Our Story · Canggu, since 2018
We don’t start with vegan. We start with food.
Zee and Alex opened iam VEGAN BABE in Canggu on 12 September 2018. The food comes first.
Where a dish starts
- A craving
- A classic we love
- A childhood memory
- A plate from our travels
Most of our menu begins with a craving. A classic we love. Something remembered from childhood. A plate we ate while travelling and couldn’t stop thinking about. Zee develops most of the dishes together with Alex, testing and tasting until the plant-based version is every bit as satisfying as the one we remember. Nothing goes on the menu just because it’s vegan. It goes on because we want to eat it again.
Made in our kitchen
We make almost everything here. From scratch, in our kitchen.
Our dishes are built from ingredients, not ready-made restaurant components. It takes longer, and it’s a big part of why the food tastes the way it does.
We could take shortcuts. We simply don’t.
Made here
- Breads
- Cakes
- Cheeses
- Pickles
- Sauces
- Dressings
- Mayo
- Ketchup
- Batters
- Breading
- Almond milk
- Coconut milk
- We cook with extra-virgin olive oil and grapeseed oil.
- Our savoury sauces have no added refined sugar; we sweeten them with monk fruit.
- Our cakes are made with raw cane sugar.
Since 12 September 2018
2018 to today
We opened in September 2018, kept going through the COVID years and haven’t stopped evolving since. What began as a breakfast and brunch spot is now a restaurant from the first coffee of the morning to dinner.
Come hungry.
Genuinely great food that happens to be fully plant-based. You don’t have to be vegan to be a Vegan Babe.