Good coffee. Good food. Good for the planet. Serving Essex good coffee and 'accidentally' converting people to oat milk since 2022.
We're not here to be preachy, we're just here to serve really good food and coffee that just happens to be vegan.
We serve up coffee, breakfast, brunch, lunch, treats, and the occasional event thrown in for good measure. The kind of place you pop in for a coffee and accidentally stay for food.
How it started
Plant Faced opened in 2022 as a small family-run café, started by Harriet and her dad Stephen. Harriet brought 10+ years of hospitality experience, whilst Stephen joined the industry for the first time, bringing plenty of passion, (and very strong opinions!)
One thing they completely agreed on from day one: if we're doing this, the coffee has to be great, REALLY GREAT!
We didn't arrive with all the answers. We learned a lot along the way (and we're still learning). What we did have was a shared belief that vegan food should be exciting, comforting, and properly satisfying, not just an afterthought.
Since opening, we've:
- Baked over 18,000 cookies!
- Served a frankly alarming amount of oat flat whites
- Made a surprising number of people rethink their relationship with cow's milk
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Had customers travel ridiculous distances just to try Stephen's tofu scramble
(recipe still classified)
