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Vegetarian, vegan and raw cooking classes in Budapest

There seem to be a massive boom in cooking classes nowadays, or perhaps just facebook make me more aware of them?

Vegan & Gluten Free Cookery Workshop The Salt’n'Pepper cooking school organizes workshops where the chef of Napfényes Étterem is teaching culinary skills. Unfortunately info is only in Hungarian on their website, but email them for info if you are interested.
saltnpepper@t-online.hu
06 30 950 6422 1055
Budapest, Balassi Bálint utca 19
http://www.saltnpepper.hu/home

Vegan rawfood classes organised by Mannanatural restaurant: 3 hour classes taught at their restaurant in a specially built teaching and dining are upstairs, after “cooking” the students are enjoying a healthy dinner. For details and times check their website.
1054 Budapest, Hold u. 13.
+36-20-7769843
info@mannatural.hu
http://www.mannatural.net/index.php?oldal=fooldal

Lacto vegetarian classes: are organised by 108.hu which seems to be part of the Hare Krishna church. They offer a big range of classes from Indian to Hungarian vegetarian, special Christmas menus, ginger bread making with children and so on. Courses are taught by Hémangi dévi dászi populag vegetarian gastro blogger of http://www.vegavarazs.hu. The 108 school is only a short walk from budaveg vegetarian B&B!
info@108.hu
06-30-464 77601137.
Budapest, Szent István krt 6. III/12. 27-es csengő (Jászai Mari tér)
http://108.hu/fozotanfolyam

Isteni Ízek Főzőtanfolyam/ Divine tastes cooking course also organised by the Hare Krishna Church at the Indian cultural centre. The TV chef Mahadzsan dász is teaching the course, which is planning to start 15th February 2012
Bp.1039 Lehel u. 15.-17
06 30 872 1995
mahadzsan@freemail.hu

Raw vegan gourmand dinners Finally if you don’t want to cook but still want to fill your belly with vegan raw delights than Életkonyha/ Lifekitchen is your place. They offer themed vegan raw gourmand dinners in their home for small groups. These girls also make amazing raw “sweets” and cakes, have a look at Sületlenségek website.
003670-70-28187, or 003630-399-4912
info@eletkonyha.hu

http://www.elogourmet.blogspot.com/

https://www.facebook.com/EletKonyha.LifeKitchen

Are there more? If so let me know happy to add to our blog!

by zsofi

Napfényes Cukrászda -a vegan patisserie

We have been long time fans of the restaurant Napfényes Ízek- Sunny Tastes, they have superb vegan food and amazing vegan cakes. A few years ago they opened a vegan patisserie bit off the beaten track on the Buda side of the Árpád bridge. First they only sold entire cakes on order -which is great if you or a budaveg guest has a birthday- and delivered cakes to health food stores around town. We tried they vegan chocolate birthdaycake once and it was absolutely delicious and fooled non vegans thinking it was a “proper cream cake”!

A few month ago they opened a tiny shop right next door and now you can buy individual slices and ice cream. They are only licensed to sell cake, so it is not a real patisserie; there is no tea or coffee, and no seating area indoors, it is mainly to take away and to try the different tastes before you decide on your birthday or wedding cake.

I popped in the other day to pick up some treats for our family. There were four different ice creams and several different cakes, cream cakes and savoury ones. The lady was super friendly and we had a good chat about ingredients. All is vegan of course and they don’t use preservatives, colourants and artificial sweeteners. They use carob instead of chocolate, cane sugar instead of beet sugar, and they use spelt wheat in many cakes, they also had gluten free millet cakes. Also they prepare some cakes with xylitol which has an amazing list of benefits, I am so impressed that I decided to try using it at home too.

I got “krémes” which is a custard cake and sacher torte- a jam filled chocolate cake, both very traditional in Hungary. The ”krémes” was almost like a real one, really creamy, lovely taste, the sacher was also very delicious, though it didn’t remind us of the sacher but rather an English Christmas pudding. Yumm, just look at our daughter: