PLANT SHACK Shoreditch

Cold-pressed juice, smoothie bowls and vegan bakes

Juice does the heavy lifting here. PLANT SHACK Shoreditch is entirely plant-based, and the counter is built around cold-pressed juices, smoothies and smoothie bowls, with cleanse programmes for anyone who wants to take it further than a single glass. The pastries are all vegan, which removes the usual scanning of labels for what is safe to order.

The rest of the menu follows the same logic: superfood bowls, brunch plates, sandwiches and light meals built from whole ingredients rather than substitutes pretending to be something else. Coffee is served, but treat it as one strand of a plant-based café rather than the centre of the operation, since the house does not build its menu around a named roaster.

A small Shoreditch room with an award for its design

The café sits in the Great Eastern Street and Charlotte Road stretch of east London, which sets the tone: creative, busy, design-literate. The room answers it with restraint, compact and clean, in natural tones, with plenty of greenery and a layout that avoids clutter. It won Best Café Design at the 2026 London Coffee Festival Awards.

That shapes the visit more than it sounds. This is a calm, efficient stop for a juice, a bowl or a light plant-based lunch rather than a room for long lunches, and the brand has been growing since 2019 by opening rooms that look and work like this one. Each new site is presented as another member of the same community rather than a branch, which is the tone the Shoreditch café keeps.

Build the order around a juice

Start with a cold-pressed juice, which is what the house does best and the reason the counter is arranged the way it is. A smoothie is the richer alternative, and a smoothie bowl turns the same idea into something eaten with a spoon rather than drunk on the way out.

Add a vegan pastry if the visit is short, or move to the food side for brunch, a sandwich or a superfood bowl if it is not. For a longer plan, the cleanse programmes take the juice side well beyond a single order. Whatever the shape of the visit, build outwards from the juice rather than treating this as a coffee shop that happens to be vegan.