The best restaurants serving Vegetarian food in East Midlands

We were a large party (14) on Friday evening and the team at Cafe Roya could not have been any more brilliant and accommodating. Food and drinks were all amazing and served with a smile. Fantastic vegan options.

The Samos are great On every single occasion l have visited this shop l have had to wait for them to cook the samosas It is a total mystery why on earth they do not prepare more samosas in advance It is annoying for the customer and a waste of energy for the shop to be reheating oil Hardly a good business model

There are so few places in town to get tasty, healthy meals cooked from scratch. This place is a hidden gem with a great atmosphere and delicious home cooked food.

My most recent experience at the Leicester Buddhist centre was strange & not really peaceful, instead deeply perplexing. As someone who used to work at a vegetarian cafe opposite a Tibetan Buddhist centre in Oxford, & became friends with various Tibetan monks in the past, I anticipated being invited to the cafe as a welcome experience. Instead, the opposite was true. The first thing I noticed was the prevalence of Buddhist art, which included various semi pornographic topless females on the walls. Indeed observing the golden statues in the central meditation room, these also included two very clearly topless females besides a topless golden male Buddha. As a female myself, I personally find any sexualised depiction of the female body disrespectful, since I respect the value of the right to privacy of the body. Therefore I found it strange & unnecessary to see these figures in what was meant to be a spiritual space. The other Buddhist centres I've been to and meditated at, had prayer flags everywhere, and felt like more spiritual spaces. There were no semi-nude icons everywhere, like you'd found yourself in a topless massage parlour, justified by being called Buddhist. Even the service from the staff felt unprofessional & the prices too high. I'm more used to meditating in Buddhist centres with a focus on prayer and prayer flags rather than an exploitation of the female form, as an opportunity to extract money from people, so I wouldn't specifically choose to go to the Leicester Buddhist Centre again. As far as I was aware the lesson of Buddha was meant to focus on the spirit and on prayer and being a good person rather than on using the body, to extract money from people.Everyone is different evidently.. Edit: Addendum. After going another time, for whatever reason, & averting my eyes, the cappuccino I ordered didn't even arrive.. so I had to ask for it again. The female who was managing at the time came & apologised & was kind & polite & advised me the staff are mostly foreign volunteers who don't speak English well, & as a result sometimes get it wrong, so fair enough. Even if the staff have come to study Buddhism I felt uneasy about the covert sense of exploitation going on. In fact I did some research into different aspects of Buddhist culture we might not always consider in the idealised rose tinted lenses the religious framework covers up in the West when I got home. Unfortunately I discovered exploitative practices towards women is endemic, with even the Buddhist notion of "service" used as an excuse to justify the exploitation industry in places like Thailand... Even there happen to be Buddhist texts by monks describing "enlightenment" to be found in the local brothel. Unfortunately I have now been enlightened to realise exploitation is part of the traditional Buddhist culture, so I think I'll give the place a miss in future. If the owners can afford to buy golden statues of the topless female form to meditate in front of, but not afford to pay the mostly female staff, then I'll keep my finances to myself & avoid the place next time.

Favourite cafe in town, friendly chatty staff, great tea with a nice strength and colour!! And gorgeous cakes.

The person who served me and my brother was on his phone the whole time was rude quick and got the orders wrong tried to toast a sub with salad on it the nachos were a joke only has sauce and cheese on 1 crisp forgot sauce on the sub it was a complete joke

Always make mistake, miss food item and take forever. And to add insult to injury I order a masala naan, and this is their idea of masala naan… (see pic! Just rub some ketchup on a plain naan…?!) ridiculous and pathetic. You missed my paneer Parantha completely!