Plates London

Plates London The Uk's only Michelin starred fully Plant-based restaurant and food development studio, London. By Chef Kirk Haworth and Sister Keeley.

Founded by siblings Keeley & chef Kirk Haworth Plates London is a forward thinking Restaurant, Creative Food Studio and Events operation championing Vegetable craft and premium plant-based experiences.

Banoffee, but not as you know it 🤎**you don’t want to miss this one 👇 …keep reading! This is Flavours of Banoffee with v...
12/06/2026

Banoffee, but not as you know it 🤎

**you don’t want to miss this one 👇 …keep reading!

This is Flavours of Banoffee with vanilla ice cream, cacao sponge, banana, candied pecans, toasted buckwheat & raw caramel.

PLUS…..For a bit of Friday fun and as this dessert is soon heading off the menu, we want to say goodbye with a special dessert moment giveaway!

The first person to guess which 2 ingredients will dominate our new dessert will win a free dessert experience for 2 on the summer terrace, with a drink of their choice, served by Kirk ☀️

Comment below, and good luck! ✨

10/06/2026

From our family table to yours!
Join us for staff dinner 🫶

We had an idea to share some easy at home style recipes that our team are cooking for each other during the week at the restaurant, with the hope that this helps with new ideas in your own kitchen.

If you find this helpful, let us know with a double tap and an encouraging comment for who’s up first with:

Aubergine stuffed with cashew cream cheese + red pepper sauce

Recipe below serves 2

Ingredients:
• 1 yellow onion
• 2 red bell peppers
• 1 garlic clove
• 1-2 lemons
• Handful parsley
• Bunch basil
• 2 large aubergines
• 500g cashews
• 200g breadcrumbs
• Nutritional yeast
• Salt & pepper
• Paprika
• Olive oil
• Unsweetened soy milk

Method
1. Soak cashews:
Soak overnight in double water, or quick-soak (boil 15 min or cover with boiling water 30 min).

2. Make red pepper sauce:
Dice onion & peppers.
Cook onion in olive oil (medium-high), add peppers + salt.
Lower heat, cover, cook ~25 mins until soft/jammy (add water if dry, uncover if wet).
Blend with a little olive oil.

3. Prep aubergines:
Slice lengthways (1cm thick).
Salt, place on tray, bake at 180°C for ~10 mins until softened.

4. Make cashew cream:
Drain cashews, blend with soy milk to thick, smooth consistency.
Season with salt, pepper, nutritional yeast, lemon juice, paprika (optional miso).

5. Make crispy breadcrumbs:
Mix chopped parsley, garlic, lemon zest + a little juice, salt, breadcrumbs.
Add olive oil until “wet sand” texture.
Fry on medium-high until golden and crisp.

6. (Optional) Basil oil:
Blanch basil ~1 min, ice bath, blend with olive oil + salt, then strain.
(Or just use fresh basil later.)

Assemble & bake
• Spread pepper sauce in a baking dish
• Roll aubergine slices, stand upright in sauce
• Fill with cashew cream
• Top with breadcrumbs
• Bake at 200°C for 10-15 mins

To Finish
Top with basil or basil oil and serve with rice, bread or a delicious summer salad 🌱🌞

02/06/2026

Summer calls for the right glass 🌞

We’ve picked a white, a rosé and an orange wine - three of our favourites for the sunny days ahead!

Find us on the terrace ☀️

18/05/2026

Continuing our exploration into the wonderful world of with

…ahead of our collaboration this Saturday with in our Food Studio 🌶️🍜✨

Tickets are sold out for this event, but stay tuned as we learn, discover, and share more in the run up to this first-time unique collaboration that will see the meeting of two very personal food styles.. 💚

15/05/2026

It’s Mental Health Awareness Week, and we wanted to share how important this is for us not just today but every day 🧘‍♀️🌱

To show our appreciation for the team’s hard work, we put together some little goody bags and held a team gathering to give everyone a moment to acknowledge each other:

A personal thank you note was shared with each member of the team - letting them know what makes them special and that they are enough! Along with some supplements , a detox shot, and calming night-time tea to take home.

Look after yourselves folks, and be kind, you never know what someone is dealing with behind the scenes 🫶

13/05/2026

Plates x AngloThai 🔥

A special event of maximalist flavour, celebrating two unique styles of cookery coming together for one night only:

Saturday 23rd of May 2026

Tickets go on sale tomorrow evening at 20:00 BST, via Plates-london.com

📍Location: Plates Studio, Shoreditch, London.
🍷 Tickets for the full discovery menu and drinks pairing is priced at £200 pp.
🌶️ The menu will be fully plant-based throughout.
〰️ Limited availability. We unfortunately cannot cater to dietary requirements / allergies on this occasion.

