some
more while the others drank. You don't want to fill up that stomach
with alcohol when you could do it even better with MORE food :-)
Still I expect I'll be eating there again quite often, the only issue
is you have to make a special trip to get there & unless you're a
skater (there's a skate park outside), dog walker (dogs are welcome),
or a parent of a young kiddie (there's a playpark outside the door)
then there's no real reason to be in the area. I usually jog past it
several time a week, but that's only the halfway point, from there I
jog back, but I'm sure I'll find an excuse to eat there again quite
soon.
Anyway I thought you might be interested in my day,
Speak later I'm off to do legs,

Pete Ryan www.veganbodybuilding.org