Australian Vegan Business

Contact: Yoko Inoue – owner

Info: Using a macrobiotic approach, shokuiku offers cooking classes, catering, and a personal chef for hire. They also provide a bento box dinner service – complete meals in a box – and an ordering service for Japanese ingredients. Food covers both the savoury and sweet spectrums, and all desserts are made with wholesome, organic ingredients, free of refined sugar. Some example dishes are brown rice with sweet chestnuts, pumpkin soup with cashew cream, oven roasted cabbage with kuzu tamari sauce, tofu ‘cheesecake’ with apricot, and amazake tart with seasonal fruit jam. Details of cooking classes and workshops are given on their website.

Phone: 0403 569 019

Email: shokuiku.life@gmail.com

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Info: Soulveg prepare a diverse array of food with no artificial colouring, flavouring or preservatives. They cater for cosy dinners to events with hundreds of people and offer taste themes such as African, Soul Food and even Aussie BBQ! Individual items go from burritos, muffins and wraps to meetballs and their famous range of over 20 types of cheezcake. You can find their cheezcakes in a select range of Melbourne outlets or buy their food direct from them – both wholesale and retail.

Address: 99 Patterson Street, Ringwood East 3135

Landline: (03) 8802 0679 | Mobile: 413 679 594

Email: Website contact form

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Contact: Michael and Lia – owners

Info: A Melbourne vegan institution, the Las Vegan Bakery doubles as a cafe serving dishes from soup to sweets. As far as possible, they use organic ingredients to create food like fishless fingers, calzones, hand cut potato chips, cakes, and muffins in flavours such as cherry almond, pear pecan and lemon ginger. The bakery also caters and their muffins are available in some other Melbourne stores. Cooks Lia Vandersant and Liam Davies have also released a book on soups published by Aduki Press, Soup For All Seasons.

Open: Tuesday and Wednesday: 11am-3:30pm, Thursday and Friday: 11am-9:30pm

Address: 22 Smith Street, Collingwood 3066

Phone: (03) 9415 9001

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