Toucan Wholefoods Shop & Cafe (Naturalife Wholefoods) — Restaurant in England

After years of enjoying the amazing inspirational food at Touchan I arrived with hungry but with confidence that I was to experience another wonderful meal here. However, I was disappointed to learn that it had changed hands. We visited yesterday. The revamped eating areas are lovely as is the new owner. I noticed immediately that all the fabulous cakes had been replaced with tea cakes, scones and some soggy looking flapjack type bars. Worse still, the food was dreadful, it was the complete opposite of previous food enjoyed there. The presentation of our dishes was at best boring, taste and texture...awful. My partner had the Shepherds Pie with vegetables. As a retired chef he is still creative and loves good food and presentation. He said it was edible but didn’t have the flare or wonderful flavours created by the previous chef. The veg was dry and uninteresting. Unfortunately my lentil Spaghetti Bolognese was unrecognisable as such. I’m vegan and love the creativity of flavours in vegan cooking but I couldn’t eat it, as hungry as I was. The ‘sauce’ was a tasteless, mix of overcooked lentils mixed into the spaghetti and topped with grated ‘red chedder’ Vegan cheese. Yuk! Not even vegan parmesan. I spoke to the lovely new owner who was attentive and very willing to resolve things. She bought me another dish of ‘spaghetti bolognese’. This time the sauce was on top of the spaghetti but the texture and taste were the same and again topped with ‘red cheddar’ and even more bizarrely with coriander leaves??? I really appreciated her concern but gave up and left. That is not the work of a ‘chef’ or someone who knows about...

The first time I visited England, my mother in law told me that Toucan will have everything I need. We went there for chai, sandwiches then I did plenty of shopping in the downstairs shop. 7 visits later, here’s my review. We love everything! The menu is great. The tofu burger is amazing! The chai was great. They have a Christmas catering menu which has plenty of vegan items on it (that the whole family loves not just the veggies!). The shop is definitely my favorite, small but has everyyyything you need! The stock all my favorite brands; from vitamins to chocolates, gluten free items, tofu and tempeh, teas, cosmetics, allll of it. I’m sure you’re thinking all shops have that, what I’m referring to is the choice of the brands they stock! We also highly recommend the bread they stock as well as the items in the downstairs fridge. The pasties and desserts are great! It’s definitely out go to whenever...

I visited The Toucan Cafe for the first time, on a spontaneous trip down to Minehead, today. I absolutely loved my falafel fiesta, oat-milk latte and "heartbeat" (mango, beetroot and carrot) smoothie. It was all so fresh, filling and tasty. It is very rare that I come across a place that caters to vegetarians (everything is vegetarian) and vegans, so I was extremely happy to find this place. Having multiple milk alternatives to choose from, rather than only providing soya is one of the things that makes The Toucan Cafe stand out amongst other places for me. The staff are very friendly and accommodating. The cafe is bright, warm and comfortable. If I lived closer to Minehead, I'd visit The...