Hendersons - Eat Better Live Better

A huge thank you to everyone who supported us in the local neighborhood Chili Cook-Off! 🎉 We’re thrilled to have gotten 3rd place with our vegan Chili. It was an amazing experience, and we’re so proud to show that plant-based can pack a punch! 🌱🔥

A big shoutout to Dougie from Lupe Pintos, all the competitors and everyone who came to taste our Chili for making it such a fun and special event! Can’t wait for next year!

🌶️It’s the Lupe Pinto’s neighbourhood Chilli Cook Off today!!🌶️

One of our favourite annual traditions and this year our lovely Cath is even wearing the official merch! It’s organised by the amazing + independent business Lupe Pintos. They have ten different local restaurants, bars and pubs compete for the chilli crown!

It’s crazy, chaotic and so much fun! Of course, we are proudly representing the vegans and vegetarians with our vegan chilli. Today’s a total team effort and everyone is contributing:

🫘Our head chef created a vegan 5 Bean Chilli topped with a spicy creamed corn, cashew sour cream, fresh kiwi, jalapeños + smoked pineapple tequila jam and a homemade tortilla crisp.

🌺Our bartender team came up with delicious drinks, including a Hibiscus Margarita made with dry hibiscus petals + syrup, Tequila Reposado and fresh lime juice!

🎊Our lovely front of house team, led by our fantastic Laura, is providing the professional + warm service we all love.

We’re also open for our usual lunch, although you might see lots of punters in colourful outfits enjoying themselves. Everything will be back to normal by dinner and we are looking forward to see you 🌱

🌱✨ Sunday roasts are back!! ✨🌱

Join us this weekend for a hearty, delicious Sunday Roast that’s bursting with seasonal flavours. Think perfectly roasted root veggies, Chef Anna’s awesome homemade seitan, rich, flavourful gravy, and of course our house Yorkshire puds — all made from the freshest ingredients. And a very important announcement, we also now have vegan Yorkshire puddings available!!

Whether you’re a lifelong vegetarian, vegan or just curious, come along 🌿🍽️

📍 Hendersons, Edinburgh ⏰ Serving from 12pm - 3.45pm 🌿

Tag your roast buddy and we’ll see you here! 👇

We're excited to invite you to V for Life's lunch club at Hendersons in Edinburgh this September! 🌱 For just £10, older vegans and vegetarians can enjoy a nutritious vegan lunch, make new friends, and connect with like-minded individuals. It's not just about the food – it's about creating a supportive community! 🥗💬

Reserve your spot today by calling 0131 202 1635 or emailing [email protected]. Don't miss this chance to be part of something special! ✨

📍 7–13 Barclay Place, Edinburgh, EH10 4JB

Our kitchen and front of house were having a right good time yesterday tasting some new dishes for our autumn menu! 🍁👩‍🍳👨‍🍳 It’s always great to come together and share our thoughts over some delicious food. These are just a few of the ideas we’re working on, and we’d love to hear from you too! Swipe through to see what might be on the menu soon. 🥗🍴

This also means it may be your last chance to enjoy some of your summer favourites before they make way for new creations! Let us know in the comments which dishes you are excited about and which current favourite you would miss! It will help us create a menu everyone will love. 🙌

At Hendersons, we’ve been serving up delicious vegetarian dishes since 1962 right here in Edinburgh. 🥬 Whether you’re in the mood for a hearty meal or one of our original cocktails, we’ve got something especially for you. Come taste the tradition with a modern twist! 🍸🍴

The Fringe is here and so are we to serve you our delicious vegan + vegetarian food.

For August, we have extended our opening times to make sure you have more time to eat in the evening. We also continue to have our weekday £10 lunch deal on, so you can get a delicious + quick bite to eat if you’re off to see some shows!

We’re super excited for this year’s Fringe and are looking forward to seeing you all.

Kitchen opening times:
Monday - Sunday
12 noon - 9.30pm

(With a one hour break from 4-5pm and last dessert + drink orders at 10.30pm)

Happy Festival to all of you and as always, lots of strength and perseverance to our fellow hospitality workers 💪

If you’re looking for a quick lunch during the Fringe, join us for our £10 deal. It’s quick, it’s healthy and most important, delicious!

This week our open sandwich is topped with Coronation chickpea, made with our homemade vegan mayo, apricot, mango chutney, pickled chillies, fresh salad + toasted almonds.

You can have it with either soup or salad and it will definitely fill you up 🥰

These are our irresistible Nduja + mascarpone arancini, handmade by our chefs who serve them on a whipped blue murder creme, with a delicious walnut + chervil pesto and hot honey.

As always, our chefs make sure that our dishes aren’t just full of flavour but also healthy ingredients.

For example our chervil pesto is made out of walnuts, slowly roasted to bring out all the flavour but maintain their healthy aspect. Walnuts are known to reduce Cholesterol and are full of Omega-3. Chervil on the other hand is full of minerals like calcium.

