Australian Vegan Business

NOTE: While festivals feature vegan food and products, organisations taking part may not be vegan or advocate measures that conflict with being vegan.

1. Saturday 12 March 2011, 10am-6pm

Green Earth Day – Brisbane

2. Sunday 1 May 2011, 10am-4pm

VeganExpo – Sydney

3. Sunday 16 October 2011, 10am-4pm

Living Green Festival – Canberra

4. Sunday 30 October 2011, 10am-5pm

Cruelty Free Living Festival – Sydney

5. Saturday 5 November 2011, 10am-4pm

Cruelty Free Festival – Perth

6. Sunday 6 November 2011, 10am-5pm

World Vegan Day – Melbourne

7. Sunday 6 November 2011, 12pm-7pm

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8. Sunday 13 November 2011, 10am-5pm

Vegan Festival – Adelaide

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Contact: Nelly Uhlenkott – owner

Info: Nelly’s Vegan Bakery sell baked goods such as brownies, cupcakes, and muffins, available at locations in Melbourne (see website for details). They also do special orders and cater for events such as business meetings and parties.

Phone/SMS: 0401 862 392

Email: veganbakery at me.com

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NOTE: Nelly’s Vegan Bakery is for sale. If you’re interested, please click on this link to see an ad for it.

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Contact: Deb Kantor – owner

Info: Mister Nice Guy bakes organic, fair trade cupcakes every day. They offer a wide variety of flavours, with new varieties added monthly. Delivery within 5 kilometres of the Melbourne CBD is free. Mister Nice Guy also caters for events and will supply cupcakes to stores.

Phone: 0405 001 442 or 0424 930 284

Email: hello at misterniceguy.com.au

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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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Contact: Nat Grant – owner

Info: Vegan Muff offers organic muffins, cupcakes, cakes and slices. Gluten free versions are available by request. You can buy them from:

• Blue Attic Boutique, 323 Lygon Street, East Brunswick. Phone (03) 9387 8015 or mobile 0406 070 821
• Mule Bar Cafe, 146 Sydney Road, Brunswick. Phone (03) 9388 8933.
• Organarchy, Level 4, RMIT Building 8, 360 Swanston Street, Melbourne. Phone (03) 9925 9791 or email foodcoop@rmit.edu.au
• The Radical Grocery Store, 347 Sydney Road, Brunswick.
• the owner, Nat, by special order.

Phone: 0408 519 859

Email: veganmuff@hotmail.com

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Contact: Mark Senn – chef

Info: Veginity provides online training in cooking (vegan). Veginity’s chef, Mark Senn, has cooked in vegetarian restaurants around the world as well as making cakes for the now defunct Vegetarian Orgasm in Melbourne. His website contains a number of free recipes and videos covering starters, main meals and sweets. People can also sign up to receive a free course and monthly videos on vegan cooking. These provide a sample of the paid monthly membership that gives access to more recipes and videos with regular updates.

Address: 22 Kearney Drive, Aspendale Gardens, Victoria 3195

Email: mark@veginity.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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Contact: Anikee Mallis – owner

Info: The Radical Grocery Store is Victoria’s first 100% vegan grocery store. It specializes in organic, fairtrade, recycled, reusable, natural and local products with many gluten free options. Products include the full Vegan Perfection range, a large selection of Fry’s frozen foods, Veganpet, savoury yeast flakes, red food dye, a growing range of raw foods, as well as CCF accredited health, beauty & cleaning products.

Address: 347 Sydney Road, Brunswick, Melbourne

Phone: (03) 9077 5512 | Email: info@radicalgrocery.com

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Info: Aduki Independent Press is a small nonfiction publisher dealing in topics from cooking to politics. They print only on fully recycled paper using mimimum energy and materials. They also produce aduki online, the web incarnation of the popular aduki magazine, its printed forerunner.

Address: PO Box 119, Brunswick Victoria 3056

Phone: (03) 8300 0233

Email: info@aduki.net.au

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