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Serves meat, vegan options available. Vibey restaurant/bar with DJs. Offers burgers including several vegan labelled burgers such as Moving Mountains, Bangkok bad boy burger and vegan Herd house special. Vegan sides include garlic & rosemary fries and onion rings. Open Tue-Fri 12:00-15:00, Tue-Thu 17:00-21:00, Fri 17:00-22:00, Sat 11:00-22:00. Closed Sun-Mon.

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1 Review

First Review by Nitrous_McBread

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Nitrous_McBread

Points +38

Vegan
30 Apr 2022

I'd have given 5 stars if this site had let me

This site takes off a star if a restaurant has non-vegan options - and I get it - but really, Herd does deserve five stars, for the simple reason that Bedford is a resolutely non-vegan town - so to have a place where 30% of burgers offered are vegan fairly blew my mind.

I've moved into the same street quite recently, a few doors down from them, and had only heard good things about Herd, so at a loose end, and hungry, I decided to wander down and make a burger order. The place has a wonderful, sparkly vibe about it, with some impressive-looking cocktails being created behind the bar and a DJ spinning some chilled tunes. It was heaving, but still they told me my order would be ready in 15 minutes - and it was.

And oh boy, it was proper joy. I went for the Vegan Herd House Special burger, which is one of those impressive-looking towers of wonderful things. Bun toasted just-so; lovely, juicy plant-based patty, just the right amount of lettuce and sauce, some strips of vegan bacon, and just for thrills, a few cheeky jalapeno slices. The kind of burger you just have to surrender to… I think I’m in love….

It came with garlic & rosemary fries, which were a revelation. It’s so rare to be served chips in Bedford that weren’t sitting frozen in a packet a few minutes earlier, but these were obviously from, y’know, actual potatoes. Gloriously crispy on the outside and fluffy as clouds on the inside. Skin on, too! Everything you could possibly want in a chip, and more.

Best of all, though, were the onion rings. How many times has the promise of oniony nirvana been scuppered when some woeful eatery has served up those horrible, claggy, bready, depresso-rings of minced onion and unhappiness? Not at Herd – these were monumentally delicious. Proper, whole, thick-cut circles of sweet, sweet onion encased in a transcendentally crispy batter. They fired off more endorphins in my brain than I realised I had.

Herd isn’t cheap, but excellent food is worth paying for, and it’s still probably cheaper than buying a good burger in London. It seems to have built up an awesome reputation since it opened here – I even heard one person describe it as the reason she’s stayed in Bedford. Apparently they have superb parties every now and then with a dancefloor in the basement. Gotta get me down to one of those for a boogie! In the meantime, thank you so much, Herd. I’ll be coming again, and those onion rings will never be far from my mind.

Pros: The onion rings, Delightful staff, Buzzy vibe

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