Small, well-stocked fully vegan wholefood shop with take-away food counter. The takeaway counter has a selection of freshly-made filled bread rolls, sandwiches, cakes, and pasties. The shop sells a variety of groceries including flour, pasta, nuts, seeds, pulses, jars and canned food. Has a fridge for cold drinks, one for chilled food such as soya yoghurts, hummous, spreads, tofu, veggie sausages; and a freezer with Frys products, Clives Pies, and other manufacturers of vegan foods, a few lollies and ice creams in summer. Some gluten free options. Supports local suppliers. Reported to be 100% vegan January 2017. Relocated from 9a Loseby Lane. Open Tue-Sat 10:00-17:00. Closed Sun and Bank Holidays.
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9 Silver Walk, St Martin’s Square, Leicester, England, LE1 5EW
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- Outdoor seating
- Wheelchair accessible
- Accepts credit cards
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Last update on 14 Aug 2024 by CurrantAffairs
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Added by dropscone on 19 Mar 2011
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41 Reviews
First Review by dropscone
hannahkisley
Points +331
Love love love - Edit
Adorable little vegan shop with a great selection of vegan cakes, flapjacks and savoury pastries all at very reasonable prices! ❤️
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Perryfamily
Points +65
Well stock of fresh food - Edit
Lovely place good stock but needs a lean and paint
Read morePros: Vegan, Staff
Cons: Parking, Repaint
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Table14
Points +21
Being going there for years. - Edit
Brill little shop, amazing freshly propared food.
Read morePros: All vegan
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20daisy00
Points +794
Vegan heart of Leicester - Edit
This little shop is an absolute gem and a must visit for any vegan, vegetarian or veg-curious person in Leicester! The shop itself is small but manages to have everything a vegan could wish for- including a fridge/freezer section, confectionary, cupboard staples and household necessities. There is also an AWESOME takeaway selection including cakes, 'quiche' and huuuge samosas.
Read morePros: 100% vegan, Bakery counter, Hard to find brands
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SheilaMosley
Points +96
Totally vegan food - Edit
It is such a pleasure to shop here - all the food is vegan and all of it is delicious.
Read morePros: All vegan
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ShaunMcG
Points +217
Fabulous Vegan Store in Leicester - Edit
The go to vegan place in Leicester. Great quality, home-made nut burgers, lentil burgers, vegan sausage rolls, pizzas, quiche, not to mention amazing brownies and bakewell tart.
Read moreVery friendly staff. Nice atmosphere. Retro.
Good stock. Great choice.
Pity it isn’t bigger, with a sit down eating area.
Pros: Homemade , Good choice, Great for lunchtime
Cons: Shame there is no sit down eating area.
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katyholton19
Points +29
loveliest little shop - Edit
My go to when I am out in town. They have a great array of burgers, rolls, cakes etc for a quick lunch! Also a good place to get speciality food like pasta and vegan cheese. So warm and inviting my whole family loves it.
Read morePros: Welcoming environment , Awesome cakes , Friendly staff
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AmyVCaroline
Points +2812
100% Vegan - Edit
Excellent shop with everything being vegan cupboard food as well as fridge/freezer/fresh and household items. Very helpful knowledgable staff. Cannot go in without coming away with something fresh from the window
Read morePros: 100% vegan, Well stocked
Cons: Wish it was much bigger!
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Mhaffner73
Points +205
Fabbie store - Edit
This place never disappoints. Amazing stock and plenty of vegan and veggie foods. This tore is soon to become 100% vegan
Read morePros: vegan , stock, fresh bakes
Cons: price
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Vegan GiGi
Points +1036
Great store with lots of vegan take-away items! - Edit
This store was SO helpful during my recent trip to Leicester. It is in a good central location downtown, and the staff is very friendly.
Read moreMy partner and I got some refrigerated foods and take-away items to eat at our Air B&B and to take with us on our travels back to Canada. The prices were very fair, and all of the take-away food in the front window is vegan! They have both savoury and sweet take-away goodies, and all of them are made in-house (with the exception of the Indian samosas).
We also got some candies and chocolates that we can't find over here in North America, so those were exciting treats as well.
All in all, this is a really great place with lots of delicious food! The only downside is that they don't sell fresh produce (but the Leicester Market is just around the corner).
Pros: delicious food, good value, great for take-out
Cons: no fresh produce
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JessP
Points +155
lovely find - Edit
Another lovely vegan find in Leicester, really friendly and knowledgeable team. Lots of take away options, and good stock of different items to try.
Read morePros: take away vegan pizza!
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isabelroo
Points +156
Lots of vegan takeaway goodies! - Edit
I wish I wish I wish I had a Currant Affairs where I'm from in Swansea!! When I find myself wandering around, peckish and looking for something quick, cheap and good quality.. Currant Affairs would be just what I need!
Read moreDuring a recent trip to Leicester we came across this sweet little wholefoods shop in the independent shopping area of Leicester (which also happened to be the best part of Leicester) and we were landed with all the vegan choice that was on offer! When I managed to single something out of the many tempting options I had a small (about 5" wide) vegan pizza and the apricot slice, both of which I thoroughly enjoyed.
There is also a good choice of wholefood items inside, and the staff are really friendly.
The only thing that would make this place better is if they could offer to warm up the takeaway snacks like the pasties, pizzas and samosas in a microwave or something, but that really is the only thing!
Pros: Big choice of vegan takeaway, Friendly staff, Good location
Cons: Don't be so far away from me!!
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GreenT
Points +36
Brilliant vegan takeaway products - Edit
The health food part of the store is quite small, but still stocks a really great range of products. The takeaway foods are amazing though. Lots of them are vegan and include sandwiches, cakes and pasties. The staff are really nice and helpful too. If only every town had a place like this. I can't recommend it enough.
Read morePros: Friendly staff, Vegan cakes!, Good range
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dropscone
Points +158
My favourite local shop! - Edit
I was surprised this wasn't listed on Happy Cow already so I submitted the info, hope it's okay to do a review as well...
Read moreI regularly go to this place for a take away lunch or to pick up wholefood staples such as fruit, beans and nuts (or perhaps a cheeky bar of chocolate). They often seem to get new products in to try out, and staff are friendly and helpful.
If you're going to get lunch from the counter my recommendations are the Mexican pasty (spicy beans and veg in tomato sauce in puff pastry), and the chocolate coated flapjack, which seems to contain a lot more interesting things than flapjacks normally do, such as coconut and dried fruit. The chocolate triangle cake is really good too, unfortunately for me that's not always vegan as they make it from the ends of the other cakes they've made, and have to save up enough vegan cake before a batch gets made.
I also like the cauliflower and potato pasties they do, and the tomato and garlic sos-rolls provided they're warm, as well as the falafel rolls with hummous and salad, or the nut burger rolls. The samosas seem to go down very well with a lot of people.
They're closed for the next couple of days for redecoration, and I've just passed by at gone 9pm, and the proprietor was still painting away, how's that for dedication? I think they'll be re-open from 24 March 2011.
Pros: Friendly staff, Well stocked for size of shop, Tasty take-away food
Cons: Sometimes crowded at busy times
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