08/05/2026

All the flavours of Spring 💚

Jersey royal potatoes, loquat, mint, sweet-and-sour apricot - with bright, earthy, and refreshing notes that capture the essence of the season 🍑🥔🌱

Live on the menu now!

A new Spring dish live on the restaurant menu: Jersey royal potatoes, loquat, mint, sweet & sour apricot 🧡🤍💚〰️📖 Reminder...
04/05/2026

A new Spring dish live on the restaurant menu: Jersey royal potatoes, loquat, mint, sweet & sour apricot 🧡🤍💚

〰️📖 Reminder 📖〰️

Our reservations book is reopening this week!
On Wednesday 6th April we will go live @ 7pm GMT with our new reservation window for July - August. Set your alarms ⏰ we hope to see you soon x

29/04/2026

Welcoming in our new dessert ‘Flavours of Banoffee Pie’, inspired by one of Kirk’s favourite classic puddings 🍌

Unctuous textures and a little bit of nostalgia 😉

Live on the menu now!

25/04/2026

Unf_uck your Palate 3.0 - development update 🪐

Come behind the scenes at our food studio; a few days before we relaunch for 2026 (tomorrow 26th April)

For the passionate & curious:
Unf_cked is our explorative event series, now in its 3rd year, where we go deeper into the creative mind of our co-founder

We unpick the subject of flavour and our palates to challenge thinking and preference, presenting new ideas through a playful lens.. 〰️🧐👅💥🎢 🌈

25/04/2026

Unf_uck your Palate 3.0 - development update 🪐

Come behind the scenes at our food studio; a few days before we relaunch for 2026 (tomorrow 26th April)

For the food curious and obsessed:

Unf_cked is our explorative event series, now in its 3rd year, where we go deeper into the creative mind of our co-founder

We unpick the subject of flavour and our palates, to challenge thinking and preferences and present new ideas through a playful lens.. With the aim to understand really, why we like, choose and think as we do 〰️🧐👅💥🎢 🌈

Earth inspired, today and every day🌸🌱✨🪐 ⛰️
22/04/2026

Earth inspired, today and every day

🌸🌱✨🪐 ⛰️

Hands, shapes, Plates 〰️🌙🟤✋
20/04/2026

Hands, shapes, Plates 〰️🌙🟤✋

Hands, shapes and Plates 〰️🌙🟤✋
20/04/2026

Hands, shapes and Plates 〰️🌙🟤✋

Our Lion’s Mane dish has seen many iterations, tweaks, and adjustments as the seasons go by - here is its latest form! C...
15/04/2026

Our Lion’s Mane dish has seen many iterations, tweaks, and adjustments as the seasons go by - here is its latest form!

Caramelised lion’s mane, barbecued aubergine, salsa verde, romesco sauce, tokyo turnip & castelfranco

N E W  F R I E N D S ✨Meet our lovely neighbour Headway East London, based 5 minutes from our restaurant ❤️We were so ha...
08/04/2026

N E W F R I E N D S ✨

Meet our lovely neighbour Headway East London, based 5 minutes from our restaurant ❤️

We were so happy to meet them and discover the incredible work they do after their passionate workforce were looking for help with their community kitchen!

They’re an East London based charity & community centre supporting people affected by brain injury.

We have witnessed first hand how much they play a central role in over 800 survivor’s lives - and it was particularly wonderful to see everyone cooking together (which they do each day) ..chatting over recipe ideas, what they will cook next and teaching each other new things - which honestly was so beautiful to be a part of. Food & cooking is SO central to this operation and shows again its further powers for healing - a story close to our personal journey with Kirk & Plates origins ✨

Their aim is to empower brain injury survivors and to imagine new possibilities - ones filled with creativity, embracing diversity and backed by specialist support including therapies, advocacy, family & community support work, alongside their Day & Evening Services in Hackney.

At Plates, we’re committed to helping raise awareness, funds and provide support for their community kitchen ✨

N E W  F R I E N D S ✨Meet Headway East London , based 5 minutes from our restaurant ❤️They’re an East London based char...
08/04/2026

N E W F R I E N D S ✨

Meet Headway East London , based 5 minutes from our restaurant ❤️

They’re an East London based charity & community centre supporting people affected by brain injury.

