Topaz Cafe - Another Great Lunch and Their Christmas Menu

If you saw this recent blog post you'll know that we are big fans of Topaz Cafe in Ashton. This veggie cafe is part of the Mind Centre in Ashton Under Lyne and serves up beautiful fresh, veggie food with lots of the ingredients grown on their own allotment or sourced locally.


On a recent visit Matt went for this colourful meze whilst I had stuffed pepper. One of the things I love about this place is that they will cook to order veganising vegetarian dishes and in this case omitting the chilli for me. It was still full of flavour though and my pepper was stuffed with tofu in a homemade pesto sauce.


We noticed that Topaz had started advertising their Christmas offer. They are doing Christmas lunches through December and also this one off special evening event on Thursday 18 December. We've booked our tickets and are looking forward to sampling three courses of delicious vegan Christmas food.

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  1. All Consuming2 December 2014 at 16:23

    Yum, yum, yum!

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  2. Panda With Cookie4 December 2014 at 00:04

    That's awesome they're doing a special dinner.

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  3. Joey4 December 2014 at 10:10

    Hooray for anyone that will cook to order - there's so many times I just want to say 'could you leave the cheese off?' or whatever, and it seems it's a big thing. I love the look of the mezze.

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