Herbies

Walk up North Street towards the cathedral quarter and you'll find Herbies tucked away doing something genuinely useful: making you forget you're eating vegetables. This isn't the worthy salad bar approach—it's confident cooking that happens to be meat-free. The kitchen knows what it's doing, whether that's a properly built tagine or something with proper umami depth. You'll spot regulars at the wooden tables, groups of friends lingering over wine, the occasional sceptical omnivore who came for one meal and now keeps coming back. It's the kind of place that's been doing its thing long enough to have figured out exactly what works.