We were so happy to meet them and discover the incredible work they do after their passionate workforce were looking for help with their community kitchen!

Witnessing first hand how much they play a central role in over 800 survivor’s lives was both inspiring and an honour, and it was beautiful to watch everyone cooking together as one.

Their aim is to empower brain injury survivors and to imagine new possibilities - ones filled with creativity, embracing diversity and backed by specialist support including therapies, advocacy, family & community support work, alongside their Day & Evening Services in Hackney.

At Plates, we’re excited to help the team to develop some new ideas in their kitchen this year and help raise awareness and funds through supporting their key events. More to come ✨

Once a dream shared between two siblings ✨and now… This moment belongs to our incredible team who deliver their best eve...
02/04/2026

Once a dream shared between two siblings ✨

and now… This moment belongs to our incredible team who deliver their best every day allowing us to maintain our star for 2026 ⭐ Thank you MICHELIN Guide (official)

Thanks to our suppliers, and every guest who has walked through our doors and believes in what we do - understanding our vision to reimagine plant-based and break down the barriers that can constrain it.

This recognition is something we do not take for granted - we are one of only 12 restaurants globally who have a star for cooking 100% plant-based. And that global reach helps us to welcome many more of you wonderful people from every corner of the world 🙌

This is only the beginning 🍽️ 🌱 🤍

A moment of theatre, tableside, served by our chefs..Slow cooked purple carrots, braised kombu, sansho pepper, passion f...
25/03/2026

A moment of theatre, tableside, served by our chefs..

Slow cooked purple carrots, braised kombu, sansho pepper, passion fruit & pear, frozen tarragon

19/03/2026

The miracle berry (Synsepalum dulcificum). A West African fruit, contains miraculin, a glycoprotein that temporarily binds to taste buds, making sour and acidic foods taste sweet. A miraculous property - would you like to try it?! 👀

This also gives you a peek inside our Unf_ck your palate events series that we just relaunched for 2026 💥🎢 👅 🍭

This ingredient is from one of our previous flavour explorations from Unf_cked.. and some of these discoveries naturally make their way into the creativity in the main restaurant.. 💛 Watch this space.

17/03/2026

Curiosity awaits.. 💫🪐

We are thrilled to share our experimental series Unf_ck your Palate is back for 2026!

Question your palate, set your taste buds alight, rethink everything 🔥

Our first 2026 dates will be released *tomorrow* 18th March at 18:30 GMT via our booking platform on our website, plates-london.com

The first event dates going live tomorrow are:
Sunday 26th April
Sunday 31st May

Welcome back to the flavour playground 🫦🎢

Limited Availability, 16 seats per event

Ticket prices include our 15 course exploratory menu and full drink pairing @ £210 pp for the 3.5 hour experience.

A change is in the air 🌱.and with it, our new sweet onion soup 🧅 It’s getting warmer and we’re feeling refreshed and rea...
05/03/2026

A change is in the air 🌱
.and with it, our new sweet onion soup 🧅

It’s getting warmer and we’re feeling refreshed and ready to lean into the new season 🌞

White onion, toasted almond & liquorice

25/02/2026

We sat down with one of our passionate chefs, meet Charlotte! 👋

Tune in to hear how plants benefit the mind and how important our wonderful guests are for the Plates atmosphere 💫

23/02/2026

The latest flavour combination for our bread is here 🙌✨

House laminated sourdough bread, whipped cultured butter & English herbs, roasted artichoke broth, toasted koji oil

…and introducing for the first time on here, the awesome Raul 👋 Sommelier. Here he discusses our drinks pairing for this course in the restaurant, a beautiful pair cider:

Eric Bordelet, Poire Cidre ‘Granite’ NV, Normandy

East London... where has the time gone! ⏱️✨We opened our first studio 7 years ago on Kingsland Road and we’ve never look...
16/02/2026

East London... where has the time gone! ⏱️✨
We opened our first studio 7 years ago on Kingsland Road and we’ve never looked back.

Here’s some images of our Restaurant when we first moved in over Spring 2024, from a different perspective captured by .harrison.photos

Also swipe for a new article on East London - thanks for highlighting our corner of the world ❤️👉

We are proud to be part of this community and love watching our inspiring neighbours keep getting better and better each year!

Shout out to our other local eateries fueling us brilliantly, but not featured in the article:
for the best acai bowls in London and SO much more fun health-focused food and drink.
for a PB breakfast / lunch with global influence, check out their new home on Cheshire street if you haven’t already 💛

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