Nord Coast Coffee Roastery
Nord Coast Coffee Roastery you visit for the coffee – carefully prepared with high-quality beans and served black or with Oatly barista oat milk (the best coffee milk that exists). This cappuccino tasted amazing! If you also want to enjoy a good breakfast, they have three options that can be prepared vegan: a pitaya bowl (which also is gluten free), a quinoa salad and, which I chose, an acai bowl. We always have the problem that the smoothie bowls you order have too little topping and granola, which was the case at this café as well. But the acai bowl itself was good, although a bit too sweet. But it was very beautiful prepared, and you really felt taken care of from the staff, even though it was full, which otherwise can make anyone stressed. So, if you just want to enjoy a nice time with a good cup of coffee, this is the place to be!
Nord Coast Coffee Roastery, Deichstraße 9, 20459 Hamburg
Le Crobag
Ever struggling around hungry in a train station without finding anything proper to eat? Yeah, we too. Only that this time, at Hamburg Hauptbahnhof (the central station), we found something that even tasted very good! At Le Crobag they had two baguettes with delicious basil tofu with fresh tomatoes, (unfortunately no picture, we were too hungry) and even vegan, creamy chocolate muffins to indulge as a Sunday dessert. If it is nice weather outside, we’d suggest you find a bench in the city and enjoy it there. Or if you are
Happen Pappen
Another star we found in Hamburg is Happen Pappen! It is a small, all vegan place with an often-changing menu. We chose a lasagne with different veggies and a thyme-béchamel sauce with loads of salad, which was super good! As you can see, we were too hungry to remember to picture it first, but as the portions were quite generous, we could leave with full stomachs. Behind the lasagne, you can see a bit of an Indian curry with zucchini, eggplant, chickpeas and kidney beans, which tasted better than any other curry we’ve tried in Berlin (as we are big fans of Asian cuisine, this should say a lot). Now, as we also have a sweet tooth, we had to try one of their cakes. The choice fell on the gluten-free carrot cake. It tasted good, but the consistency was not the best, it was not that fluffy or creamy as it should be. Most likely because it lacked gluten, which makes it harder to create a nice consistency. Altogether, as we were so impressed by the main courses, the service was great, location small and cosy, we would for sure revisit it – and you should too!
Kiez Curry
Late night, lost at Reeperbahn and nowhere to eat? Only, there is somewhere you can fill your cravings for vegan fast food. The name is Kiez Curry and you can find it just a block away from the main street.
For you that aren’t familiar
Pizza Bande
One of the best surprises in Hamburg was Pizza Bande, a pizzeria near Reeperbahn, where you have a free choice of toppings that you want to put on your pizza. However, we chose from their weekly changing “special” pizzas – and these where no classic vegan Calzones or boring Vegetarianas. It was a vegan tuna pizza with seaweed and coconut milk, and a Mexican pizza with all the traditional toppings such as minced “meat”, kidney beans, corn and pineapple (to all the pineapple-on-pizza-haters out there: YES, you can have everything on pizza, fruit as well!). Both did, of course, include vegan “cheese”. The tuna pizza was outrageous, we’d even go so far to call genius! Combine the fishy taste of seaweed and “tuna” with sweet coconut milk? Brilliant! This was for sure one of the best pizzas we ever had. The Mexican pizza was also super tasty, just what you expect from a Mexican pizza – but that is quite hard to find without meat. We assure you, these pizzas were something we really enjoyed. A long time later, they keep popping up in our daily food dreams. Perhaps we should book another trip to Hamburg soon?
