Portershed - Christchurch

This place has fantastic vegan options, from savoury to sweets and makes a lot of great stuff in-house. Some the sweets really do leave you wondering how it's actually vegan!!

I cannot praise this restaurant enough. It is 100% vegan and offers food at incredibly competitive prices. We bought some date paste and tried their chocolate, both of which were delightful. Despite the basic menu, their vegan burger was surprisingly tasty. The cupcake was also delicious. Overall, I highly recommend this place. Just go and try it for yourself!

My daughter and I loved this place, I even ordered their produce boxes regularly to help support them while lockdown happened. Then they posted a horrible post on Facebook about how they were against the mandates to keep people like me safe (am immunocompromised). The owner seemed to think that my safety and other vulnerable peoples ' safety was actually an attack on their own 'freedoms '. They even had the ignorance to use the word discrimination as though they were the actual victims. People were dying around them but because they had to wear masks and get immunised to continue to be open and help protect vulnerable humans they were the victims? It would be hilarious if it wasn 't so sad, disgusting and disappointing. I 've never been in since and won 't ever be back. I had to lock myself inside my house for months on end because of people who wouldn 't wear masks, get vaccinated or follow the simple health guidelines there is no way I would ever support this company or the owner again. Your 'freedoms ' aren 't more important than other peoples ' lives.

Adored the chutney that came with the sausage roll and the coffee was nice too. I hope the UK’s vegan product prices make it to NZ too as certainly more accessibleAs for the fresh sausage roll, that was a good price and would highly recommend. It would have been nice to have had a few extra breakfast choices aside from the baked goods. Updated from previous review on 2022-11-08

I frequently dine at the Portershed. I am a fan of their delicious food and consistently exceptional and friendly service. I often invite colleagues and friends to join me there because I appreciate the inviting atmosphere and, of course, their wonderful cuisine.