And although these are Nduja arancini, of course we use a vegan paste, which is made out Italian chillies. The great thing about chillies is that they are antioxidants, full of vitamin C and get your metabolism going!

We hope you’ll enjoy this scrumptious starter, which is also gluten-free!

Bringing the summer to you with this delicious Sicilian Caponata, toasted pine nuts, herby polenta cakes + green cashew sauce.

Caponata is a traditional Sicilian dish made out of aubergines, courgettes, peppers + other lots of delicious vegetables. We top it with our green cashew sauce that is also made with lovage grown in our back garden.

Caponata is often served alongside fish but we of course serve it with our delicious + crunchy herby polenta cakes that not only make this dish vegan, but also gluten-free.

It’s a really delicious summer dish and we hope you will come and try it at lunch or dinner with us soon ❤️

Good luck to the Scotland team tonight - we’re very proud and wish them all the best in Munich this evening! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

If like us you need some nutrition to help you with your pre game nerves, come and enjoy a haggis with us.

Haggis is not only Scotland’s national dish but also our most popular.

It was Barrie’s grandmother who developed the original vegan recipe in the post-war years - she was always very keen on creating meals out of local and healthy ingredients.

Haggis has always been an important meal in Scotland - making the most of the ingredients available - and Janet helped to translate this into a vegetarian & vegan version long before it was the norm.

We’re really proud to be still serving a dish that Barrie’s grandmother originally developed 60 years ago - of course there has been some small tweaks over the past, for example we serve it now with a vegan whisky tarragon sauce. However, we still make it completely from vegetables, pulses and oats - no meat substitutes required.

It truly is a dish ‘evolved from seeds of the past’.

One of our favourite times of the year is when is holding their annual conference in Edinburgh and we get to feed amazing artists and delegates!

For three days in a row, we’re supplying salads and hot food and while at it, get to visit some of the amazing music venues Edinburgh has to offer.

Wide Days is doing a lot for the Scottish music scene, the independent music venues and small businesses like us by running this conference - so thanks a lot for including us again this year ✌️

It’s not an easy time for any small and independent business at the moment and we’re so thankful we get to support one another in Scotland!

We have a big Sunday Roast Announcement for you!

From now on, you can join us every Sunday for our vegetarian + vegan Sunday Roast - full of homemade deliciousness.

Our roast includes our fantastic chef Anna’s specially created Seitan roast, herby roasted potatoes, buttered vegetables, homemade horseradish cream + wild mushroom gravy. For the veggie version, you’ll also get our yummy Yorkshire pudding.

And best of all, it is served all day on Sunday - so get yourself booked in for a special Sunday treat.

Absolutely honoured to be names as one of the best UK’s vegan + vegetarian restaurants. Especially among such wonderful company of other innovative and wonderful places!

If you haven’t paid us a visit yet, please do so soon ✌️

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We hope you will join us for one of our delicious + fresh cocktails this weekend like our Blackberry + Rosemary Sling made with local

We believe that if you’re dining out, you should get spoiled from the start - that’s why we have an extensive cocktail + mocktail menu full of fresh ingredients and deliciousness. All created by our fantastic team of bartenders.

If you’re having problems deciding - our lovely staff will be more than happy to help you choose.

Let us introduce you to our homemade seitan pastrami, coleslaw + mustard mayo sandwich. Our version of a New York pastrami sandwich - except it’s vegan of course.
You can enjoy this bad boy as part of our £10 lunch deal this week - the perfect treat for the Easter holidays.

The lunch deal is on Monday - Friday, 12 - 3.45 and we would love to see you!

Join us for a vegan + veggie Sunday Roast✌️

For this Easter Sunday, we have a very special meal prepared for you! Our chef Anna has created her own amazing seitan and is serving it with delicious roast potatoes, roasted vegetables, purple sprouting broccoli and a lush gravy.

Don’t miss out as we will have limited amounts and booking is advisable.

Let us know what you think - we might turn this into a regular occasion!

Hopefully see you on Sunday and hope you’re having a lovely Easter weekend!

There’s a new player in the game - our blue flower Earl Grey vanilla tiramisu.

This is the epitome of a light and delicious dessert - the perfect finale for a dinner at our restaurant.

Our pastry chef Mariana has created this dessert with Earl Grey which is giving this traditional dessert a beautiful floral twist - while also supporting another fellow small + local business.

And just in case you were wondering, the lady fingers are homemade + gluten-feee.

Join us for lunch or dinner - Monday to Sunday, 12-22pm to enjoy this absolute treat.

We mostly talk about our food here but we actually put as much love and dedication into our drinks.

From when we opened, we didn’t want the drink list just to be an add on but a continuation of our ethos and skills.

We therefore have an extensive list of original cocktails crafted by our amazing team of talented bartenders.

We love to use fresh fruit and herbs in our drinks and enjoy different pairings of flavour.

We also have a big selection of alcohol free mocktails and drinks to make sure everyone gets a treat!

