Tendril - A (mostly) Vegan Kitchen & Bar
Chef Rishim Sachdeva's '(mostly) vegan' kitchen and cocktail bar near Oxford Circus — inventive, vegetable-forward small plates (standout gnocchi and Chinatown potatoes), an allium-free menu and a moody, intimate room.
Why it's listed: Tendril — (mostly) vegan kitchen, vegan_restaurant type, Michelin-noted rep
Profile last updated 15 July 2026.
The business claims it
Structured facts from the listing and website.
- Cuisine style
- Modern, seasonal, vegetable-forward plant-based cooking“high quality vegan food, especially the kind that doesn't try to be a version of non-vegan food”
— reviews - Kitchen-wide dietary regime
- vegetarian“Tendril - A (mostly) Vegan Kitchen & Bar (predominantly vegan; some dairy items like feta/brie noted)”
— displayName - Alcohol policy
- licensed“All the cocktails we tried were super tasty too”
— reviews - Menu rotation
- Changing seasonal set and a la carte menus“The winter pickles were a complete affront to the concept of a pickle”
— reviews - Price band
- premium“looking through the Michelin app... The value proposition of the set lunch is great”
— reviews
Customers reveal it
Recurring signal mined from real reviews — with receipts.
- Atmosphere as customers describe it
- Dark, moody and intimate — deliberately dim lighting, retro-chic room“In a word: dark. So dark in fact, that even my 20/20 vision was defeated”
— reviews - Occasions customers use it for
- special occasions · team lunches · dates · impressing non-vegans“trying to arrange a team lunch... all of us were suitably impressed”
— reviews - Dishes customers name repeatedly
- gnocchi · Chinatown potatoes · sticky toffee pudding · butter bean parfait · seaweed tempura“this was the best gnocchi I have ever eaten... order this dish”
— reviews - Recurring caveats in reviews
- very dim lighting · slow service“they dimmed it even further... dining by echolocation”
— reviews - Service character as customers describe it
- Warm, attentive front-of-house, though service can be slow“The service (to order, get the bill) was sadly quite slow but the food was worth the wait”
— reviews - Value for money as customers see it
- Set lunch seen as strong value; a la carte pricier“The value proposition of the set lunch is great”
— reviews
Only the owner knows it
Questions we hold for the kitchen itself. Unanswered until they answer.
- Other strict-diet protocols
- Offers a dedicated allium-free (no onion/garlic) menu“they offer an allium-free menu, which is incredibly thoughtful and still full of flavor”
— reviews
We're holding 9 questions for the owner — families & kids, best occasions & the vibe, vegan, coeliac & allergy options, why choose you, groups, private hire & catering, booking or walk-in?, good to know before you visit, must-order dishes, made in-house & sourcing — and will publish the answers here once confirmed.