London Calling
London Calling Community-oriented restaurant Plant Matter Kitchen brings together local businesses and a return to home cooking to create the most wholesome vegan food that the other London—London, Ontario—has to offer. Read More
Bound To The Basics: A Devotion To Natural, Authentic & Organic Eating
At Plant Matter Kitchen, we believe that in order to become our healthiest selves, we have to revert back to the basics and get in tuned with the environment around us. This approach to cooking, eating, and living is implemented—and tasted—in every meal that we cook and serve at Plant Matter Kitchen. STEP BY STEP Plant Matter Kitchen chefs prepare dishes as they’re ordered and use only the freshest ingredients. Nothing comes from a box, a can, or a jar. All ingredients are organic and arrive at our kitchen in their rawest forms—from local farms. The kitchen’s transparent, open concept allows guests to see exactly how their salads, wraps, and pizzas are being made—step by step, ingredient by ingredient. CHANGE IS UPON US “People are waking up,” says Glenn Whitehead,…
Wortley Village Video
This video takes a look at London's Wortley Village, a little town in the middle of a city. Read More
#PMKVeganWarrior: ABBY MCCUAIG
Passionate. Dedicated. Advocate. A LEADER OF THE CAUSE Abby McCuaig is an animal rights activist who sees the same liveliness, love, vitality, and yearning in the eyes of pigs as she does in the eyes of her dog. Abby wakes up at 4:00am on multiple days of the week to bear witness. Her activism gives voice to the voiceless animals on their way to slaughter, which began by her attending a vigil at Fearmans Pork Inc. with the Toronto Pig Save group. Abby says: “As soon as I saw the impact that even just being there could have, I knew I had to be out there every single opportunity I had.” Abby has adjusted her life and work to dedicate herself full time to her activism. She travels to educate…
PMK’S MULTI-LAYERED PHILOSOPHY
At Plant Matter Kitchen, every meal served is seasoned with multi-layered philosophy that extends beyond our kitchen. Vegan + Organic + Local + Quality By serving local, fresh, and organic food and preparing almost everything fresh every single day, we ensure that you only get the best possible ingredients prepared with care in a healthy, fulfilling way. We serve vegan food that is top quality, cruelty free, locally sourced, 100% organic, and always plant-based. Ethical Ingredients & Employment Our passion to serve only the best ingredients begins well before we begin our food prep, by ensuring that every staff person at PMK is fully supported with fair and equal corporate and social employment practices, and is fully engaged—mentally and physically—in the work of creating meals for our customers. Pure Water…
INTRODUCING: Plant Matter Kitchen’s #PMKVeganWarrior Campaign
Plant Matter Kitchen loves the Vegan Warrior community! WE ARE VEGAN WARRIORS Raising awareness and changing the world through passion, dedication, and compassion... you inspire us every day! We recently read that there are enough vegans out there today that if each one if us changed the minds of only 10 people, then the world would be vegan in 5 years! It's doable. But, it isn't easy... So, we wanted to take a moment to say THANK YOU… For your early mornings. For your bravery. For your dedication. For staying strong. For standing up for the voiceless. For everything you do. For changing the world. GIVING BACK, TO VEGAN WARRIORS Every month, we’ll take a moment to recognize one of our community’s Vegan Warriors through our new PMK VEGAN WARRIOR…
DOCUMENTARY REVIEW: FOOD MATTERS
“Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food” ~ Hippocrates (460-370 BC) ~ From pesticides to pharmaceuticals, in Food Matters, a host of medical doctors, journalists, advocates, and health professionals break down how the growth, consumption, and distribution of our food affects our health and well-being. After watching this life changing documentary, here are the 8 major takeaways that made us think: DISTANCE: Dr. Victor Zeines, D.D.S, M.S., Holistic Dentist and Nutritionist, says that by the time we shop for our food, it’s at least a week old—at best. He encourages us to think about how old our food is; how far in distance it has travelled before we bite into it and how many nutrients can still be viable given its age. PESTICIDES: Charlotte Gerson,…
A collaborative approach to vegan cuisine
Plant Matter Kitchen’s menu aims to recreate “old world favourites” without the use of animal products. Read More
Veganism + Athleticism = MAC DANZIG
Mixed Martial Arts fighter. Ultimate Fighter Champion. Photographer. Father. Vegan. MAC DANZIG. THE MAKING OF MAC On the basketball court and the soccer field in his younger years, and at the skate park in high school, Mac was always into sports as a child. His passion for athletics eventually lead him to become a Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighter at the turn of the millennium. Mac competed as a lightweight in several MMA promotions, most notably the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). He participated in and won the 6th season of The Ultimate Fighter, defeating Tom Speer. He also won Fight of the Night three times and Knockout of the Night once, along with other King of the Cage, Extreme Challenge Trials, and Gladiator Challenge competitions. But, Mac always left his…
Vegan is Big
London, Ontario is rapidly becoming a leader in the Vegan Movement. A year ago things were happening, but today, the movement is exploding. London now has: 2 fully vegan restaurants: Plant Matter Kitchen and Glassroots A vegan food truck: McVegans A soon-to-open cafe: The Ground Up Organic Cafe 3 vegan bakeshops: The Boombox Bakeshop , Organic Works Bakery , and Naturally Vegan A vegan cheese company: Nuts For Cheese A vegan online store and bricks & mortar store: Globally Local A vegan online store: One Stop Vegan Shop 2 vegan societies: Western Ontario Vegan Society and Fanshawe Vegan Association 2 activist groups: Animal Liberation Alliance London and London Chicken Save 2 local farm sanctuaries: Cedar Row and FrogHollow Not to mention the rapidly growing list of vegan-friendly options around almost…