Picture one: Fresh coriander + lime margarita
Picture two: Our Rhubarb Soda

We hope to see you this weekend ❤️

Our vegan Biscoff cheesecake is a real labour of love.
Our amazing pastry chef Mariana was experimenting a long time until she was happy with the perfect taste and consistency and her perseverance has really paid out. This delicious treat is now one of our most popular desserts - for our vegan, vegetarian + omnivore customers alike.
It’s the perfect example that eating vegan doesn’t mean you have to miss out on flavour or joy!

Chef Anna has been tidying up the beds in our wee kitchen garden this week and we are going to get some seaweed and compost in them to help get them fertilised and ready for the spring. We are going to focus on the edible flowers and fresh herbs that we use in our kitchen and bar mainly, as it is so good to have a fresh supply of these straight from the garden to give the best flavour.
We are so lucky to have our kitchen garden at the back of the restaurant and we hope one day to have an even bigger one.

Our sandwich of the day: our take on Sabich - a Middle Eastern sandwich with chargrilled aubergine, fava bean hummus, chutney, lettuce, and egg (non-vegan and vegan on request though!)

You are invited to Vegetarian for Life’s lunch club at Hendersons on Tuesday, 27th of February, 12-2pm.

The idea is very simple, come to lunch at Hendersons, enjoy our £10 lunch deal and meet other vegetarians and vegans to make new friends over discussing vegan & vegetarian food and lifestyle.

The lunch club is organised by the charity V for Life to connect older vegetarians and vegans - we are super excited to be hosting it again!

If you’d like to come, please let us know and also share with your friends and family members who might be interested but who might not see this post!

Thanks to everyone who shared a veggie / vegan haggis with us last week, it was lovely! 🫶

✨Vegan + Vegetarian Burns Night✨

There’s only a few more days until our Burns Night at Hendersons and we cannot wait!

Not only will we get to enjoy a delicious three course meal with Prosecco on arrival but also live music + poetry.

If you haven’t booked already, make sure to do so soon as we have limited capacity left.

Our special menu for the night will include:

Biscardo Millesimanto Spumante Prosecco or a homemade Hendersons mocktail on arrival

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Cullen skink with smoked tofu, Scottish seaweed + three cornered leek served with Company Bakery’s award-winning seeded sourdough

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Hendersons Haggis, neeps + tatties served with either a vegetarian peppercorn sauce or our plant-based whisky tarragon cream sauce

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Cranachan parfait, homegrown Hendersons raspberry + rosemary coulis, local whisky ice cream + Mungoswell flour shortbread crumbs

✨Closed Monday 15th of January for Staff Party✨

We wanted to let you know that we are closed today and back open tomorrow at 5pm due to our staff party.

After an incredibly busy festive season, we believe it’s really important for us as a team to get some time off together and a chance to let our hair down.

Our staff work really hard, especially during the times when other people are off to celebrate, so we want to make sure they also get some time off together, which is rare in hospitality.

We’re really sorry if you were wanting to eat with us today or tomorrow lunch! We will be back tomorrow evening with our delicious food and fantastic staff!

We’d also like to say a massive thank you to those who supported us throughout the last year and especially our team!

We hope you all have a fantastic day!

Hendersons x

If you’re trying Veganuary for the first time or if Veganuary is for you all year round, we’ve got you covered.

Our dishes are full of flavours, healthy ingredients and will instantly cure your January blues!

We also have a fantastic lunch deal for only £10 - so please come and support your local and independent business that serves vegan + vegetarian food all year round - not just in January ✌️

PS: and don’t forget our vegan + vegetarian Burns Night we’re hosting on the 25th of January

✨Hendersons Vegan + Vegetarian Burns Night ✨

We are super excited to be able to bring back our vegan + vegetarian Burns Night for the third time at Hendersons in 2024.

This year, we are collaborating with Slow Food Edinburgh, the global, grassroots movement that is all about linking the enjoyment of food with a commitment to community and the environment.

You will be able to enjoy a three course Burns menu, including of course, our Haggis, which we have been making in Edinburgh since 1962 - making it the World’s first veggie haggis.

On top of that, we will have poetry, song and the address to the Haggis from Fergus, and live traditional Scottish music from Euan Johnston.

Tickets are £44.50 per person and also include a glass of Prosecco or mocktail on arrival. They are on sale in our webshop here: https://www.hendersonsrestaurant.com/shop

We have two sittings, one at 5.15pm and one at 8pm, so get your ticket before they sell out!

We really hope you will join and and we are looking forward to celebrate the Bard together with you 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

UPDATE: thanks everyone for getting in touch, and for sharing the post, we have now got someone booked in! Look forward to telling you more about our Burns Night plans soon…

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Hey, we are looking for some local folk music in Edinburgh for our Burns Supper at Hendersons Vegetarian Restaurant.

It’s on the 25th Jan from 5-9pm. We have a poet / singer who will be also be performing already booked. Pay is negotiable and you get a free meal and a drink on the night. You could play 2 x 45 mins sets but we are very flexible. It will be a relaxed affair.

Would be lovely to hear from you if you are interested! Just DM us or send us an email…!