Bristol Vegans originally surfaced in this city way back in 1994 when Tim from Yaoh (although back then he was running the Hemp Shop in Colston street in Bristol) called a meeting in McCreadies veggie cafe on Christmas Steps. The meet was attended by himself, and Helen and Keith from the then still functioning Bristol Vegetarian group, but that was that. Bristol Vegans receded slowly into the gloom and fog of that particularly Dickensian part of Bristol (Christmas Steps that is) only to return with a vengance in April 2006 when Ellen and Paul combined to make a local group once again. The first dinner we had as the current Bristol Vegans was at Cafe Maitreya in Easton, where over 20 of us met to basically eat, drink and make merry. the group continued to meet on a regular basis every month or two, with memorable visits to Theos in Southville (or somewheresouth of the river, anyway) , Cafe Kino (twice now, mind), Krishna's Inn (venue for Wolrd Vegan Day Nov 1st two years running), Ellen and Jools place (wicked, both times), Kate's gaff (scary part of town, excellent day though - St Patricks Day, loads of green food - don't ask) plus a couple of sessions down the King William boozer in town. The group is friendly, well attended and completely not up itself and very welcoming for new people to come and join, anyone who's intererested in vegan veggie food , drink and great company will enjoy these meets no end. The group has over 100 people subcribed to the monthly or so emails about the next meet, andof course you can also keep up to date with alll the latest news here at this website - see home page! Most times there's about 15 - 30 of us. New ideas/places to eat/gather etc always welcome Bristol Vegans also recently excelled themselves by turning out in force to help assist with the smooother than smooth running of the 2007 Bristol Vegan Fayre, which was massive and saw over 9,000 people there over two days. The whole team were superb, but Ellen, Kate and Rich deserve special thanks for their wholehearetd and supreme efforts.Thanks to all the group for making it such a bubble, contact ellen for more info

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