I know you all, read about now, Travelling Sophie, Leuven part 1 & Travelling Sophie: Leuven, part 2 & now, finally, in the end, we have Travelling Sophie, Leuven part 3, an all vegan post! Ha! First, I leave you with a few images of Leuven, in that day:
This is when you come out of the Tiensestraat, onto the Grote Markt! At your right side, The Sint-Pieters church!
My first stop, was this cool vegan organic clothing shop called: Hemp Made Address? Parijsstraat 14, 3000 Leuven. Open? Tuesday till Saturday from 10h till 18h.
Hemp Made: a cool vegan organic clothing shop, the only one in Leuven!
This is a very interesting vegan + organic clothing shop. A lot of the T-shirts for women & men, are a bit too normal for me. They look like shirts & pants that you would wair on music festivals when you were 15 or so but I also tried a few one’s on that would be great when you practise yoga. You have a man’s department & a woman’s department. All of the clothes are vegan & organic too. I bought 2 cool female shirts & each one of them costed me 29€. They are both made from bio-cotton & from hemp. They are of a great quality. Here they also sell vegan cloths from the Belgian brand: Uprise!
What is hemp good for, I hear you say?
- There are more than 25000 products that could be made out of hemp like paper, textiles, paints, foods & beverages, body products, building materials, eco-plastics, polymers, oils, etc….
- Hemp grows nearly everywhere, also in Asia & Africa.
- Hemp was used mostly for about 80% for clothing & in the textile industry, before the roaring twenties!!
- Hemp can always be ecological grown.
- Hemp is stronger than cotton, it absorbs water better & it is rigid.
- Hemp seeds are extremely nutritious! After soy beans, they are very high in proteins, but better digestible! The hemp seeds are rich in omega 3-6-9 & vitamin B.
- Hemp clothing is very comfortable. Hemp cloths are warm in Winter & cool in Summer!
- 1 t-shirt is made of van 55% hemp + 45% bio cotton, it can save more than 2500 liter (mostly drinkable) water instead of 1 normal t-shirt made from the normal cotton alone!
The beautiful Town Hall, situated on the Grote Markt!
Then, It was time for lunch! I was on my own today so I wanted to treat myself to a nice tasty vegan eco lunch @ The Loving Hut Leuven! Address? Tiensestraat 65, 3000 Leuven. You can’t book a table when you are alone or with 3 persons, only if you are with 4 persons or more!! Open? Monday till Friday from 11.30 h until 14 h & from 17 h till 21 h. Saturday from 12 h till 14 h & from 17 h till 21 h! Sunday’s closed! It is a more smaller tiny longer restaurant. You must order at the counter & pay there too. If you have an EVA card, you will get a discount of 5%. You can take drinks & desserts directly out of the fridge.They don’t sell any alcohol here! They also sell vegan dog & vegan cat foods from the brand Ami. A strange combination, I think! The only downside is that they have cute smaller white sitting stools but there isn’t a back for your back. If you sit there for a while, your back hurts a bit! :(
Lovely teas that you can drink or buy & lovely vegan organic chocolate chip cookies on the counter! To take-away too!
I was really hungry, so what would I choose from the limited Lunch menu? Let’s see,…;) In the evening, they have more choice & it is less-student like! Then, there are suggestions, written on the blackboard! :)
I chose the juicy Loving Hut soy burger!!! For just 6€, all vegan & organic too, even the toasted bread roll! Just check it out for yourself, hey, doesn’t it looks fabulous & appetizing too???
A Superb juicy vegan & organic soy burger for only 6€!
Now, let’s deconstruct it & check it all out:
Waw, hey???
On the outside of the top bun, were sesame seeds & the bun was toasted, inside of the top bun, was a lovely layer of their home-made vegan sour veganaise, topped with a big slice of fresh organic tomato, a few thinly sliced red onions rings, on top of the soy burger, some thin slices of gherkins, aka pickles, the juicy soy burger, shreded crispy iceberg lettuce, good & much tomato ketchup & a toasted bun! Divine! Superb! Waw even! I was stunned! The soy burger didn’t taste as a soy burger, no soy flavour what so ever! The burger looked like a real meat burger too! I gobbled it up nicely! :) Then, after a while, I was ready for a nice dessert, so what did I chose? Just look & see:
I chose a fresh mint tea & a lovely cake of the day!
I chose a fresh mint tea, in a large mug & lovely presented too. It costed me 3.5€. The cake of the day, was this fabulous large piece of airy light cake, filled with a soy crème fraîche & a stunning rich vegan chocolate hazelnut spread. The top ganache was melted chocolate with vegan cream & orange,…The cake slice was huge & pretty amazing, rich but light too! I was smiling all the way for a while,… :)
No, no, I won’t share it !!
There were other tasty looking desserts in their fridge like personal chocolate mousse pots, portioned tiramisu’s, a darker more heavy-looking chocolate tart & my cake! ;) Yummmm! They all look delicious, just see for yourself:
Tasty yummy vegan desserts!
I also looked at a new vegan baguette eaterie that recently opened in de Vital Decosterstraat 31, 3000 Leuven, called, V-Rex.( Veganosaurus Rex!! ) Open? Monday till Saturday from 10.30 h till 17 h!
V-rex! Vegan baguettes!
This is a tiny all vegan plant-based smaller bread shop, where you can eat at Midday or just till 17 h in the afternoon, your vegan sandwiches or vegan baguettes. I wanted to go there @ about midday , but there wasn’t anyone at the moment. I peeped through the window & it didn’t look cosy or cool at all. There was a light grey seating area with the same colour tables, all made of wood. When I walked past here again, at 16 h in the afternoon, there wasn’t anyone either,…Maybe next time, when I am visiting Leuven with a friend or with my husband, we will check it out!
So, my dear beloved friends, I hope you liked this last post, all vegan, about Leuven! If you are ever in the area, call me or give me a shout on my blog that you are coming to Belgium & we should meet in the loving hut or in de V-rex! xxxx :)
You might like:
1. Travelling Sophie: Leuven, part 1!
2. Travelling Sophie, Leuven, part 2!
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