Freedom Cakes Café: the most fun and colorful 'diner' to celebrate World Vegan Day

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Panoramic view of the charming local Freedom Cakes Café, in the Barrio de las Letras, calle Cádiz, 7 in Madrid.

Vegetarian restaurants: when not serving meat was insane

Not so long ago, the

was the weirdo of the group of friends.

Nobody wanted to go out to dinner with him because he limited the meeting to the table and his menu options were reduced to a salad in which he often had to explain to the waiter that chicken and bacon were not ingredients to contemplate.

Today, however, practically anyone knows what it is to be

(unlike vegetarian, in addition to meat, seafood and fish, they also do not take products derived from animals, such as eggs, honey or milk) and

.

The exclusive restaurants for them -but where everyone can also eat- have multiplied and it is a trend not only for moral and environmental reasons, but some people use a flexible modality to reduce the consumption of meat, especially meat. the Red.

All this transformation has been lived in their own flesh, but never on the plate,

, a 33-year-old chemical engineer from Madrid, and her partner dedicated to music, Adrián Hidalgo.

She was a vegetarian for a decade, now

and have set up their own place with that nod to the freedom of choice:

.

"I chose this name after launching the first vegan pastry shop because realizing my dream freed me from a career that didn't really fill me, although it is true that the knowledge of emulsions for recipes has come in handy. I loved what I loved. it was to create cakes free of ingredients of animal origin. And now we have moved to the Barrio de Las Letras and expanded the concept with an

American

with a salty offer all day, "says the entrepreneur excited about the new adventure.

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In fact, this colorful place that seems taken from the Pantone catalog and would delight any

is not a

vegan restaurant and the tandem jokes with the idea of ​​being conceived "for

", that is, vegans who are not only they like to eat green.

"

if they are not told, although it has also happened to us that people hear the word vegan and decide to leave," they are sincere.

They have a fake seitan bacon that would pass for pork, a beet burger in which it seems to drip meat or oat milk that tastes very similar to that of cow, because they do not give up those flavors.

Another myth, they admit, is that vegan is not fattening.

"

. Although they feel better because they are lighter, of course they are fattening," acknowledges Izquierdo, who has always felt very supported by her boy to launch this business.

"He saw me making my sweets and said: 'If what really fills you is the pastry shop, you're wasting time'. And so it prompted me to jump," she describes looking at him with a smile.

Always innovating in the kitchen, he says that the most difficult thing is the asphalt of Madrid, "because the cakes can be disassembled on the way when they are to take away".

Most satisfyingly,

fun and delicious

" and get excited.

"Vegan is all we do and there are options for celiacs."

He reveals some of his tricks to achieve textures: "It is a matter of proportions. In the pancakes, for example, we use crushed and gelatinous flax seed. Soy milk is a very good emulsifier. Whole cane sugar, as it has molasses, gives caramel flavor. We use cocoa, strawberries, dates ... All simple and natural, ingredients that you could find in the supermarket. "

And they avoid the use of plastic: the straws are made of steel, in line with their conviction to protect the environment.

LAS VEGAS IN MADRID

From selling cakes online to professionalizing a passion with a very rogue air, the result of the objects collected during their honeymoon on Route 66 after getting married in Las Vegas.

"The decor is light-hearted, creative, teasing and a little eccentric,

, the hippie aesthetic, the Woodstock festival or the rock of artists like Jenis Joplin or Jefferson Airplane."

We cannot think of a more perfect place than this place, located on Cádiz street, number 7 in Madrid, to celebrate

.

A day that we owe to Louise Wallis, President of the Vegan Society of the United Kingdom, who in 1994 established this celebration on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the founding of this organization that fights for respect for animals.

Celebration of social awareness that, with all the intention, coincides with Halloween, the feast of the dead.

In

promises to be fun and gory ...

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<a href="https://freedomcakes.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> FREEDOM CAKES CAFÉ </a>

Address:

C / Cádiz, 7. 28012, Madrid.

Telephone:

91 074 13 47.

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