The Green Rocket Cafe

Bath is awash with cafes and restaurants to delight shoppers with hamburgers and bacon butties. However, if it’s veggie options you’re after, you might struggle. But not all hope is lost, as perched on Pierrepont Street is one-year-old vegetarian and vegan paradise: The Green Rocket Café, where you can tourist-gaze whilst munching on a healthy dish. Celebrating success after winning the Bath Good Food Awards for Best Café Food, its brightly painted walls and central location seemed too tempting not to try. 

The menu changes to offer something new and exciting, using seasonal and local produce, including Honeys Cider. I opted for one of their new freshly squeezed veggie juices which was a popular carrot, orange and ginger concoction. Almost all of the meals on the menu are vegetarian and vegan so pop in for a homemade yummy falafel sandwich, a mushroom burger with cashew cheese or tuck-in to healthy courgette spaghetti for mains. The fantastic selection of veggie options with a twist is unbeatable; you won’t be eating another mushroom risotto here.

For starters there is tasty homemade soup, (often an exciting blend like beetroot, ginger and carrot) or the flavoursome pumpkin and celeriac samosa. The newly-added gluten-free vegan sausages are now part of their full-English breakfast too – now that is enticing. 

What should you expect? ‘Interesting, approachable food in a relaxed environment,’ says the chef and owner, Phil. That’s exactly what you get.