• The Imperial

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Serves meat, vegan options available. A pub that bakes pizzas behind the bar in a traditional pizza oven. Has vegan cheese. Staff is knowledgeable about veganism and will substitute ingredients. Open Tue-Thu 12:00-23:00, Fri-Sat 12:00-00:00, Sun 12:00-22:00. Closed Mon.


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6 Reviews

First Review by Rosa and Joe

kmoffatt

Points +172

Vegan
19 Feb 2023

Cosy atmosphere

A cosy pub with warm friendly atmosphere. Pizza has an amazing wood fired crust. Beers are excellent

ThomasCoe-Brooker

Points +44

Vegan
15 Mar 2020

Proper Vegan Pizza!

Honestly some of the best vegan pizza I’ve had and a great selection of craft beer too (all the in house “Brewing Brothers” ones are vegan). Always a great, busy atmosphere and I’ve never waited more than 15 minutes for food!

Brightonvegan

Points +24

Vegan
05 Feb 2019

Really great vegan pizza

Popped in tonight for pizza as we heard they did vegan cheese. We were really impressed. Great choices, didn't mind us swapping bits and pieces to make our own pizzas and reasonably priced. We will definitely be visiting again, I think you would struggle to find better vegan pizza in Hastings.

Pros: Nice atmosphere, Dog friendly

Rosa and Joe

Points +570

Vegan
08 Jul 2018

delicious pizza!

Brilliant place that does at least two delicious vegan pizzas at any time (including melty vegan cheese - violife?) Really great pizza base and great toppings. Some of the very best vegan pizza we've had. Their own beer was vegan (or at least, the one I tried was), and they always know which beers are vegan (usually several). Lovely pub and very friendly people who don't make you feel strange for being vegan!

Update: in our opinion this has gone downhill in the last few months since the pizza chef left. So we've reduced from 4 to 3 stars. Pizza is still nice and they still do vegan options but far less consistent - eg once one of the pizzas came very burned - and it's odd they charge an extra pound for vegan cheese when every vegan option means leaving off 2-4 other things.

Further update July 2018 - original pizza chef is back! and the pizza has gone back to its previous fantastic quality. They still charge more for vegan cheese, and the menu has no obvious vegan options so you need to have a chat with them, but we resent it much less now that its delicious again

Updated from previous review on 2017-08-07

Pros: very good vegan pizza, Delicious vegan beers, Vegan cheese and interesting pizza toppings

Cons: unfair charging, inconsistent pizza

Mermitate

Points +138

Vegan
16 May 2017

Delicious vegan pizzas

The Imperial's pizzas are great. They're a good size and use really tasty toppings. The staff are friendly and the service is always friendly and the pizzas arrive quickly.

They serve a good selection of beers (not sure if they're vegan) and have a large choice of soft drinks (some of which are vegan).

The only minor complaint I have is they only offer a vegetarian pizza as standard, and charge an extra £1 for the vegan cheese, even though you're not having cow's cheese.

Pros: Good fast food, Cool place to spent time in, Not expensive

Cons: Charge extra for vegan cheese

ChristieDelaney

Points +45

Vegan
30 Apr 2017

Hidden gem

Found this on happy cow after staying at the Bay Tree (vegan B&B) just up the road. Absolutely fantastic! They serve vegan cheese on their pizzas and have great craft beer if that's what you're into. Also worth mentioning that they are dog friendly. We had an amazing time would highly recommend!!!

Pros: Vegan cheese, Craft beer , Get the vegan thing




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