Homeslice

By Eve Tudor

As an editor I get invited to lots of places, some good, some not so and some inspiring.

I was very lucky to have been invited to the new Homeslice in Shoreditch last month and although the restaurant isn’t new, what they are doing is! It’s 100% plant based and damn it was good!

My lovely vegan friend and I sat down and immediately ordered a couple of Negronis (they are vegan too, right?), as we checked out their menu, and honestly, you’d not know how it was vegan with the array of food that was going to go on my pizza, but I was very excited. Being a meat eater myself I honestly wanted to try the ‘meat’ balls to see how they fared. Let’s face it, this was a great test to see how they would do. They were the Lemon and Garlic ‘Meat’ Balls with a Basil Fondu.

Now Homeslice makes huge pizzas so you can have half with one topping and half with another. Which of course we absolutely did!! I couldn’t come all this way and not at least taste more than one topping! So, we had fennel ‘sausage’, smoked tomatoes, spinach cream with lemon and thyme panagratatta.

I don’t want to repeat myself so I’ll review both pizzas together as I don’t think I could be more impressed by the flavour combinations of both toppings.

Although both sides had meat substitutes, I was fascinated to see how they fared as I don’t think, as a meat eater, that anyone has come close to what is maybe the desired texture or flavour of real meat. Personally, much as I love vegan food, I don’t care much for a substitute, but these blew my mind. Both the ‘meat’ balls and the ‘sausage’ had a great texture and each of them had the most incredible flavours. I didn’t even think about anything else other than that they were delicious and worked perfectly with the other aspects of the slice.

Those ‘meat’ balls!! I wished I could have had a bowl of just those! The spinach cream was just delicious but honestly that panagratatta was TO DIE FOR!!! SO HAPPY!!

Both pizzas where an absolute joy to eat and I can’t wait to try more. This is how you make incredible plant-based food!! All of their ingredients are fresh and delicious. Their flavour combinations are 100% on point. AND there are no greasy gross feelings afterwards. Just the pure joy of another day being awesome and doing good for the planet.

PS. Smugness not included. But definitely earned!