London's First Vegetarian Restaurant

The Oxford Street home of lentil cutlets and porridge.

Vegetarian restaurants might feel like a relatively new phenomenon, perhaps borne of the environmental and hippy movements of the 1960s. In fact, London got its very first veggie restaurant as early as 1879. And not just one: they popped up like radishes in the late Victorian era. In today’s email, we’ll get our teeth into this veritable beanfeast.