Stem & Glory Broadgate Circle

Good vegan restaurant with nice bright atmosphere. Visited on Friday evening but the place was not busy. Korean tacos as an appetiser was yummy and beautifully decorated. The main course, Gnocchi, was alright - it was very filling and sauce did not have as much gorgonzola flavour as expected. Staffs were friendly and service was good.

For more vegan food reviews, follow our public list here on Google + TikTok & Insta @vegancinni🌱 🌹We're still thinking about this Valentine's day meal we had at @stemandglory Broadgate🌹 🌮The restaurant offered a special menu for the night. We started our dinner with spicy Korean 'fish' tacos and two delicious mushroom bao buns. Both were absolutely delicious, but the bao buns were just top notch - so tasty and perfectly juicy! 🍛We then had a 'beef' bourguignon as one of two mains. We found it a bit bland, but very filling and warming. The other main was a 'sea bass' dish and it was the absolute star of the night. The fish tasted so real, and the sea flavours blended perfectly well together. 🍰We closed the dinner with a selection of desserts including a cheesecake, chocolate truffles and white chocolate panna cotta. The panna cotta lacked flavour and was a bit of a miss, but the other desserts made up for it, leaving us overall happy and full. 💐Cinni tip: you should definitely consider this restaurant for Mother's Day - they have a separate menu, which we are sure will be as good as the one we had! 🌱 Fully vegan: yes ♿Accessible: 💰Price: £40-£50 for a 3-course dinner 🏮Vibe: modern and elegant 💻Laptop friendly: no 🌾GFO: yes 🐕Dog friendly: no 🏕️Outdoor space: yes 📦Delivery/Takeaway: no 🚾 Toilet: yes

Fantastic option for Vegans and great experience for non-ve as well to discover new flavours! We were lucky to have the place to ourselves before the rush of the dinner service and were able to discover their menu. Would I take my vegan friends there again? Absolutely! And I recommend. The decor is lovely, it was nice, warm and cosy, and although it is winter and we haven’t used it the terrace looked amazing with comfortable seating I cannot wait to try on warmer days. Do I think it was exceptional vs any other restaurant? This is way too healthy for my personal taste and whilst the service started up fantastically it wasn’t the best ending. I had to chase to get plates cleared out, order dessert and a refill on my drink - being the only guests it would have made sense to get the table cleared out before having to chase to order dessert. I know we had to leave the table at 6.30 and would have understood to be hushed out, but instead from 5 or 5.30 we were simply ignored/left there with empty dirty plates and empty glasses on our table. I saw them as recurring theme in reviews: the pancakes. Ours weren’t soggy. They were nice although the sauce was on the salty side, and there wasn’t any issue with the texture. Not our favourite dish because the gnocchi and broccoli have stolen the spot as stars of the show. For having tried most of the small plates, my friend and I agreed on the gnocchi being our favourite, bang bang broccoli and the cauliflower too. The mushroom has not been my favourite, whilst my friend enjoyed it, to me it was definitely not how I like my mushrooms cooked/texture. As alternative for scallops and in the tacos it was definitely a let down for me. I like my veggies soft and tender and it felt more on the raw chewy side. It was impossible for me to bite in the tacos (some would argue that it is fancy enough to have sticked to the knife and fork, but it is tacos for *insert your favourite polite swearing here*)- just a personal taste. The crème brûlée divided us: my friend absolutely adored it. Too much jam on it for my taste. To conclude, experience vs a normal restaurant I would give it 3/5 But compared to other vegan establishments I have tried I’d say it is a solid contender hence the better rating despite it not being to my taste, it fairly deserve recognition!

We went on Valentines night for the set menu and the food blew us both away. I just wish I had the stomach capacity to try everything on the menu because I couldn’t help but lust after everyone else’s dishes as well as my own. Valentines night is one of the busiest nights of the year and yet the service was still impeccable. We never had to wait to get another drink or get our plates cleared I cannot fault the incredible level of food and service. Highly highly recommend.

The food was surprisingly good, when eating plant based food in restaurants I usually thing they are to sweet, but wow this was really good! I'm looking forward to the spring so I can come back and enjoy the outdoor seating which looked really nice. Cons: (i'm still giving them five stars because I think the food was good and we need more plant based options! :) ) I didn't like the interior because it felt kinda cheap and the music they played was just weird, it was like commercial pop/rock? The service was just weird, on arrival it was almost empty and they said that the only table they had left was the one closest to the door (cold evening = cold winds every time the door opened) but the next 4 couples that arrived after us didn't have a booking either but they were seated further in the restaurant. We asked the waiter what she recommended and she just mentioned she was kinda new and hadn't tried everything, that's of course ok, but I think it's kinda weird. Make it easy, mention one dish that you like and or mention one that is popular?