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Vegan restaurant Erpingham House is heading to Edinburgh for its third UK outpost, which is set to launch in late June.
It will open within the forthcoming Bonnie & Wild’s Scottish Marketplace, billed as the Scottish capital’s first food hall and located in the city’s St James development.
As with Erpingham House’s other locations, its Edinburgh site will serve a 100% plant-based menu that focuses on modern vegan cuisine and is spearheaded by group head chef Meg Greenacre.
Erpingham House was founded by entrepreneur Loui Blake and footballers Declan Rudd and Russell Martin in 2018, and launched its first site in Norwich.
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Loui Blake, who runs the plant-based Norwich restaurant, Erpingham House. He has changed his rules on paying for work experience following a complaint that provoked a social media backlash.
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The owner of a Norwich vegan restaurant has agreed to pay for trial work shifts after suffering an appalling social media onslaught.
Loui Blake, who runs several businesses in the city including Erpingham House, in Tombland, was attacked on Twitter after details of the unpaid shifts were revealed.
It came after 16-year-old Tobias Conway was given a trial session at the restaurant working as a kitchen porter. His mother Jenny said he worked for nearly four hours without being given any food - and did not get the job.
Deliveroo motorbike riders in Norwich. Picture : ANTONY KELLY
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Restaurants are turning to virtual kitchens to expand and adapt during Covid, leading to a raft of new takeaways diners may not know are run by familiar brands.
Sometimes called ghost or dark kitchens, they don t have a set space for eating in, often share a kitchen with another business and generally focus on online deliveries or collections.
There are 200 listed on delivery website Deliveroo in the east of England, and a spokesperson said since March 2020 the number nationwide has doubled, up to 7,000.
Supporters say they allow restaurants to try new menus and concepts with fewer risks and costs, grow their online presence and, during lockdowns, stay afloat.