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Serves meat, vegan options available. Cafe with vegan and gluten-free options. Options include breakfast, sandwiches, bagels, toasties (with vegan cheese), cakes, pastries, cookies, brownies, and more. Kids' menu includes vegan Bolognese, toast with beans, and more. Also serving hot and cold drinks. Open Mon-Fri 09:00-16:00, Sat-Sun 08:30-16:30.


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10 Reviews

First Review by Fio44

BevW

Points +215

Vegan
15 Jan 2025

Savoury meals & homemade cakes

They do some healthy options and some cakes too. Have been a few times now with friends. Close to the Palace.

Pros: Big portion , Homemade cakes , Nice staff

HazelJean

Points +100

Vegan
21 Aug 2024

Nice wee find for vegan options

Found this wee gem of a cafe with vegan options in Linlithgow. Cozy, friendly and helpful staff. the cafe was busy with everyone arriving at the same time, but the food was served quickly. I chose the veggie macsweens toastie which they veganised for me with vegan cheese. Wee blip in that they originally served it with non vegan coleslaw, but they noticed straight away and changed it immediately. The toastie was delicious. Good selection of vegan cakes too. I can definitely recommend.

Pros: Great food with different options from the usual., Friendly owner., Efficient service.

Cons: None

rg19078

Points +113

Vegan
12 Aug 2024

Great vegan options

Went here for brunch and had a really tasty bagel with portobello mushroom, avocado and vegan cheese. Also got the vegan carrot cake which was delicious! There are a few vegan options to choose from, although they are not clearly labelled ‘vegan’ but by reading the descriptions you can see which ones are vegan, and they offered to make any of the dishes vegan.
They also do very nice coffee with alternative milks.

Pros: Affordable, Great selection, Tasty food

RosieBlack

Points +46

Mostly Veg
20 Apr 2024

Lovely lunch!

Really delicious food and great options on the menu. Friendly staff too. Would definitely recommend and will be back!

Pros: Menu options, Outside seating , Friendly staff

TheOfficialWils

Points +47

Vegan
11 Jan 2024

Good food, nice people

Staff were lovely and the food was great. Perfect spot for a bit of lunch, they had a specific veganuary menu too on top of their normal stuff

JohnKnight

Points +410

Vegan
09 Sep 2023

Very welcoming

Great place with knowledgeable helpful staff and excellent food. I had a VLT and gosh it was good. Many vegan options and no surcharge for e.g. plant milks

Pros: The food , Very welcoming, CAKE!

Cons: Serves meat

AndreaMarchettini

Points +74

Vegan
02 Jul 2023

Lovely cafe in Linlithgow

Worked 2 days in Linlithgow, could not have been happier with the choices. The owner and all staff were really nice, the food was great and you can really see the effort made to reduce packaging and sell local products. They even remembered on the second day that I am vegan and were haply to make recommendations. So thoughtful!

Updated from previous review on 2023-07-02

Pros: Great vegan options, Nice staff, Fair prices

Lana_

Points +28

Vegan
03 Jun 2023

great vegan options, good food, but missing some items

Nice atmosphere but I recommend booking ahead if attending on a saturday lunchtime as it was rather busy. Luckily, we were able to be seated but were sat on a table right behind the coffee machine, so it was quite noisy. Some really good vegan options here that you don't typically find elsewhere. It seems like a lot of thought and care has been put into the menu as none of the items seemed basic. I also liked that a lot of it was homemade or locally sourced and they seemed to be quite enviromentally concious.

Some mistakes were made with our order however which let it down a little. One of the meat eaters asked for brown sauce and got chilli jam instead and the sourdough bread, which looked delicious, was unfortunately fridge temperature cold which cooled the hot contents of the sandwich. Someone else in our group ordered a cinnamon bun which was rather small considering the price.

The menu said we could swap any meal for a vegan alternative, so I ordered the open half bagel with bacon but asked this to be switched for vegan bacon and also swapped the poached egg for mushroom instead. Unfortunately, the vegan bacon had been forgotten and I hadn't noticed when it arrived. As it was rather busy, nobody came to check on our table so couldnt let them know. It also meant if we waited for it to be cooked the rest of the food would have gotten cold and we would also have to extend our parking. We brought the missing items to their attention at the end of the meal and they kindly compensated the drinks for us as an apology which we were very grateful for. The food that we did have though tasted very good, the vegan food was flavourful and well-seasoned, perhaps a little too salty if anything, but was cooked very well.

I would stress though that the cafe is not disability/wheelchair friendly. Very tight corridor and steps both to seating areas and also down to the bathrooms. Noted they did have good baby change facilities though and free nappies for those that need them as it seemed like a popular place with parents.

Updated from previous review on 2023-06-03

Pros: tasty food and menu items that can be made vegan, interesting, non-basic vegan options, homemade/locally sourced ingredients

Cons: noisy depending on seating area, not disability friendly, small portion for bun, items missing from order

Caityh

Points +73

Vegan
11 Sep 2022

Great vegan options

Vegan menu options such as a mushroom bagel with vegan cheese and vegan breakfast roll. Vegan cake options as well

Pros: Lots of vegan options or variations , Easily marked on menu , Vegan friendly staff

Fio44

Points +175

Vegan
18 Oct 2021

Great choices

I have been here a couple of times know. Their mushroom bagel is really nice as well as their chickpea / pesto sourdough sandwich. They always have Ve cakes too.

Pros: Vegan options , Fresh home made produce , Really tasty

Cons: More vegan options would be great




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